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Israeli strikes on Gaza leave 19 dead

GAZA CITY, Nov 23 (AFP): Gaza's civil defence agency said that 19 people, including at least six children, were killed by Israeli air strikes and tank fire on Saturday.Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that "19 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in three massacres caused by...

Israeli airstrike shakes Beirut: 11 dead

BEIRUT, Nov 23 (Reuters/AFP): A powerful airstrike killed 11 people in central Beirut on Saturday, the Lebanese civil defence said, shaking the capital as Israel pressed its offencive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.The attack destroyed an eight-storey building and caused a large number of fatalities and injuries, Lebanon's National News...

Philippine VP publicly threatens to have President assassinated

MANILA, Nov 23 (AP): Philippine Vice President (VP) Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred...

NATO chief discusses 'global security' with Trump

BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (AFP): NATO chief Mark Rutte held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the "global security issues facing the alliance", a spokeswoman said Saturday.The meeting took place on Friday in Palm Beach, NATO's Farah Dakhlallah said in a statement.In his first term Trump aggressively pushed...

Ukraine seeking new air-defence systems after latest Russian strike

KYIV, Nov 23 (AFP): Ukraine is asking its Western partners for updated air defence systems after Russia fired an ultra-fast ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday.Russia has boasted its new "Oreshnik" hypersonic missile is unstoppable by air defences and has no equivalent...

Netanyahu faces arrest if he enters UK

JERUSALEM, Nov 23 (BBC): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated.A No 10 spokesman refused to comment on the specific case but said the government would fulfil its "legal obligations".On Thursday...

BJP, allies set to return to power in Maharashtra

NEW DELHI, Nov 23 (Reuters): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and its allies were set to return to power in the nation's richest state, television channels reported on Saturday, a boost for the Hindu-nationalist leader after a disappointing general election.In Maharashtra, home to India's financial capital Mumbai, the Bharatiya...