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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip :The little boy is in tears and, understandably, irritable. Diarrhea has plagued him for half of his brief life. He is dehydrated and so weak. Attached to his tiny left hand is a yellow tube...

GAZA CITY : Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday that Israeli bombardment killed at least 24 people since midnight in the war-ravaged territory, which has been under an Israeli aid blockade for nearly two months. Israel resumed its military campaign...

JERUSALEM : Israeli police on Wednesday closed the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway and evacuated residents along the route as brushfires broke out again in an area ravaged by blazes a week ago. Communities located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Jerusalem...

MADRID : Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds trying in vain to get a signal as a Spain-wide power outage plunged the country into chaos on Monday. Carlos Condori, one of millions of...

TEHRAN : Fires were still blazing on Sunday after a massive explosion tore through Iran's largest commercial port the day before, killing at least 25 people and leaving hundreds more injured, according to local media. The blast occurred Saturday at...

ROME : US President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine were "very close" to a ceasefire deal, and urged the two sides to meet and finalize it. "A good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine....

JERUSALEM : The Israeli military announced that a soldier was killed on Saturday in the fighting in Gaza, the first fatality since a ceasefire with Hamas collapsed in mid-March. The military said Sergeant Major Ghaleb Sliman Al-Nasasra, 35, fell during...

DHAKA : Bangladesh and China today renewed their pledges to open up new avenues of cooperation connecting Yunnan Province and Chittagong in various sectors. The discussion was taken place when visiting Governor of Chinese Yunnan Province Wang Yubo met with...

UNITED NATIONS, United States, April 18, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - More than one million children in Haiti are suffering "critical" food shortages as a result of chronic violence, displacement and restricted access to humanitarian aid, the UN children's agency said...

PARIS :  France hailed talks on the Ukraine war between top US and European officials on Thursday during which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio again pressed a US peace plan. President Emmanuel Macron's office said the talks launched a...