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Morocco has suffered a sixth consecutive year of drought, a threat to the vital farm sector [Getty/archive] A heatwave in Morocco has killed more than 20 people in a 24-hour period in the central city of Beni Mellal, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The meteorology department said soaring temperatures affected much of the North […]

Selected as the official Australian candidate for the latest Oscar Academy Awards, the closing film of the 77th Locarno Film Festival, and winner of the Audience Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award, among others, Shayda has landed in UK cinemas with a rich biography behind it. Based

Donald Trump said America should ‘obliterate Iran’ if he were to be killed [Getty] Former US president Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US should “destroy” Iran if he were to be assassinated by agents of the Islamic Republic. The Republican presidential nominee made the remarks on his social media platform Truth Social, where he

Harris struck a more forceful tone in her remarks than President Joe Biden [Getty] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have lashed out at US Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for the presidency, after she said it was time for the war in Gaza to end. Harris’ remarks at

Egypt has been ranked as the world’s third-worst jailer of journalists. [Getty] Journalists across Egypt called for a gathering next week at the headquarters of the Journalists’ Syndicate in downtown Cairo in solidarity with jailed colleagues and after two journalists were detained in separate night raids from their homes. The syndicate’s freedoms committee is scheduled to

Canada’s Revenue Agency will be revoking the Jewish National Fund charity status [Getty] Canada’s Revenue Agency (CRA) has notified the Jewish National Fund (JNF) that it will be revoking the group’s charitable status over its support for the Israeli military. A financial audit cited by the CRA found that the JNF’s projects violated Canada’s tax rules

The letter came just days after two American doctors in Gaza told CBS News in a recent interview that they had seen and treated multiple children with gunshot wounds to the head and heart [Getty] Dozens of American doctors and nurses volunteering in Gaza have penned a letter to President Joe Biden urging an end to military support to Israel

Protestors demonstrate in St Peter’s Square in the wake of a video showing a police officer kicking a man as he was being detained at Manchester Airport yesterday, on July 25, 2024 in Manchester, England [Getty] The condition of a man seen in a video being kicked and stamped on by a police officer at

Lebanon’s Hady Habib thought he was dreaming when he walked into the player’s gym at Roland Garros and saw Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic working out ahead of the Paris Olympics. Now, because of a quirk of fate, the Houston-born 25-year-old will walk out on Court Suzanne Lenglen on Saturday to face Carlos Alcaraz in

The athlete, who can request a test of a B sample, has been banned from any activity during the Paris Olympics [Getty/archive] Iraqi judoka Sajjad Ghanim Sehen Sehen was provisionally suspended on Friday after he tested positive for anabolic steroids, the International Testing Agency said on Friday. The athlete, who can request a test of