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Gaza fighting resumes as ceasefire ends

JERUSALEM, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP): The Israeli military on Friday published a map of what it called "evacuation zones" in the Gaza Strip, after international demands to create safe areas where civilians can shelter from devastating bombardments.A truce pausing fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian territory expired Friday...

UN chief 'deeply' regrets resumption of fighting in Gaza

GENEVA, Dec 1 (AFP): UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said he deeply regretted the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday and hoped a truce could be re-established.Fighting resumed in Gaza on Friday immediately after the expiry of a week- long truce between Hamas and...

W Africa leaders to hold summit as coups trouble region

ABIDJAN, Dec 1 (AFP): West African leaders will hold a summit later this month as the region struggles to reverse a series of coups and contain jihadist conflicts in the Sahel.The Economic Community of the West African States will meet in Nigeria's capital Abuja on December 10, Ivory Coast President...

Myanmar's military losing ground

BANGKOK, Nov 1 (AP): A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities in the northeast has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to launch new attacks.With Myanmar's military falling back on almost every front, hope is rising...

Watchdog votes to curb chemical exports to Syria

THE HAGUE, Dec 1 (AFP): The world's chemical weapons watchdog voted Thursday to curb chemical exports to Syria, accusing Damascus of violating its toxic arms control treaty.Syria agreed in 2013 to join the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, shortly after an alleged chemical gas attack killed more than...

New Zealand to ban cellphones in schools

WELLINGTON, Dec 1 (AFP): Cellphones will be banned in schools across New Zealand, conservative Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Friday, as his fledgling government looks to turn around the country's plummeting literacy rates.New Zealand's schools once boasted some of the world's best literacy scores, but levels of reading and writing...

News in Brief 2023-12-02)

Ukraine says Russia attacked with 25 drones, missiles overnight KYIV, Ukraine, Dec 1: Ukraine said Friday that Russian forces had launched more than two dozen Iranian-designed attack drones and two missiles on the south and east of the country, in Moscow's latest aerial barrage. Officials in Kyiv say Russian forces...