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According to numbers from The Intercept, the latest strikes bring the total number of boats that have been destroyed to 53 and the total number of people who’ve been killed in the campaign to 178. “They’re murdering at a relentless pace,” Intercept reporter Nick Turse said in a post on X on Wednesday night.

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan told AFP on Thursday that the Lebanese government’s decision to hold direct negotiations with Israel was a “grave error”, urging Beirut to stop making concessions to Israel and the United States.

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The armed men reportedly evaded capture by escaping through the city’s sewer system.

US President Donald Trump announces a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, but lasting peace remains uncertain.

Towns and villages in southern Lebanon are being levelled by Israeli demolitions, satellite images and videos obtained by BBC Verify reveal.

The right wing clowns are handing China massive world power while they do Israel’s bidding, all at the expense of everyday Americans.

A court in Kazakhstan convicted 19 activists after a protest against Beijing’s crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region last year, in what experts and advocates said was the largest move yet by the Kazakh government to silence criticism at Beijing’s behest.

Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

Agents detained Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS

WASHINGTON — Military planning for a possible Pentagon-led operation in Cuba is quietly ramping up, in case President Donald Trump gives an order to intervene there, USA TODAY has learned.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration’s top achievements.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.

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China’s roughly five-year property slump has squeezed local government finances and depressed consumption, acting as a drag on the nation’s broader economy.

Washington (United States) (AFP) – YouTube has terminated a channel belonging to a pro-Iran group producing viral Lego-themed AI videos that ridicule US President Donald Trump, the Google-owned platform said Wednesday, sparking online criticism.

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The health of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is critical after she suffered a heart attack last month, supporters warned on Wednesday.

A Taiwanese court on Wednesday handed jail terms ranging from four and a half years to eight and a half years to six former service members for spying for China.

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday that Iran will participate in the World Cup “for sure” despite its war with the United States.

The pledge is in addition to the EU’s €90 billion loan package, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

UN experts warned Tuesday that proposed French legislation to target antisemitism, nicknamed the PPL Yadan Bill, could jeopardize freedom of expression.

The president again criticized the government of the Caribbean country and reiterated his intention to maintain energy restrictions.

We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered.

The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and ExxonMobil are among the biggest beneficiaries of the bonanza, meaning key opponents of climate action continue to prosper.

Egypt’s Kayan for International Trade will supply apatite ore to fertiliser plants in Viet Nam run by Viet Nam National Chemical Group (Vinachem), leveraging its advantages in supply capacity, competitive pricing, and optimal logistics costs.

Lack of funding leaving police forces failing to keep pace with two-thirds annual increase in referrals, says report

Smoke warning for residents south of Viva oil refinery in Corio as Geelong mayor calls fire ‘unprecedented’

HSBC chief says price of Brent crude does not reflect real-world prices in Asia, when insurance, shipping and scarcity are taken into account

Stern may not have got his wish, but the Zionist entity has gone one better — it has become the closest modern equivalent to the Third Reich

The recent US-Israeli aggression on Iran has exposed the crackdown on freedom of expression in many Arab states across West Asia, particularly those hosting US military bases.

The change in Hungary’s government could help unlock €90bn for Ukraine and give a “new push” for it to join the European Union, the bloc’s expansion chief said Tuesday. Marta Kos, speaking on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank spring meetings, described the Hungarian election on Sunday – which saw long-ruling nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán defeated – as a “big win for Europe.”

IDF soldier confesses happily killing Palestinian babies, claiming they’re “future threats.” An MSAD agent boasts that the world “belongs to the Jews,” declares Jewish superiority, and justifies the atrocities.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb says he exchanges messages with Prime Minister Mark Carney almost every day.

Jawad Younes, 11, and his cousins were playing soccer in the lot between their houses, as they often did. His little brother, four-year-old Mehdi, had joined them but grew tired, so Jawad took him home and handed him off to their mother before returning to the game. Minutes later, an Israeli strike came.

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Newly declassified Israeli files reveal pre-state Zionist militias contacted Nazi Germany officials for help in establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as World War II raged.

China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea amid roiling ​tension with the Philippines over the disputed feature, satellite imagery obtained by Reuters shows.

Iran secretly acquired a Chinese ‌spy satellite in late 2024 that has allowed it to target U.S. military bases across the Middle East during the current war, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, an account Beijing dismissed as untrue.

More than 200 Iranian sailors left stranded in Sri Lanka after a US torpedo attack are returning home after being stuck in the country for more than a month.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday China ​had been an unreliable global partner during the Middle East war by hoarding oil supplies and limiting exports ‌of some goods, mirroring its actions with medical goods during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With just under two months until the start of the 2026 World Cup, it seems that FIFA executives have finally looked up at the horizon, seen the looming shitstorm, and are now scrambling to head it off. The Athletic reported on Tuesday that top FIFA heads have sought to convince Gianni Infantino to make a “president-to-president” appeal to Donald Trump and ask if he can find it in his heart of hearts to give his ICE jackboots a summer vacation.

Polish far-right MP sparks outrage by displaying Israeli flag with Nazi swastika in parliament, accusing Israel of genocide in controversial statement.

In 2019, Chinese diplomat Jiang Duan told UNHCR delegates in Geneva that “the experience in Xinjiang in this field can be introduced to other countries.” While “this field” referred to management of minoritized peoples, the “experience” he touted was China’s vast system of internment camps, so-called “vocational training centers,” targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples. Survivor testimony has implicated the camps in a systematic campaign of forced labor, cultural assimilation, political indoctrination, torture, and forced sterilization. The Uyghur Tribunal determined these abuses to constitute genocide, while the very body Jiang Duan addressed, UNHCR, found they may amount to crimes against humanity.

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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian strikes killed seven people, including a child, and wounded dozens across Ukraine on Tuesday, regional authorities said.