Sun 17 November 2024: A Lebanese security source said Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif was killed in an Israeli strike Sunday in central Beirut that hit the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Baath party. “The strike on Ras al-Nabaa killed Hezbollah media relations official Mohammed Afif,” the security source said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine. Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of miners feared trapped underground in an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa. Local campaigners […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly compiling a list of former and current senior US military officers directly involved in the “disrespectful” withdrawal from Afghanistan to determine whether they could face court martial. Trump’s team is exploring the possibility of forming a commission to investigate the withdrawal from Afghanistan […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. At least two people were injured, and over […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: California has reported the first US case of mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – that is part of a new outbreak. The state’s department of health, the CDPH, said the new case was from the Clade I strain – different from the Clade II strain that has been in circulation […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: The babies died from burns and suffocation after a blaze swept through a neonatal intensive care unit in Jhansi. A fire ripped through the neonatal unit of a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborns and injuring 17, the authorities said. Emergency responders rescued 38 newborns from the ward, which housed […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: US pharmaceuticals group Eli Lilly is to conduct trials of its weight-loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound in the UK. The United Kingdom will study whether the use of weight loss drugs could get people back to work. UK Health Minister Wes Streeting announced last month that US drug manufacturer Eli Lilly […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: The Ukrainian president said on Friday US President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration could help bring the war with Russia to a faster conclusion, state news agency Ukrinform reported. In an interview with public broadcaster Suspilne, Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed Ukraine-US relations and reflected on past conversations with Trump about resolving the conflict, which continues since 2022. […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Breaking a long-standing controversial taboo in Israeli society, Tel Aviv on Friday announced the gradual enlistment of 7,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, set to start this weekend, Anadolu Agency reports. According to a Defence Ministry statement, the conscription orders will be issued progressively, beginning on Sunday, following military evaluations. Defence […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held on Friday their first phone conversation since December 2022, and discussed prospects for resolving the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. Initiated by the German side, the discussion included “a detailed and candid exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine,” according to the […]
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