New Zealand’s navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on Sunday creating a potential environmental disaster in waters used for…
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A year on from October 7, the Middle East is facing its greatest upheaval in a half-century
by adminIt is almost impossible to remember life in Israel before Hamas launched its brutal October 7 attacks a year ago, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping more than 250 others. There is little point, because that life is gone for good.…
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Israeli military launches new operation in northern Gaza after seeing signs of Hamas regrouping
by adminIsrael’s military says it has encircled Jabalya, northern Gaza and launched a new ground operation, after seeing signs of Hamas rebuilding, despite nearly a year of fighting and strikes in the territory. Despite attention shifting…
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Israel’s kibbutz Be’eri became the symbol of Hamas’ brutality. Some survivors are determined to return
by adminScorch marks and bullet holes scar the battered walls of the Haran family home in kibbutz Be’eri. Its tiled roof has caved in, windows smashed, littering the floors with sharp shards of terracotta and glass…
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Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China
by adminGlance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets. And that sight will become more…
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‘There will be a lot of deaths’: Israelis living near Lebanese border fear tit-for-tat escalation
by adminYair Pinhas grew up hiking in the hills around Kiryat Shmona, his hometown in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. “We always thought that the October 7 (attack) would happen here, we always talked…
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The fate of a possible successor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is unclear following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. Safieddine is a maternal cousin of Nasrallah – the two studied in Iran together in the…
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Yazidi woman captured by ISIS rescued in Gaza after more than a decade in captivity
by adminA 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Fawzia Amin Sido was freed…
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Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon the ‘most intense aerial campaign’ outside Gaza in last two decades
by adminIsrael has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign in less than three weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from their homes, according to the Lebanese…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un threatens to destroy the South with nuclear weapons if provoked
by adminNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy South Korea if attacked, state media reported Friday, after South Korea’s president warned that if the North used nuclear weapons it would…