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Israel warned on Thursday it will unleash an even wider offensive in Gaza unless Hamas frees its remaining hostages, a threat issued as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 55 people across the enclave, according to local medics.
Israel’s military warned on Thursday that it will launch a broader, more intense campaign in Gaza unless Hamas releases the remaining hostages, as airstrikes killed at least 55 people, according to local rescue workers.
Visiting Israeli forces in the enclave, IDF Chief of Staff Lt-Gen. Eyal Zamir said Israel would keep ratcheting up military pressure and tighten control over Hamas if the captives are not freed soon.
Israel restarted its offensive on March 18 after a two-month ceasefire collapsed. On Thursday, Gaza medics reported an airstrike on a residential building in Gaza City that killed 11 people, including a child, and another strike on a police station in Jabalia that left nine dead.
Gaza’s health ministry says 1,978 Palestinians have been killed since operations resumed, bringing the death toll in the territory to 51,355 since the war erupted.
The world’s biggest dance music festival faces an unexpected setback as a fire destroys its main stage, prompting a last-minute response from organisers determined to keep the party alive in Boom, Belgium.
A powerful eruption at Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano sent an ash plume more than 3,000 metres high on Sunday morning, prompting safety warnings from authorities.
According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the Oaxaca region of Mexico on Saturday.
A resumption of Iraq’s Kurdish oil exports is not expected in the near term, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, despite an announcement by Iraq’s federal government a day earlier stating that shipments would resume immediately.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck 56 kilometres east of Gorgan in northern Iran early Sunday morning, according to preliminary seismic data.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan defends the U.S.-brokered peace accord, calling it “not a zero-sum game” and a step toward regional cooperation benefiting all, including Russia and Iran.
In a Fox News interview, President Ilham Aliyev said Azerbaijan’s transit deal with Armenia is “not against anyone” and marks the “final step toward peace,” while also addressing the 2024 downing of AZAL Flight 8243, demanding accountability and full compensation.
On 14 August, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov spoke by phone with his Kazakh counterpart, Murat Nurtleu.
Türkiye will provide Syria with weapons systems, logistics and military training under a new cooperation deal aimed at bolstering Syrian state forces and territorial integrity, a Turkish Defence Ministry source said on Thursday.
Chinese companies are ramping up investment in Indonesia to avoid steep U.S. import tariffs and tap into Southeast Asia’s largest consumer market.
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