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hostage situation at Hamburg Airport has concluded after a grueling 18-hour standoff, as confirmed by local law enforcement. On Saturday night, a 35-year-old man forcefully breached the airport's security barrier, driving his vehicle onto the airport tarmac with his four-year-old daughter aboard, positioning the car beneath a parked plane. Surprisingly, the individual surrendered himself «without resistance,» leading to his immediate arrest, according to the police. In a reassuring update, authorities reported that the child appeared to be physically unharmed during the ordeal, as conveyed through their message on X (formerly Twitter). While the issue was resolved, the incident majorly affected the flight schedules, furthermore causing disruptions for several other flights to and from the airport. As airport operation have gone back to normal, passengers will still continue to experience significant delays.

step back from immediate escalation. Yet amid the bloody struggle in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, a broader and potentially more dangerous rivalry with Iran is growing. Having abandoned the Trump-era approach of “maximum pressure" on Iran, in recent months the Biden administration had sought quietly to reduce tensions.

Israel on Monday pounded Gaza with «significant» strikes as soldiers battled Hamas forces in the besieged territory, ignoring ceasefire calls by UN aid agencies who condemned surging civilian deaths in the month-long conflict. Israeli troops and Hamas fighters engaged in house-to-house combat in densely populated Gaza, where the war has sent 1.5 million people fleeing to other parts of the territory in a desperate search for cover. «We will take the fight to Hamas wherever they are, underground, above ground», Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said at a briefing Monday, repeating calls for civilians to leave the urban war zone in the north of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. «We will be able to dismantle Hamas, stronghold after stronghold, battalion after battalion, until we achieve the ultimate goal, which is to rid the Gaza Strip — the entire Gaza Strip — of Hamas.» Conricus again accused Hamas of building tunnels underneath hospitals, schools and places of worship in Gaza to hide fighters, plan attacks and store ammunition — a charge the militant group has repeatedly denied. «This strike is like an earthquake,» Gaza City resident Alaa Abu Hasera said, in a devastated area where entire blocks were reduced to rubble. Israel launched a massive bombing campaign after the Palestinian militants staged the worst attack in the country's history. In their October 7 attack, Hamas gunmen killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 240 others hostage. The health ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, says more than 9,770 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in Israeli strikes and the intensifying ground campaign since the war began. Israel has resisted calls for a halt in

By Doina Chiacu

CAIRO (Reuters) -Evacuations of injured Gazans and foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing to Egypt have been suspended since Saturday, but Egyptian, U.S. and Qatari officials said there were efforts to resume them.

Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 33 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. The strike came as Israel said it would press on with its offensive to crush the territory's Hamas rulers, despite US appeals for a pause to get aid to desperate civilians. The soaring death toll in Gaza has sparked growing international anger, with tens of thousands from Washington to Berlin taking to the streets Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire. Israel has rejected the idea of halting its offensive, even for brief humanitarian pauses proposed by U.S.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's ruling Workers Party criticized the Israeli government on Friday for not allowing 34 Brazilians to leave Gaza, saying Israel is playing favorites when deciding who should be allowed to evacuate the besieged Palestinian territory.

attack on the refugee camp in northern Gaza's Jabalia, which claimed around 195 civilian lives, reports said on November 4. Apart from the 195 killed in the Israeli strike on October 31, an estimated 120 others were feared to be under the rubble, the Gaza health ministry had said, adding that 777 others were wounded. The site which was attacked is the biggest refugee camp in Gaza.

Ukraine's newly appointed head of defense industry says he is working tirelessly to ramp up local arms production and wants to turn the country into a weapons production hub for the West. Oleksandr Kamysyhin, the minister for strategic industries of Ukraine, said that Russia's invasion of his country and the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Middle East have highlighted the need for countries to spend on their defense systems. «We're really focusing on making Ukraine the arsenal of the free world,» Kamyshin told The Associated Press in an interview late Friday. Kamyshyn said approximately 500 companies in Ukraine's defense industry are contributing to the country's efforts to increase weapons production in order to counter Russia's attempts to seize more territory. Among those are 70 state-owned factories, over 200 primarily private factories producing unmanned systems, and more than 200 private sector companies involved in the production of various types of weaponry and ammunition. «We are focused on producing all types of weapons and ammunition, and we show that we can test it on the battlefield and make it better during the war,» Kamyshin said.

Israel claimed responsibility for the attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital which killed several people and left dozens more wounded, CNN reported on Friday. Israel said that it had targeted the ambulance because it was being used by Hamas, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Notably, at least 15 people were killed and 50 others were wounded in the attack on the largest medical facility in the enclave, CNN reported citing the Hamas-run health authorities. According to the footage from the scene, at least a dozen bloodied casualties can be seen strewn across the ground near an ambulance. «A Hamas terrorist cell was identified using an ambulance. In response, an IDF aircraft struck and neutralized the Hamas terrorists, who were operating within the ambulance.

Switzerland’s national rail operator says the world’s longest rail tunnel won’t be fully reopened to train traffic until next September, again pushing back the target date for repairs of damage caused by a cargo train derailment

Israel's ground troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the US and Arab countries intensified diplomatic efforts to ease the siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and bring about at least a brief stop to the fighting to help civilians. More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war broke out, health officials said. President Joe Biden suggested a humanitarian «pause» the day before, as an apparent agreement among the US, Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas, allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of wounded to leave Gaza for the first time.

Gaza said on Thursday that more than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since war broke out more than three weeks ago. Dr. Ashraf al-Qudra, a ministry spokesperson, said 9,061 people have been killed in Gaza, including 3,760 who are under 18.

bomb threats were called into schools across the province, prompting warnings and evacuations.The total number of schools impacted by bomb threats on Wednesday was not clear, according to Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), who said the threats stretched from parts of the north to the east.Bomb threats were also reported by other police forces in the province, including in Toronto and Halton Region.With questions continuing to swirl and police across Ontario working to look into the various threats, here is what we know so far:Multiple schools in northern and eastern Ontario were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after receiving bomb threats from people “demanding money” OPP said.Bill Dickson, OPP media relations manager, said in an email that many schools in Ontario were impacted, but the total number was unclear.He said in the email that most of the impacted schools were in the north of the province.“The threats had impacted schools across northern Ontario, so as far north as the province stretches. In the east, to the Quebec border,” Dickson said in an email.Police said the threats targeted multiple schools under multiple school boards and other facilities, demanding payment.In a post on Facebook, for example, a Timmins, Ont., school board reported it had received a bomb threat and closed all its schools as a precaution.Police said many of the targeted schools and facilities in the province have been closed while the investigation continues.

A ferry that had ran aground last month off southeastern Sweden and started leaking oil into the Baltic Sea has been pulled free and anchored nearby

Oil prices rose more than 2% on Wednesday ahead of the keenly watched meeting of the U.S. central bank for clues on interest rate policy, while the conflict in the Middle East remains in focus. Brent January crude futures were up about 2.5%, or $2.08, to $87.10 a barrel by 1316 GMT.

By Natalie Grover

The Israel-Hamas war has plunged Israel’s agricultural heartlands into crisis

Just last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East, based on growing acceptance of Israel within the region