A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s northern Prayagraj city, officials said Sunday. There were no injuries. The blaze was caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder and was contained by firefighters, police said. Images from the sprawling tent city […]
Israel on Sunday said a truce with Hamas began in Gaza at 0915 GMT, nearly three hours after initially scheduled, following a last-minute delay on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the delay, Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed eight people. A statement from Netanyahu’s office, issued less than an hour […]
A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, according to an official report Sunday as efforts were underway to evacuate thousands of villagers living near the rumbling mountain. Mount Ibu, on the remote island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, sent a column of smoke up to four kilometres […]
Billionaire Elon Musk has tweeted about Tulip Siddiq who resigned as the UK’s anti-corruption minister amid a controversy over links to her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “The Labour minister for child welfare shields the predators and their anti-corruption minister is corrupt,” the billionaire posted on Twitter on Wednesday, retweeting a post of […]
The Israel-Hamas deal was made possible by 18-hour days and a “remarkable” partnership between Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Mideast envoys — but even then it seemed it might come apart at the last minute. In the final four days of talks, Biden’s pointman Brett McGurk was joined in the region by Trump’s envoy, Steve […]
Israel’s cabinet was expected to meet Thursday to approve a ceasefire and hostage-release deal with Hamas, Israeli media reported, a day after mediators announced an agreement they hope will lead to a permanent end to the Gaza war. The truce would take effect on Sunday and involve the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, after which […]
South Korean authorities have arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, making him the first government head in the country to face such ordeal, ending weeks of standoff with his security team and supporters. A previous arrest attempt failed on 3 January as Yoon’s security forces resisted police, and the Wednesday morning attempt succeeded only after clashes erupted […]
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