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May 13, 2024 4:05 PM

Israeli forces step up attacks on Gaza’s Jabalia camp, Rafah

Israeli tanks, under cover from heavy fire from air and ground, pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, residents and Hamas media said, while airstrikes hammered Rafah in the south. In Jabalia, tanks were trying to advance ...

May 13, 2024 1:14 PM

Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupts, spewing ash clouds

Indonesia's Ibu volcano on the remote island of Halmahera erupted on Monday (May 13) morning, spewing thick columns of grey ash several kilometres into the sky, the country's volcanology agency said. The volcano erupted at 9.12 a.m. (0012 GMT) for a...

May 13, 2024 11:51 AM

Ukrainian missile kills 15 at apartment block, Russia says

At least 15 people were killed and scores injured on Sunday when a section of a Russian apartment block collapsed after being struck by fragments of a Soviet-era missile, launched by Ukraine and shot down by Russia, Russian officials said. In one of...

May 13, 2024 12:31 PM

Putin removes long-term ally Sergei Shoigu as defence minister

Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine....

May 13, 2024 10:47 AM

Western Canada blazes cause evacuations, air quality concerns

The season's first major wildfires have spread to roughly 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in British Columbia and warned of poor air quality across provinces. I...

May 13, 2024 12:31 PM

First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies

A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said. "The Mass General transplant team is deeply saddened at ...

May 12, 2024 6:45 PM

Powerful Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback

Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political comeback two years after a failed and ultimately deadly high-stakes move to form a government without his Shi'ite rivals, multiple sources said. His return...

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