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Gaza, Dec 25 (UNI) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday that it had carried out an airstrike on a launch site of Palestinian movement Hamas located near a United Nations compound in the northern Gaza Strip. “A short while ago, a Hamas launch site embedded near a UN compound in the area of…

Ankara, Dec 25 (UNI) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that the minimum wage in the country had been increased by 30% to 22,104 Turkish lira (about $630). “In 2025, the net minimum wage will be 22,104 Turkish lira with a 30% increase. Let this be beneficial for our country and its people,”…

Cairo, Dec 25 (UNI) At least 21 people have been killed and 51 injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past day, the Gaza Strip’s health ministry said on Tuesday. “During the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation committed three massacres of families in the Gaza Strip, with 21 dead and 51…

Washington, Dec 25 (UNI) US President-elect Donald Trump is serious about buying Greenland and the Panama Canal, as he believes the US to be an empire that will collapse if it does not grow, sources have told the New York Post newspaper. “Trump is of the belief that empires that don’t grow start to fail….

Cairo, Dec 25 (UNI) An Israeli shelling of the Tulkarm camp on the West Bank has killed three people and injured six, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said. “Three dead, six injured, including two seriously injured in [an Israeli] shelling of the Tulkarm camp,” the ministry said in a statement. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF)…

Jerusalem, Dec 25 (UNI) Col. Ayub Kayouf of the Israel Defense Forces was injured on Wednesday when an explosion hit an armored vehicle on the West Bank, the IDF said. The vehicle was hit during a counterterrorism operation near the city of Tulkarem, the Israeli military said, adding that the commanding officer of the Judea…

Moscow, Dec 24 (UNI) The Russian government extended on Tuesday the ban on the export of rice and rice products, excluding rice seeds, for another six months, until June 30, 2025. The government said that a decree had been signed to extend the ban past December 31, 2024 to ensure stable supplies to the domestic…

Mogadishu, Dec 24 (UNI) The Somali government has accused the Ethiopian troops of an attack on Somalia’s bases, the Somalian Foreign Ministry’s said on Monday, adding that several Somalian soldiers were killed during the attack. On December 11, Ethiopia and Somalia signed a Turkey-brokered declaration in Ankara. Mogadishu and Addis Ababa agreed to resolve their…

Moscow, Dec 24 (UNI) The chances of the WhatsApp messenger owned by Meta (banned in Russia for extremism) being blocked in 2025 in Russia will increase if its leadership does not comply with Russian legislation, Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy at the Russian Federation Council Artem Sheikin told…

Moscow, Dec 24 (UNI) Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has admitted on Monday for the first time that Israel was behind the assassination of Palestinian movement Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. “We will strike (the Houthis’) strategic infrastructure and decapitate its leaders. Just as we did to Haniyeh, (Hamas leader Yahya) Sinwar, and…