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Gaza truce should end Saturday if hostages not freed, says Trump

NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters/AFP/AP): US President Donald Trump said on Monday that if all the hostages held in Gaza are not returned by Saturday at noon he would propose cancelling the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and letting "all hell break loose."Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump also said he...

Corruption threatens climate action, warns TI

BERLIN, Feb 11 (AFP): Corruption threatens to "derail" global cooperation to tackle climate change, graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) warned in a report on Tuesday.Its "Corruption Perceptions Index" for 2024 showed that many countries involved in climate action-either as hosts of the United Nations climate summits or because they are...

Cholera claims over 100 lives in Angola

LUANDA, Feb 11 (AFP): A cholera outbreak in Angola has killed at least 108 people since the start of the year, the health ministry said Tuesday, with deaths on the rise in the last few days.The resource-rich African nation has struggled with high poverty rates and poor sanitation despite its...

Suicide attack kills 5 outside Afghan bank

KABUL, Feb 11 (AFP): A suicide bomber killed five people including Taliban security forces on Tuesday in an explosion outside a bank in northern Afghanistan, police said.Seven people were also wounded in the attack which targeted a queue of people waiting to collect their salaries from a bank in the...

One dead, 4 injured

ARIZONA, Feb 11 (Reuters): At least one person was killed on Monday after a midsize business jet skidded off the runway while landing at the Scottsdale, Arizona, municipal airport and collided with another jet that was parked, authorities said.Dave Folio, a spokesperson with the Scottsdale Fire Department, said at a...

Teacher stabs 8-yr-old student in South Korea

SEOUL, Feb 11 (BBC): A teacher has fatally stabbed an eight-year-old girl at an elementary school in South Korea, in an incident that has shocked the nation.The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon, police said.The girl was found...

Trump says no right of return for Palestinians in Gaza under his plan for US 'ownership'

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (AP): President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. "ownership" of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials in his administration who have sought to argue Trump was only calling for the temporary relocation of its population.Less...