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Sydney, Mar 5 (UNI) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday the government was delivering 250,000 sandbags to the state of Queensland from the national supply while the Australian Defence Force has been put on standby as severe tropical cyclone Alfred approaches. A range of measures were being taken including pre-positioning heavy lift helicopters…

Beirut, Mar 5 (UNI) Two Lebanese brothers were injured on Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes targeting a car in the southern Lebanese town of Ras Naqoura, state media reported. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli drones carried out multiple airstrikes on the vehicle near a landfill site south of a position of the…

Jerusalem, Mar 5 (UNI) Israeli researchers have developed a new noninvasive method to monitor molecular processes deep within tissues in cancer and other diseases, the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) said in a statement on Tuesday. The approach, termed “chemical tomography,” allows researchers to track cancer progression at different stages, better understand cancer biology, and…

Kinshasa, Mar 5 (UNI) More than 2,500 schools have been affected by an ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one senior official said Tuesday. Raissa Malu, state minister in charge of national education, said at a press briefing that over 2,500 schools have either been destroyed or occupied in North Kivu…

United Nations, Mar 5 (UNI) A UN special envoy on Tuesday strongly condemned Israel’s military escalations in Syria, including airstrikes, calling for an end to violations and refraining from exacerbating conflict. “Such actions are unacceptable and risk further destabilising an already fragile situation, heightening regional tensions, and undermining efforts toward de-escalation and a sustainable political…

San Francisco, Mar 5 (UNI) Amazon is developing an AI model that incorporates advanced “reasoning” capabilities, similar to models like OpenAI’s o3-mini and Chinese DeepSeek’s R1, according to a report by Business Insider on Tuesday. The model may launch as soon as June under Amazon’s Nova brand, which the company introduced at its re:Invent developer…

San Francisco, Mar 5 (UNI) Starbucks named a new chief financial officer on Tuesday. Cathy Smith, who has been Nordstrom’s CFO since 2023, will join Starbucks in the next month, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said in a letter to employees. Niccol said Smith brings extensive experience in retail, global operations and corporate turnarounds….

Aden, Yemen, Mar 5 (UNI) Yemen’s Houthi forces announced Tuesday that they successfully intercepted a U.S. MQ-9 reconnaissance drone over the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. Yahya Sarea, the Houthi military spokesperson, said on the social media platform X that the drone was downed while “violating Yemeni airspace and conducting hostile operations” in Hodeidah…

Ramallah, Mar 5 (UNI) The Israeli army on Tuesday killed a senior Qassam Brigades commander and another Palestinian during a large-scale military operation in the eastern neighborhood of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. According to Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses, the Israeli forces, backed by large reinforcements, surrounded several residential buildings in the…

Cairo, Mar 4 (UNI) An emergency Arab League (LAS) summit on Palestine will be held in Cairo on Tuesday, where Egypt is going to present its Gaza Strip reconstruction plan. The summit will be attended by the leaders of Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait, among others, as well as Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Syrian…