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CAIRO/RAFAH/WASHINGTON: Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would withhold weapons from Israel if its forces mount a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.A senior Israeli official said that the latest round of indirect negotiations in Cairo to halt hostilities […]

BEIRUT: Hezbollah launched several attacks on Israeli military targets across Lebanon’s border on Thursday after four of its members were killed in Israeli strikes, security sources said. Israeli drones on Thursday had struck a car in Bafliyeh, Tyre — 99 km from Beirut — that was transporting Hezbollah members. The group announced the death of

LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and

LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and

NEW YORK CITY: The United Nations General Assembly on Friday backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council “reconsider the matter favorably.”The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a

BAGHDAD: Iraq has requested that a United Nations assistance mission set up after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country end its work by the end of 2025, saying it was no longer needed because Iraq had made significant progress toward stability. The mission, headquartered in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, was set up with

LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and

LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and

BEIRUT: An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on Friday killed a first responder from a rescue team affiliated with a Hezbollah-allied group and a telecoms technician carrying out maintenance work. Two Israeli military drones launched the attack on a maintenance team working in the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Harfa. The victims were identified

DUBAI: The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization said on Friday it had received a report of a failed hijacking attempt of a vessel 195 nautical miles east of Yemen’s Aden. The vessel’s master reported being approached by a small craft carrying five or six armed people with ladders. Houthi militants in Yemen have