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Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 240th day, has killed at least 36,439 Palestinians — 71 percent of them women, children and infants — and wounded 82,627, officials say.

US President Joe Biden has announced what he claimed was an Israeli peace plan to bring around a ceasefire in Gaza. According to journalists invited to a background briefing on Friday, the new plan is almost indistinguishable from previous plans agreed by Hamas.

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara on Sunday expressed Japan's continued support for Ukraine as it resists Russia's invasion in a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov on the sidelines of a security forum in Singapore.

A high-level source said that Egypt held the Israeli side responsible for the consequences of the closure of Rafah crossing border, and the worsened humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip as a result. 

As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that.

Senior adviser who worked for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown says there is an ‘urgent imperative’ for a new government to address wealth inequality in Britain.

North Korea is sending balloons carrying trash and manure to South Korea on Saturday, Seoul's military said, after it launched hundreds of similar balloons across the inter-Korean border earlier this week.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Saturday of China's coercive actions in the Indo-Pacific region while underscoring the need for dialogue to avoid conflict.

Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 239th day, has killed at least 36,379 Palestinians — 71 percent of them women, children and infants — and wounded 82,407, officials say.

Hamas says it is open to a plan announced by Biden ‘based on the foundation of a permanent ceasefire, complete withdrawal’ from Gaza.