At least 17 Palestinians, including children, were killed yesterday in an Israeli strike on a school in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where people displaced by the fighting were sheltering, Nuseirat’s Al-Awda hospital said.

A former model has accused Donald Trump of groping her after the two were introduced by sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday it can no longer provide first responder services in the north of the territory, accusing Israeli forces of threatening to “bomb and kill” its crews.

The proportion of women killed in conflict in 2023 doubled compared to the previous year, according to a UN report that denounced “oppressive patriarchal” structures and called out an increase in sexual violence in war zones.

The United States does not want Israeli actions in Lebanon to lead to a protracted campaign, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday, more than a month since Israel began a major offensive against Hezbollah in the country.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday more than 770 people have been killed in the north of the territory since Israel launched an assault aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping there.

Israel conducted at least 17 raids overnight that levelled six buildings, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency, sending a huge ball of fire enveloped in a tower of smoke soaring into the night sky.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a BRICS summit on Thursday that the Middle East was on the verge of full-scale war.

A Paris conference on aid for conflict-stricken Lebanon raised around $1 billion yesterday but saw little diplomatic progress as fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told BRICS leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the world needed peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan

The outbreak has sickened people across the US West and Midwest, with 10 hospitalized due to serious complications

Bibi was bailed on a separate pending case yesterday

Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday it can no longer provide first responder services in the north of the territory, accusing Israeli forces of threatening to "bomb and kill" its crews

More than 150,000 to flee their homes in the Philippines

Pakistan's government denies being unfair in Khan's treatment and its election commission denies the elections were rigged

Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a "fascist" Wednesday and warned that her US election rival was "increasingly unstable" as she addressed his reported praise for Adolf Hitler at a town hall event

Kamala Harris said Tuesday that America is “absolutely” ready to elect its first woman president but downplayed her historic bid, saying she simply wants to turn the page for a nation “exhausted” by Donald Trump.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed yesterday for a halt to fighting between Israel and militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, but heavy Israeli air strikes on a large historic Lebanese port city demonstrated that there was no respite.

Thousands of North Korean soldiers are in Russia for training, but their ultimate mission is unclear, a senior US official said yesterday, confirming warnings from South Korea.

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday approved the selection of the next chief justice, who was chosen through a new process that the government’s opponents say is designed to undermine judicial independence.