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Israeli strikes leave 40 Palestinians dead

GAZA, Oct 15 (Reuters/AFP): Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in the north of the enclave on Tuesday, amid fierce battles with Hamas-led fighters.Palestinian health officials said at least 11 people were killed by Israeli fire...

First visit by Delhi's top envoy in decade

ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (AFP): Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, the first top Delhi diplomat to visit their arch-rival neighbour in nearly a decade.Jaishankar's plane landed just before 3:30 pm (1030 GMT) at an airbase near the capital Islamabad,...

Harris courts Black voters as Trump makes inroads

ERIE, Oct 15 (AFP): Kamala Harris stepped up efforts to win back Black male voters who are drifting to Donald Trump, as the presidential rivals headed to dueling campaign events Monday in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania.The White House race is on a knife-edge with just over three weeks to...

Migrant deaths in New Mexico increase tenfold

ALBUQUERQUE, Oct 15 (AP): Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them - exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished - mostly into the hot desert, canyons or mountains west...

Kim holds meeting over drone flights

SEOUL, Oct 15 (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a top national security meeting to direct a plan of "immediate military action" in a dispute with the South over drone flights, state media reported Tuesday.The nuclear-armed North has accused Seoul of flying drones over its capital to drop...

News in Brief -2024-10-16

NASA launches probe to study if life possible on icy Jupiter moonNEW YORK, Oct 15: NASA's Europa Clipper probe blasted off from Florida on Monday, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life. Lift-off aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket...