Israeli strikes kill 100 in Gaza as Trump says ‘lot of people are starving’
GAZA CITY, May 16 (Agencies): Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early Friday in north Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defence and residents have said. They were killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza on Friday as US President Donald...
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50 years since first woman scaled Everest
PARIS, May 16 (AFP): On May 16, 1975, Japan's Junko Tabei became the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest.Half a century later, the world's highest mountain is set to record its thousandth ascent by a woman.Scaling the 8,849 metre-high (29,032-foot-high) peak has mainly been a male...
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Russians and Ukrainians meet in Turkey for first talks in 3 years
ISTANBUL, May 16 (Reuters/AFP): Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul on Friday at their first direct peace talks in more than three years, under pressure from US President Donald Trump to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two.Live television showed Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan addressing Russian and...
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Global acute hunger hits new high, 2025 outlook 'bleak': UN
PARIS, May 16 (AFP): More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by conflict along with other crises -- and the outlook is "bleak" for 2025 as humanitarian aid falters, a UN-backed report said Friday.It was the sixth consecutive annual increase in the number...
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How India, Pakistan share one of the world's most dangerous borders
To live along the Line of Control (LoC) - the volatile de facto border that separates India and Pakistan - is to exist perpetually on the razor's edge between fragile peace and open conflict, reports BBC.The recent escalation after the Pahalgam attack brought India and Pakistan to the brink once...
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Afghan capital losing race against water shortages
KABUL, May 16 (AFP): Every week, Bibi Jan scrapes together some of her husband's meagre daily wage to buy precious water from rickshaw-drawn tankers that supply residents of Afghanistan's increasingly parched capital.Kabul faces a looming water crisis, driven by unruly and rapid urbanisation, mismanagement over years of conflict, and climate...
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Salman Rushdie attacker faces sentencing
NEW YORK, May 16 (AFP): An American-Lebanese man will be sentenced on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural centre.Hadi Matar, 27, faces up to 25 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder and assault charges in...
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UK, Pakistan FMs meet after India conflict
ISLAMABAD, May 16 (AFP): UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on Friday, a week after the country's most serious military confrontation with India in decades.The latest conflict between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan had sparked global concerns that it could spiral into a full-blown...
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