At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on makeshift tents housing displaced people in a designated humanitarian safe zone in southern Gaza, local medics and news organisations report. The predawn attack on Thursday in the al-Mawasi area – which Israel’s military declared a “safe zone” early on in its war on …
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Vast presence of law enforcement at the scene of a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street on January 1, 2025. — Reuters/Stephen Lew-Imagn NEW ORLEANS: The United States saw 2025 begin with a violent attack, after a man drove deliberately at high speed into a crowd of New Year’s revellers in New Orleans. The attack occurred at the …
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People cross a street amid an alert for heatwave in Shanghai, China August 10, 2023. — Reuters Chinese meteorological data shows 2024 was the warmest year for the country since comparable records began more than six decades ago, the second straight year in which milestones were broken. The national average temperature stood at 10.92 degrees Celsius (51.66 Fahrenheit) last year, …
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Debris is left along Bourbon Street after a pickup truck was driven into a large crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, US, January 1, 2025. — Reuters Attack injures about 30 people including two police officers. Truck hits people celebrating New Year’s Day in French Quarter. Police search for accomplices as they investigate possible links to Daesh. …
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The remains of a covered Tesla Cybertruck, that burned at the entrance of Trump Tower, stand behind yellow tape, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 1, 2025. — Reuters A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring several others, leaving Tesla CEO Elon Musk upset who said nothing like this …
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Police and security personnel stand near the scene where a gunman opened fire at a restaurant and killed several people in Cetinje, Montenegro, January 1, 2025. — Reuters Shooting takes place near Montenegro’s capital Cetinje. Montenegrin PM declares three days of national mourning. President prays for early recovery of the wounded. BELGRADE: In a tragic incident near Montenegro’s historical capital, …
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A view of the flags of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Tehran, Iran June 17, 2023. — Reuters Saudi Arabia has executed six Iranians sentenced for drug trafficking, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) announced on Wednesday. The Iranians were put to death in Dammam, on the kingdom’s Gulf coast, for having “clandestinely introduced hashish” into Saudi Arabia, the Ministry …
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South Korean investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil said Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis. The plane was carrying 181 people from Thailand on Sunday when it issued a mayday call and belly-landed before hitting a barrier and …
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A driver crashed his pickup truck into a New Orleans crowd celebrating New Year’s Day and opened fire, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 35, in an attack the FBI said it was investigating as an act of terrorism. “This man was trying to run over as many people as he could,” Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said …
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A representational image of a baby’s feet being held by a woman. — AFP/File Exciting new things are on their way as we welcome the year 2025 including the birth of a new generation — Gen Beta — with its members being born from this year through 2039. Many from Gen Beta will live to the 22nd century, witnessing vast …
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