Daily Archives: 27 December، 2024

A baby froze to death overnight in Gaza as Israel and Hamas trade accusations of ceasefire delays

Muhamad Yehia JERUSALEM — A baby girl froze to death overnight in Gaza, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts that could wind down the 14-month war. The 3-week old baby was the third to die from the cold in Gaza’s tent camps in recent days, doctors …

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Muhamad Yehia A wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s main airport Thursday just as the World Health Organization’s director-general said he was about to board a flight there. One of the U.N. plane’s crew was wounded, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. The Israeli military …

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Iran restores access to WhatsApp and Google Play after they were banned amid protests

Muhamad Yehia TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s government on Tuesday said it had lifted a ban on access to WhatsApp and Google Play after more than two years, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report said the country’s Supreme Council of Cyber Space made the decision in a meeting …

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Japanese atomic bomb survivors say Nobel Peace Prize gives fresh impetus to disarmament push

Muhamad Yehia TOKYO (AP) — Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given them a fresh incentive to campaign for nuclear disarmament ahead of the 80th anniversary of the 1945 attacks. “I felt like I needed to work even harder on what …

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Haiti’s health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital

Muhamad Yehia PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post following a deadly gang attack on the largest public hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince. In a statement published on Thursday afternoon, Haiti’s transitional council named Justice Minister Patrick Pelissier as interim Health Minister until a replacement …

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What’s known about the brazen bombing that killed a top Russian general in Moscow

Muhamad Yehia The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his apartment building in Moscow was the boldest assassination yet of a top military officer and again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the capital. Some things to know about the attack and who is suspected …

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Russia arrests 4 suspects accused of plotting to kill top military officers on Ukraine’s orders

Muhamad Yehia MOSCOW — Russia’s top security agency said Thursday that it has arrested several suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior military officers, an announcement that follows the killing of a top Russian general last week. The Federal Security Service, a top KGB successor known …

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China and India agree to work on solution to their border dispute in the Himalayas

Muhamad Yehia BEIJING, China — China and India agreed Wednesday to work toward a solution to their long-running border dispute in the Himalayas after a military standoff that began with a deadly clash in 2020. The development follows a pact on border patrols the two Asian giants reached in October, which finally broke …

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