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At least 18 killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza mosque

The strike on the mosque, near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, came as the war between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian enclave approaches its first anniversary. ...

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Netanyahu says 'shame' on Macron for urging halt to arms supply to Israel

"As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilised countries should be standing firmly by Israel's side. Yet, President Macron and other Western leaders are now calling for arms embargoes against Israel. Shame on them," Netanyahu said in a statement issued by his office. ...

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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video-conference with the families of French hostages by the Hamas militants who had entered Israel from the Gaza Strip, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, October 20, 2023. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Pool

Macron criticises Israel on Gaza, Lebanon operations

Macron also criticised Netanyahu's decision to send troops into ground operations in Lebanon.

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An activist from the Animals Lebanon NGO arrives at a shelter carrying a cat abandoned by its owners who fled during Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs on Oct. 3, 2024.

Volunteers risk lives to retrieve pets from bombed out south Beirut

"The war is traumatising for both animals and people. They're being bombed every day, and they don't know what's happening."

9 months ago

Democratic presidential nominee and United States Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech during a campaign event at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, the US on Oct. 4, 2024.

In Michigan, Harris meets Arab American leaders angry over Israel

Harris' meeting on Friday comes on the heels of other efforts by her team this week, with her vice presidential pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, promised on a Zoom call on Thursday with Muslim voters that Muslims would have an equal role in a Harris administration.

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People hold a banner reading “The State Killed You“ during the funeral of environmental leader Juan Lopez in the municipality of Tocoa, department of Colon, Honduras, on Sept. 16, 2024. Juan Lopez, 46, was gunned down as he left church on Sept. 14 in the northeastern town of Tocoa, according to his widow Thelma Pena.

Honduras arrests environmentalist's alleged murderer

Juan Lopez, who campaigned against open-pit iron ore mining, was shot dead on Sept. 14 after leaving church in the northeastern town of Tocoa.

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United States President Joe Biden turns around to joke with a reporter as he leaves a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC on Oct. 4, 2024. Biden made a surprise appearance, his first in the briefing room since becoming president, to tout a positive job report and take questions from reporters.

Biden says 'not confident' of peaceful US election

Biden's warning came with lawmakers and analysts voicing concern over increasingly bellicose campaign language ahead of the vote.

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Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli air strike in Tulkarm camp in Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Oct. 4, 2024.

Deadly Israeli strike in West Bank shows how war is spreading

"There is no safe place for the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves," says the owner of a cafe that got destroyed in an Israeli air strike in the West Bank.

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A resident gathers supplies from a voluntary community-run relief center in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Cruso, North Carolina, the United States, on Oct. 3, 2024.

By mule and helicopter, volunteers deliver aid to Helene victims

One week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swaths of half a dozen states, untold thousands remained cut off around Asheville, North Carolina, with many roads impassable and telecommunications equipment damaged or destroyed.

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People fleeing Israeli bombardment in Lebanon unload their belongings from a van to continue their journey on foot along a road damaged by an Israeli strike in the area of Masnaa on the Lebanese side of the border crossing with Syria on Oct. 4, 2024.

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Evacuate now before too late, ministry warns Indonesians in Lebanon

Sixty-five Indonesian citizens have fled Lebanon since early August amid intensified Israeli military offensive in the country, with 25 of them have arrived in Jakarta.

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Japan has decided to help build a shelter on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture for residents to evacuate to in anticipation of a possible Taiwan contingency.

Japan PM warns 'today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia'

Ishiba made no direct reference to China, but Japan's relations with its neighbor have deteriorated in recent years as Beijing asserts its military presence around disputed territories in the region.

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United States President Joe Biden looks on as
he holds a press conference on November, 15, 2023, about his
meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the start of
the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in
Woodside, California, the US.

Biden does not believe there will be 'all-out-war' in Middle East

However, Biden said more needed to be done to avoid a Middle East war, as Israel's military hit Beirut with new air strikes in its battle against Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

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Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike targeting an area in Beirut's southern suburb late on October 3, 2024.

Israeli strike closes off road used to flee Lebanon to Syria

Hamieh said the strike hit inside Lebanese territory near the border crossing, creating a four-metre (12 feet) wide crater.

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People clean up the debris of destroyed and damaged buildings in the aftermath of bombardments carried out by Myanmar's military in Lashio in Myanmar's northern Shan State on September 24, 2024. Lashio is the largest urban center to fall to any of Myanmar's myriad ethnic minority armed groups who have been fighting the central authorities on and off for decades, but analysts say the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) will struggle to govern the strategic city.

Indonesia to host discussions on Myanmar conflict, diplomat says

The discussion on the bloody conflict raging in Myanmar, which has been ongoing since a coup in 2021, is set to take place just before ASEAN gathers in Laos for a leaders’ summit on Oct. 6 to 11.

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Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), reacts at a press conference after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on September 27, 2024. Former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan's next prime minister after winning the ruling party's leadership vote on September 27, 2024 the official count showed.

Japan PM warns 'today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia'

"Many fear that today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia. Why did deterrence not work in Ukraine?" Ishiba told parliament.

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Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system intercepts rockets fired from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, September 25, 2024.

What are Israel's Iron Dome, Slings and Arrows used against rockets and missiles?

The Israeli army said it intercepted a large number of the incoming missiles -- 180 according to the army, while Iran said it had launched 200.

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US President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation about his decision to not seek reelection, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2024.

US urgently tries to shape Israel's response to Iran

US President Joe Biden, who consulted with his G7 counterparts on Wednesday after the Islamic republic fired off about 200 ballistic missiles, set a clear red line for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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In this photo obtained from the US Navy, the guided missile destroyer USS Porter on March 22, 2003, launches a Tomahawk missile toward Iraq during the initial stages of shock and awe.

Philippines draws defence firms as military modernises amid South China Sea tension

From Lockheed Martin of the United States to Sweden's Saab, Israel's Rafael, and the India-Russia joint venture BrahMos, a total of 291 firms showcased military technology and weapons systems at an exhibition in Manila last week.

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A border policeman checks the documents of a woman carrying a baby, after she entered Syria from Lebanon via the Jusiyeh border crossing with Quseir in Syria's central Homs province on October 2, 2024. Lebanon said on October 2 that almost 240,000 people, mostly Syrians, have crossed to Syria since Israel began pounding the country last week with intense air strikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets.

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Jokowi orders immediate evacuation of Indonesians in Lebanon

Jakarta has so far repatriated 25 Indonesians in batches since early August after the embassy in Beirut set a level 1 alert for Lebanon.

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This picture taken from the West Bank city of Hebron shows projectiles above the Israeli city of Ashdod on Oct. 1, 2024. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said a missile attack underway against Israel on Oct. 1 was in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as that of the Hamas leader.

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Indonesia warns against large-scale war after Iran attacks Israel

The Foreign Ministry says that the country is deeply concerned about Iran's missile attack on Israel, saying it has escalated the conflict and threatens to create a larger war in the Middle East.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points at Tel Aviv on a map during a press conference at the Government Press Office (GPO) in Jerusalem on September 4, 2024.

Israel will launch retaliation that could target Iranian oil facilities: Axios

Israel threatened Wednesday to retaliate after Iran fired a barrage of missiles at its territory, with Tehran warning it would hit "all infrastructure" in Israel if it comes under attack.

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This picture shows projectiles being intercepted by Israel near the northern city of Baqa al-Gharbiya on October 1, 2024. Air raid sirens sounded in central Israel on October 1, the military said, a day after the army launched ground operations into southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah positions.

Iran says attack on Israel is over

Washington said it would work with longtime ally Israel to make sure Iran faced "severe consequences" for Tuesday's attack, which Israel said involved more than 180 ballistic missiles.

9 months ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and his Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin attend an official welcoming ceremony on May 16, 2024, in
Beijing. In a joint press conference, Putin called for a political solution to Ukraine
while Xi proposed a two-state solution to the war in Gaza.

Xi tells Putin ready to 'expand' ties: state media

Xi said China was "ready to join Putin to constantly expand all-round pragmatic cooperation between (our) two countries", state news agency Xinhua said.

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World calls for restraint after Iran strikes Israel

Tehran said the attack on Tuesday -- which took place as Israel said it was mounting a ground offensive against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon -- was in response to the killings of Iran-backed militant leaders.

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Members of Israel's Home Front Command and police forces inspect a crater left by an exploded projectile at a heavily-damaged school building in Israel's southern city of Gedera on October 1, 2024, after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in response to the killings of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and other Iran-backed militants. Reports said Iran fired between 150 and 200 missiles in the attack, the country's second on Israel after a missile and drone attack in April in response to a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

US, Israel warn of response to Iranian missile attack

Israel vowed it would make Iran "pay" for the attack, which it said saw 180 missiles fired at its territory, most of them intercepted by air defenses.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, on October 17, 2023, after an overnight meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel defies a nervous Biden administration

The US president indicated Monday that he was opposed to Israeli ground operations in Lebanon, calling for a ceasefire as tensions spiralled after the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (center) waves after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information.

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'I pleaded guilty to journalism,' Wikileaks' Assange

Assange spent most of the last 14 years either holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London to avoid arrest, or locked up at Belmarsh Prison in the British capital.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departs after speaking during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 27, 2024.

In address to Iran, Netanyahu says nowhere in Middle East out of Israel's reach

Netanyahu, speaking in English in a 3-minute-long video released by his office in which he said he was addressing the Iranian people, blamed the Iranian government for plunging the Middle East "deeper into war" at the cost of its own people.

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A vessel identified by the Philippine Coast Guard as a Chinese navy ship (background center) is seen past the Philippine Coast Guard ship BRP Cape Engano (right), during a supply mission to Sabina Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea on August 26, 2024. Sailors aboard two Philippine Coast Guard vessels crashed through South China Sea waves trying to bring food and other supplies to colleagues holed up inside a remote ring of reefs, as Chinese ships shadowed them.