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Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East on Monday to launch another push for an elusive ceasefire, seeking to revive negotiations to end the Gaza war and defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon. Blinken's trip to the region is his 11th since the attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered the Gaza war. It comes as Israel intensifies its military campaign against Iran-backed militants — Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel carried out several strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, including one near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the capital's main government hospital. Four people were killed, including a child, and 24 others were wounded, the health ministry said.

More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages

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MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Oscar has formed off the coast of the Bahamas.

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Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu called on people in southern states to have more children, citing concerns about an ageing population. He said the state govt is planning to implement "population management", including considering new legislation to incentivise families with more kids, as per a TOI report. «The state govt is thinking of bringing a law that would make only those with more than two children eligible to contest local body elections,» Naidu said. He also mentioned that the state had earlier passed legislation barring people with more than two children from contesting local polls. «We have repealed that law, and we are now considering reversing it...Govt may provide more benefits to families with more children,» he said.

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company

Israel scale back some of its strikes in and around the Lebanese capital of Beirut, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday, adding the number of civilian casualties was «far too high.» Austin's comments came hours after Israel carried out heavy strikes on several locations in the city's southern suburbs, leaving thick plumes of smoke wafting over the city horizon throughout the evening. Israel said it struck arms facilities belonging to Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Tens of thousands of people have fled the southern suburbs — once a densely populated zone that also housed Hezbollah offices and underground installations — since Israel began regular strikes there about three weeks ago.

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Sinwar spent nearly two decades in custody whose 'high tolerance for suffering' vision shaped his role as Hamas leader. On Thursday, Israel said troops in Gaza had killed Sinwar. The secretive figure feared on both sides of the battle lines engineered the surprise October 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel, along with the even more shadowy Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’ armed wing. Israel said that it killed Deif in a July airstrike in southern Gaza that killed more than 70 Palestinians.

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Thursday evening announced that it had eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of deadly October 7 attack, in a targeted ground operation in Rafah in southern Gaza. The Israeli military said that «after a year-long pursuit», troops «eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organisation, in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip» on Wednesday. According to Israeli media reports, after a year-long manhunt, Yahya Sinwar, a prime target for Israel, was killed «by chance» by regular IDF soldiers. The IDF also released drone footage of what it said were the «last moments» of Yahya Sinwar, showing him sitting on a couch, surrounded by rubble, inside a dilapidated apartment. In his final moments, Yahya Sinwar is seen throwing an object at the drone.

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The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to Israeli officials on Sunday demanding concrete measures to address the worsening situation in the Palestinian enclave amid a renewed Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Failure to do so could impact U.S. policy, said the letter, which was first reported by Israeli News 12.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel’s military is ordering civilians to leave large parts of northern Gaza as it conducts an offensive against Hamas militants in Jabalia refugee camp. But many Palestinians are staying put, because they are trapped by fighting around them, exhausted by a year of repeated evacuations or fearful that nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe.

Israel may expand its ground operations against Hezbollah while bolstering its own defences, its troops have cleared landmines and established new barriers on the frontier between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and a demilitarised strip bordering Syria, security sources and analysts said. The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon's border, at the same time creating a secure area from which it can freely reconnoitre the armed group and prevent infiltration, the sources said. While demining activity has been reported, sources who spoke to Reuters — including a Syrian soldier stationed in south Syria, a Lebanese security official and a U.N. peacekeeping official — revealed additional unreported details that showed Israel was moving the fence separating the DMZ towards the Syrian side and digging more fortifications in the area.

A federal appeals panel has temporarily halted two permits needed to begin construction on a pipeline that will supply a natural gas plant planned in Tennessee

Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines

Happy Dussehra 2024 Wishes: Dussehra is one of the most significant festivals for Hindus, celebrated annually at the end of Navratri. It typically falls on the tenth day of the Hindu month of Ashvin, corresponding to September or October in the Gregorian calendar. Known by various names such as Dasara, Dashain, and Vijayadashami, this year’s festivities are taking place today with great enthusiasm and joy.