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Qatar could close the political office of Hamas as part of a broader review of its role as a mediator in Israel's war on Gaza, according to an official familiar with the Qatari government's reassessment. The Gulf state was weighing whether to allow Hamas to continue operating the political office, and the broader review includes considering whether or not to continue mediating in the seven-month conflict, the official told Reuters. Qatar said last month it was reevaluating its role as a mediator in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, citing concerns that its efforts were being undermined ...
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A top UN official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in "full-blown famine" after more than six months of war on Gaza and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory. Cindy McCain, the American director of the UN World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink of famine. "It's horror," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview to air Sunday. "There is famine - full-blown famine - in the north, and it's moving its way south....
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A Hamas delegation has arrived in Egypt to resume Gaza truce talks, as the United Nations warned that Israel's potential assault on the city of Rafah could produce a "bloodbath". Despite the ongoing peace talks, Israel has continued its bombardment of the enclave, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians overnight. Wafa reports the army targeted airstrikes and fired shells across Gaza City, killing and wounding civilians, while a raid was launched north-west of Nuseirat camp, and two were killed and five were injured in a targeted airstrike in the central Gaza Strip. In Rafah, two civilians...
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Hamas said its delegation will travel to Cairo on Saturday to resume Gaza ceasefire talks with a "positive spirit" in the latest effort to halt almost seven months of war with Israel. Foreign mediators have been waiting for a Hamas response to a proposal to halt the fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners. "We emphasise the positive spirit with which the Hamas leadership dealt with the ceasefire proposal it recently received, and we are going to Cairo in the same spirit to reach an agreement," the Palestinian group posted on its website on Friday. "We in Hamas and ...
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Lebanese authorities have arrested at least eight suspected members of a paedophile gang as of Friday, including three minors who are influencers on TikTok. The minors were used to lure other minors who were allegedly "drugged, raped and blackmailed into promoting drugs", a judicial official said. The eight arrested so far are suspected of being part of a wider group of 28 people identified in connection with the case, the official said. Lebanese media says the gang members include Lebanese, Syrian, and Turkish nationals. The arrests came after children complained to the public prosecution abo...
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Floods caused by torrential rainstorms killed four hikers in the Sulaimaniyah region of northern Iraq on Friday, local officials told AFP. "Four members of a hiking team drowned because of heavy rains and flooding in Awaspi village" in Qaradah district, local official Rouf Kamal said. Civil defence spokesperson Aram Ali confirmed the toll, and said eight other hikers survived the incident south of Sulaimaniyah, the autonomous Kurdistan region's second city. He said a weather warning had been issued on Thursday, with hikers in particular urged to avoid mountainous areas. Heavier than usual rain...
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Violence around the city of al-Fashir in Darfur, Sudan, has blocked a recently opened humanitarian corridor from Chad and time is running out to prevent starvation in the vast region, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday. Attacks around al-Fashir, the Sudanese army's last holdout in Darfur and home to some 1.6 million residents, have led to dire warnings of a new wave of mass displacement and inter-communal conflict in Sudan's year-old war. The conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has also led to worsening hunger, with some people eating soil or lea...
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At least 1,000 Sudanese refugees have fled a camp run by the United Nations in northern Ethiopia following a series of shootings and robberies, three of the refugees and the UN said. The refugees said about 7,000 of the 8,000 residents of the Kumer camp left on foot early on Wednesday morning after they were attacked and robbed by local militiamen. They said they were detained by the police shortly after leaving the camp, which is 70 km (43 miles) from the Sudanese border in Ethiopia's Amhara region. They asked not to be named for fear of reprisals. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said...
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A son of Sudan's army chief and de-facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who was seriously injured in a road accident in Turkey, died in hospital, local media reported on Friday. Mohammed Fattah al-Burhan Rahmane was riding his motorbike in Turkey's capital, Ankara, in March when he collided with a utility vehicle and was thrown several meters off his bike. He was transferred to a hospital where he was admitted to intensive care. He died in hospital, the private DHA news agency reported on Friday. A brutal conflict between the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rap...
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Suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) group attacked three posts for Syrian regime forces and pro-regime gunmen early Friday killing at least 13, an opposition war monitor and pro-government media reported. The attack wounded others who were taken to hospitals in the central province of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said 15 were killed in the attacks on three posts near the central town of Sukhna and blamed IS. The conflicting casualty counts could not immediately be reconciled. Athr Press and Sham FM, both pro-regime media outlets, said 13 soldiers and p...
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