Israel carried out a major wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight in response to some 150 rockets fired at its territory, leaving three Palestinians including a toddler dead in another severe flare-up of violence, officials said on Thursday. Most of the rockets fired by Palestinian militants landed in open areas, but at least […]
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Wave of Israeli strikes hit Gaza after rocket barrage, toddler killed
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Saudi Arabia rules out mediation in Canada spat
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday there was no room for mediation in the kingdom’s deepening diplomatic dispute with Canada, and that Ottawa knew what it needed to do to “fix its big mistake”. “There is nothing to mediate. A mistake has been made and a mistake should be corrected,” Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told […]
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Indonesian govt seeks food, water for 156,000 displaced by quake
TAN JUNG (Lombok, Indonesia): The death toll from a powerful earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok rose above 130 on Wednesday, as authorities appealed for food, clean water and medical help for some 156,000 people forced from their homes. Many frightened, displaced villagers are staying under tents or tarpaulins dotted along roads or in […]
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Police rescue 24 girls from Indian care home
NEW DELHI: Police have rescued 24 girls and shut down a care home that had been operating illegally in northern India after a youngster living there fled and complained to officers about sexual exploitation. They arrested four people on suspicion of trafficking and closed the home that has been operating in Deoria district in northern […]
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Pakistani student’s nose broken in attack in Australia
A Pakistani student was attacked by a group of men and women in Newcastle, Australia, the Newcastle Herald reported on Tuesday. Twenty-year-old Abdullah Qaiser had his nose broken on Saturday night by a man wearing a knuckle duster after his car was stopped at the University of Newcastle’s Callaghan campus. Qaiser was driving to a […]
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US, EU seek details of arrests in Saudi Arabia, but dodge Canada spat
BRUSSELS: The United States and the European Union said on Tuesday that they are seeking details about the arrest of women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia, but they sidestepped a sensitive diplomatic dispute over the crackdown between the ultraconservative kingdom and Canada. Describing both countries as “close partners” of the US, the US State Department […]