Tue 23 January 2024: Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have destroyed 1,000 mosques since Oct. 7, according to local authorities. “The reconstruction of these mosques will cost around $500 million,” Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs said in a statement. There are an estimated 1,200 mosques in the Gaza Strip. According to the […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: Israel’s army has revised up its death toll and says a total of 21 soldiers were killed in an attack in central Gaza in the last 24 hours. It makes it the largest single loss of life for the Israeli military since the war began. The chief spokesperson for the IDF, […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: Several people have been injured after homes collapsed due to a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region early Tuesday, state-run media reported. The quake’s epicenter was at a depth of 22 kilometers (13 miles) in the mountainous border region of Wushi County. Tremors were felt across […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: The proposal, according to Axios, would involve a multiphase deal that would see the release in stages of more than 130 captives held in Gaza in return for an up to two-month ceasefire and the release of an as yet undetermined number of Palestinian prisoners. The report, citing two Israeli officials, […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: More than 13,000 people have been killed and 26,000 others injured in the ongoing conflict in Sudan since last year, the United Nations humanitarian office said Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. Sudan has been mired by fighting between the army, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the country’s ruling Sovereign Council, […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Storm Isha caused travel disruptions on Monday, leaving tens of thousands of people without power in the UK and Ireland due to its strong winds and heavy rain. Northeast England had gusts as high as 99 mph (159 kph) as the entire United Kingdom was under a weather alert for the […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: The Palestinian group Hamas has said there were “faults” in the October 7 attack it led on southern Israel, but claimed its fighters only targeted Israeli soldiers and people carrying weapons. In a 16-page report titled “Our Narrative” and published on Sunday, Hamas, which governs Gaza, said it wanted to “clarify” […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Russia’s Leningrad area, which has a fuel export terminal that was disrupted on Sunday by a fire that Ukrainian media alleged was caused by a Ukrainian drone assault, declared that important infrastructure had been placed on high alert, Reuters reported, “In all districts of the Leningrad region, a high alert regime […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by Hamas to end the war and release captives in exchange for withdrawing Israeli forces, releasing prisoners and accepting the armed group’s governance of Gaza. Netanyahu, who is under growing domestic pressure to bring the captives home, said that accepting Hamas’s conditions […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic Mughal-era mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya. Monday’s consecration of the temple, dedicated to Lord Ram, embodies the triumph of Modi’s muscular Hindu nationalist politics and marks an unofficial start to his re-election campaign in […]
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