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The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday that efforts to find a Gaza Strip truce deal were back at square one after Israel effectively spurned a plan from international mediators, and the White House said it was trying to keep the sides engaged, “if only virtually.” Hamas said in a statement it would consult withContinue Reading

World The UN General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new ‘rights and privileges’ to Palestinian representatives and called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider their request to have a Palestinian state become the 194th member of the United Nations. Trudeau says country is committed to two-state solutionTheContinue Reading

World Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the state guards on Thursday, two days after two of its members were accused of plotting to assassinate the president. State security service says assassinations were to be alleged ‘gift’ for Vladimir PutinThomson Reuters · Posted: May 09, 2024 3:18 PMContinue Reading

World Donald Trump’s lawyer sought to show inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels’s various tellings of a 2006 sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness. Porn actress questioned about making money off notoriety from alleged Trump affair,Continue Reading

World Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died, a lawyer from his firm confirmed Thursday. He was 71. Prosecutors last month had requested a 12-year prison sentence for FonsecaContinue Reading

World A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister and footage from a passenger that appeared to show the aircraft on fire. TransAir was headed to Bamako late WednesdayThe Associated Press ·Continue Reading

Netanyahu defiant in face of U.S. warning against Rafah invasionIn a video released Thursday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a defiant tone in an apparent rebuke to U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat to cut off weapons shipments if Israel went ahead with a major operation in Rafah. IsraeliContinue Reading

World Severe storms were tearing through the central and southeast U.S. late Tuesday and Wednesday, spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina. Storms brought hail, tornadoes and destruction to multiple statesThe Associated Press · Posted: May 08, 2024 9:13 PM EDT |Continue Reading

World·Video A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official said, adding there were no casualties and authorities had launched an investigation. Footage shows sparks flying, smoke as front of plane scraped along the runwayThomson ReutersContinue Reading