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JERUSALEM (AP): Hamas announced its acceptance on Monday (May 6) of an Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal, but Israel said the deal did not meet its “core demands” and that it was pushing ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Still, Israel said it would continue negotiations. The high-stakes diplomatic moves and military…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine have accused each other at the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague of using banned toxins on the battlefield, the organisation said on Tuesday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said that the accusations were “insufficiently substantiated” but added: “The situation remains volatile and extremely concerning…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Talks between Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog have been positive and productive, Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said on Tuesday in a joint news conference with the IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in the Iranian city of Isfahan. Grossi flew to Iran on Monday hoping to bolster oversight by the International Atomic…
LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Liverpool finally found some form after a dismal run in a comfortable 4-2 Premier League victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday in much-loved manager Juergen Klopp’s penultimate game at Anfield. Strikes from Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson, Cody Gakpo and Harvey Elliott secured a much needed victory for Klopp’s men, who had won…
Reuters CAPE CANAVERAL: Boeing Co’s new Starliner astronaut capsule was poised for a Monday night launch of its long-delayed inaugural crewed test flight to the International Space Station, two years after its first voyage without humans to the orbital laboratory. The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with two astronauts aboard is due for lift-off at 10.34pm local…
AFP PARIS: French president Emmanuel Macron today pressed Xi Jinping to coordinate closely with Europe in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and accept fair global trade rules as the Chinese leader began a state visit to France. Xi’s first visit to Europe since 2019 will also see him hold talks in Serbia and…
CALIFORNIA: With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of US airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air…
Reuters CAIRO: Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack claimed by Hamas armed wing, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, where Palestinian health officials said at least 19 people were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday. Hamas’s armed wing claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing…
KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on his fellow Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter on Sunday to unite in prayer for each other and the soldiers on the frontline, saying God — who has a “Ukrainian flag on his shoulder” — will lead to life defeating death. “Let’s pray for each other. When we all…
(Reuters) – The “hostile line” of the Baltic countries have led to the severance of most of their ties with Russia, the Russian foreign ministry said in remarks published on Sunday, warning also that Moscow will respond with asymmetric measures. “Because of the openly hostile line of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn, all interstate, interdepartmental, regional…
