Middle East

Yemen’s Houthis confirm 17 fighters killed in US-led strikes

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Seventeen Houthi fighters have been killed in the United States and United Kingdom attacks, the Yemeni group has announced through its official media, following public funerals in the capital Sanaa.
Europe

NATO chief says Russia prepares its economy for a long war

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Moscow prepares its economy for a long war, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said, calling on Europe to increase its arms production to support Ukraine and prevent “potentially decades of confrontation” with Russia.
Middle East

Gaza death toll tops 28k with nearly 68k wounded

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At least 117 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from Israeli onslaught on the besieged enclave to more than 28,000, the territory's Health Ministry announced on Saturday.
Middle East

Israel’s credit rating downgraded on war risks: Report

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International ratings agency has cut Israel’s credit score to A2, the sixth-highest investment grade, and kept its outlook as “negative”, meaning further downgrades are possible.
Middle East

Hamas urges UN to “convene immediately” over Israeli threats to attack Rafah

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The Hamas-run government media office on Saturday called on the United Nations Security Council to “convene immediately” following threats from Israel over a possible invasion into Rafah, a city in the south of the Gaza strip close to the Egyptian border.
Middle East

UNICEF warns Gaza witnessing worst level of child malnutrition worldwide

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Spokesperson for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) James Elder has told Al Jazeera the besieged Gaza Strip has the worst levels of malnutrition of any place in the world.
Middle East

Israeli PM directs military to draw up plan to evacuate one million Gazans from Rafah as offensive looms

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the Israeli military to plan for the “evacuation of the population” from Rafah, his office announced in a statement on Friday, ahead of an anticipated ground assault on the southern Gaza city. Around 28,000 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israel's offensive against Gaza.
Europe

Ukraine’s top general dismissed for disobeying Pentagon: Report

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General Valery Zaluzhny was fired as the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces partly because he had clashed with the Pentagon about how to conduct the counteroffensive against Russia last summer, Politico has reported.
Europe

Ukraine running out of ammunition: Report

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Ukrainian frontline units have resorted to rationing artillery rounds because US supplies have stopped and the EU has been unable to deliver on its promises, a Financial Times report has claimed.
Middle East

UN experts say deadly Israeli West Bank hospital raid may amount to war crime

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An Israeli undercover operation on a hospital in the occupied West Bank last month may amount to a war crime, five United Nations special rapporteurs have stated.
Europe

Putin says Ukraine is ‘artificial state’

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Modern Ukraine is a country that was artificially created by the actions of the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin after World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin told American journalist Tucker Carlson on Friday.
Middle East

Hamas says Netanyahu seeking to prolong war, mislead Israelis

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The Israeli government and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu want in every possible way to “mislead domestic public opinion and prolong the aggression” against Gaza, a member of the Palestinian group Hamas’s politburo has stated.
Asia

Pakistan shuts borders, suspends mobile services on voting day

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Pakistan temporarily shut some of its land borders and suspended mobile phone services on Thursday as it beefed up security for voters in a general election that has seen a surge in militant violence in the Asian country.
Int'l Relations

UN chief warns world facing ‘age of chaos’, citing Gaza war

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is entering into an “age of chaos” as the UN Security Council remains sharply divided over Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
Middle East

Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal, vows ‘total victory’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shot down a Hamas-proposed plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, telling reporters that “there is no other solution besides absolute victory” over the Palestinian movement.
Europe

Aliyev re-elected as Azerbaijan’s president for a fifth consecutive term

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has secured a fifth consecutive term in elections on Wednesday, official results showed, an expected outcome after his country's historic victory over Armenian separatists last year.
Middle East

Israeli soldiers filmed ‘cheering Gaza destruction’: Report

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Hundreds of videos filmed and shared by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip show troops bulldozing houses and mocking Palestinian victims, according to research by the New York Times. More than 27,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza since early October last year.
Sport

Qatar defeats Iran to reach Asian Cup final

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Hosts and defending champions Qatar edged Iran 3-2 in a thrilling Asian Cup semi-final on Wednesday at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, setting up a title clash with Jordan.
Asia

Explosions near Pakistan candidates’ offices kill several on election eve

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Two blasts near electoral candidates' offices in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday, officials confirmed, raising concerns over security on the eve of a general election.
Middle East

Iraqi PM: US-led military coalition will ultimately wind down its presence in the country

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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has stated the US-led military coalition, purportedly formed to fight the Daesh terrorist group, will eventually end its mission in the Arab country.
Local

Iran Leader grants clemency to more than 2,800 inmates

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has approved a proposal to grant amnesty to over 2,800 Iranian prisoners on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution’s victory and the Eid of Mab'ath.
Middle East

Hamas outlines three-phase ceasefire for Gaza Strip: Report

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Palestinian Hamas movement has unveiled a three-phase ceasefire plan in the Gaza Strip, including a complete withdrawal of Israeli soldiers, reconstruction of the infrastructure of the besieged enclave and the exchange of hostages and bodies of the dead, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing the draft document.
Science and Technology

Iranian VP says Iran manufactured world’s largest ozone reactor used in drinking water treatment

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Iran has manufactured the world's largest ozone reactor that would generates ozone nanobubbles for drinking water treatment, Vice-President for Science and Technology Ruhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi has stated.
Middle East

UN envoy in Iraq to resign within weeks, says country ‘on a knife edge’

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Head of the United Nations political mission in Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert has told the UN Security Council she expects to step down at the end of May, adding the Arab country was “on a knife edge”.
Middle East

20% of Israeli captives in Gaza ‘are dead’: Report

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The Israeli military has concluded that over one fifth of the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza are dead, according to a report by the New York Times daily.
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