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Geneva, Oct 17 (UNI) At least 24 facilities of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have been damaged by Israeli strikes and bombings across the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to a report published by the organization on Tuesday. “[A total of] 24 confirmed reports of…
Beijing, Oct 17 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping may discuss the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone during a meeting in Beijing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. “Certainly. This is now a topic that is high on the agenda of all world leaders,” Peskov told reporters when asked…
Gaza, Oct 17 (UNI) More than 3,000 people have been killed and 11,000 injured in the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, and more than 1 million have fled their homes in the north of the enclave, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal said on Tuesday. “There are many dead and wounded in Gaza…
Gaza, Oct 16 (UNI) The Israeli military destroyed military command posts in the Gaza Strip in the past few hours, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday. “Over the last few hours, dozens of military command centers and mortar shell posts were destroyed. In addition, the operational command center of Ali Qadi, one of…
Kabul, Oct 16 (UNI) The handover ceremony for China’s first batch of quake-relief materials for Afghanistan was held on Sunday in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. During the ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Zhao Xing signed handover certificates of supplies from the Chinese government and the Red Cross Society of China respectively with Mohammad Abas…
Oslo, Oct 16 (UNI) There are still 170 Norwegian citizens who need assistance to leave Gaza, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday, but excluding more chartered flights to take them back for the moment. In a press release, Norway’s Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said the situation in Gaza is unclear and is getting…
Tegucigalpa, Oct 16 (UNI) Four people were killed and 27 injured on Sunday in Honduras when a bus carrying migrants plunged into a ravine and fell into a river, the fire department said. The accident occurred at about 3 a.m. local time (0900 GMT), in the northwest community of Santa Rosa de Copan, a municipality…
Tehran, Oct 16 (UNI) Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday warned of the expansion of the conflict if Israel continues its attacks on the Gaza Strip. “If the Zionist regime seeks to pay for its defeat through the continuation of these crimes (against Palestinians), the dimensions of the developments will expand,” said Raisi in a…
Kampala, Oct 16 (UNI) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday warned of retaliatory terrorist attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels following the military air strikes on their camps in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Museveni said in a statement that the military fighter-bombers on Saturday carried out the second airstrike on…
Gaza, Oct 16 (UNI) The number of Palestinian deaths has risen to 2,670, with more than 9,600 injuries reported, according to the Gaza-based Health Ministry. Ashraf Al-Qudra, a spokesman of the ministry, said the Israeli attacks “continue with all brutality,” noting that the attacks have targeted residential neighborhoods and destroyed homes “on the heads of…
