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Srinagar district on Saturday, police said on Sunday. According to officials, three tourists from Bangladesh namely Anindaya Kowshal, Das Gupta, and Mohammad Moinud, who were staying in houseboat Safeena lost their lives in the devastating fire, they added. «Three dead while eight people were rescued after several houseboats gutted in a massive fire in Dal Lake,» Jammu and Kashmir police said on Sunday.

Reykjavik could be heavily damaged by a volcano expected to erupt within hours or days, experts said on Saturday. The town of Grindavik on the southwestern coast was evacuated in the early hours of Saturday after magma shifting under the Earth's crust caused hundreds of earthquakes in what was believed to be a precursor to an eruption. «We are really concerned about all the houses and the infrastructure in the area,» Vidir Reynisson, head of Iceland's Civil Protection and Emergency Management told AFP. The town — around 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of Reykjavik — is located near the Svartsengi geothermal plant, the main supplier of electricity and water to 30,000 residents on the Reykjanes peninsula, as well as a freshwater reservoir. Grindavik is also near the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa resort, a popular tourist destination which closed as a precaution earlier this week. «The magma is now at a very shallow depth, so we're expecting an eruption within a couple of hours at the shortest, but at least within a couple of days,» Reynisson said.

Israel-Gaza War LIVE 1. The Chief Israeli military spokesperson Admiral Daniel Hagari, said that the military will facilitate the evacuation of children who are currently trapped in Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital on the upcoming Sunday. “The staff of the Shifa hospital has requested that tomorrow we help the babies in the pediatric department to get to a safer hospital.

The gun battles and intense bombardment around the Al-Shifa hospital came as Israel pressed deep into Gaza City in its offensive aimed at destroying the militant group Hamas in the territory it rules. «Shooting is never stopping, airstrikes are unabated as well as artillery shells,» said a witness who spoke on condition of anonymity. «There are dozens of bodies around the complex that nobody can reach.» Though tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting, many have taken shelter in northern Gaza's hospitals which have been repeatedly hit by explosive strikes and gunfire. «The hospital is besieged, with no option to bring in the corpses and injured people sprawled outside.

The crossing between Gaza and Egypt's Sinai peninsula is the only entry into the strip not controlled by Israel, and has been crucial for aid trucks and evacuees, who number in the thousands. Evacuations from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, including for Palestinians needing urgent medical treatment, were suspended on Friday, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said, due to problems transporting medical evacuees from northern Gaza. The border would begin operating at 9 a.m.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Emily Rose and Maayan Lubell

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) — Icelandic authorities have completed the evacuation of 3,000 residents of a town in the southwestern part of the country over concerns of a volcanic eruption after a series of earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground.

volcanic eruption. The Icelandic Meteorological Office reported that the earthquakes had varying depths, with the shallowest recorded at 3-3.5 kilometers (1.86-2.18 miles). The Civil Protection Agency of Iceland stated on Friday that a magma tunnel is forming, and there is a possibility it could extend to Grindavík. However, as of Friday evening, authorities have been unable to determine whether and where the magma might breach the surface.

Gaza bombardment. Taking to X, she said, “We demanded accountability and it is saddening that the best the White House could come up with is, 'Everyone has their opinion, we respect folks' opinion, and that is her opinion.'" Also Read: Canadian poet Rupi Kaur rejects Biden's Diwali invitation over Israel support, says 'Govt's actions dehumanize people' Kaur further added, “'Everyone has their opinion...and that is her opinion' is a disingenuousness, gaslighting response to ‘Your government is helping to enable a Genocide with American tax dollars and we are asking you to stop.'" Kaur slammed the Biden administration and noted, “Shame that this administration does not have compassion for both Palestinian and Israeli lives lost.

Joe Biden has said that there is «no possibility» of a ceasefire in Gaza. Biden said that the US government will not stop until it gets the hostages out. Speaking to reporters about the chances of a Gaza ceasefire, Biden said, «None, No possibility.» Asked about an update on getting hostages out, he said, «We're still optimistic.» In his message to the families of the hostages in Gaza, Biden said, «We're not going to stop until we get them out.» Speaking to reporters before Air Force One departure at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Biden said that the retaliatory strikes in the Middle East are working «in the sense that we're hitting the targets strategically.» Biden said he had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a more than three-day pause. Asked whether he had asked Netanyahu to pause for three days to get the hostages out for that length of time, Biden said, " Yes.

Israeli post-war occupation of Gaza, where Israel has waged a bombing campaign to destroy the enclave's Hamas rulers after militants rampaged through southern Israeli communities on October 7 in an attack that Israel says killed 1,400 people. 3) According to health officials, Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 10,800 Palestinians. A humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded as basic supplies run out and wounded people overwhelm a fragile medical system.

Read all our coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas Most of those displaced are sheltering in UN facilities, hospitals and other public buildings—all of them bursting at the seams. At a vocational-training centre in Khan Younis, the most crowded UN shelter, each resident has less than two square metres of personal space and each toilet is shared by at least 600 people. Before the war the average person in Gaza received 80 litres of water a day.

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Israel-Hamas war to allow for the release of all Jewish hostages and for the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Gaza. “I don't need to describe the horrors. This is why we are calling for a significant humanitarian pause that will allow us to release all the Jewish hostages and ...

Gaza Strip on Wednesday seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants. The exodus took place in a four-hour window of opportunity announced by Israel, which has told residents to evacuate the area or risk being trapped in the violence. However, the central and southern parts of the small, besieged Palestinian enclave were also under fire as the war between its Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel entered its second month. Palestinian health officials said an air strike that hit houses in Nusseirat refugee camp killed 18 people on Wednesday morning. In Khan Younis, six people, including a young girl, were killed in an air strike. «We were sitting in peace when all of a sudden an F16 air strike landed on a house and blew it up, the entire block, three houses next to each other,» said a witness, Mohammed Abu Daqa. «Civilians, all of them civilians.

Naor Gilon has urged Indians to light a “Diya of Hope" for the hostages held by Hamas since October 7. In a video posted on X, Gilon said that just as Lord Ram's return is celebrated on Diwali by lighting Diyas, a diya (lamp) must be lit in the hope of having our loved ones return. “240 of our loved ones have been held hostage by #HamasTerrorists for a month.

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Israel's ambassador to India has urged Indians to light a 'Diya of Hope' for the hostages from his country who are being held by Hamas since last month's assault. Condemning Hamas for its October 7 onslaught, Israel's Ambassador to India Naor Gilon has said that if the country is able to eliminate Hamas terrorists, it will also decrease chances of a ripple effect. Gilon posted a video on X and said that just as Lord Ram's return is celebrated on Diwali by lighting Diyas, a diya (lamp) must be lit in the hope of having our loved ones return. «240 of our loved ones have been held hostage by #HamasTerrorists for a month. Every #Diwali, we celebrate Lord Ram's return by lighting Diyas,» Gilon said. «THIS #Diwali2023 we invite you to light a Diya in the hope of having our loved ones return Tag us and share your photos using the #DiyaOfHope,» he said. He said that Israel waited for weeks and asked civilians to evacuate to the south, but Hamas used civilians as human shields. «If we are able to eliminate Hamas, if we get the time, it will decrease the chances that it will have a ripple effect.

(AAIB). The incident took place on October 4, the AAIB report said, noting that an Orlando-bound Airbus A321 jet had taken from London's Stansted Airport. Mid-air, the crew detected that two cabin windowpanes were missing.

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