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FRANKFURT (Reuters) — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a German newspaper that at least 13,000 «terrorists» were among Palestinians killed during Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza.

By Sinan Abu Mayzer. Nidal al-Mughrabi. Bassam Masoud

US Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after US President Joe Biden announced plans to increase aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are going hungry. The new push for aid came in the final hours before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which could start as early as Sunday evening, depending on the sighting of a crescent moon. Hopes for a new cease-fire by Ramadan faded days ago with negotiations apparently stalled. The opening of the sea corridor, along with airdrops by the US, Jordan and others, showed growing alarm over Gaza's deadly humanitarian crisis and a new willingness to bypass Israeli control over land shipments. Israel said that it welcomed the sea deliveries and would inspect Gaza-bound cargo before it leaves a staging area in nearby Cyprus.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders, including two former MPs, and a Congress leader from Telangana joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday as the ruling party looks to boost its Lok Sabha tally in the southern state. Those who joined the party are Godam Nagesh and Sitaram Nayak, both former MPs, former BRS MLAs Saidy Reddy and Jalagam Venkat Rao, and Srinivas Gomase, who was in the Congress. The leaders praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. BJP leader and party parliamentary board member K Laxman welcomed them and said while the leaders of other parties are working for the future for their sons and daughters, Modi is working for the country.

U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces bolster embassy security, as Caribbean nation reels under a state of emergency. The operation was the latest sign of Haiti's troubles as gang violence threatens to bring down the government and has led thousands to flee their homes. «This airlift of personnel into and out of the embassy is consistent with our standard practice for embassy security augmentation worldwide, and no Haitians were on board the military aircraft,» the U.S. military's Southern Command said in a statement.

Joe Biden said Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the war in Gaza was «hurting Israel more than helping Israel» in an interview aired Saturday, as the US leader's impatience with his Israeli counterpart grows increasingly visible. With Gaza's humanitarian crisis growing more dire and Biden's left flank in uproar, the US president made contradictory remarks as to the question of a «red line» over Israel's threatened offensive on Rafah in southern Gaza.

Tornado Watch has been issued for a significant portion of the Florida Panhandle, southeastern Alabama, and parts of southern Georgia on Saturday, coinciding with the passage of a cold front through the area. This watch encompasses areas such as Panama City and Tallahassee in Florida, as well as Valdosta and Savannah in Georgia. The severe storms have the potential to unleash gusts of up to 70 mph and produce large hail, in addition to posing a tornado threat, as per a report in Fox Weather. In South Carolina, heavy downpours coinciding with high tides led to Flash Flood Warnings being issued in Charleston, where storms dumped close to 2 inches of rainfall within a span of three hours.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Bassam Masoud

BJP and the TDP coming together is a win-win situation for the country and the state." On the poll prospects of the TDP-BJP-JSP tie-up in the Lok Sabha elections and Andhra Pradesh Assembly polls, Chandrababu Naidu said “it will be a sweep". While the TDP, BJP and the Jana Sena have already been deliberating on the seat-sharing formula to be shared between them, the official number has not been announced yet. Even though Lok Sabha looks sorted, the BJP reportedly wants to contest Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections on more seats than ally Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena.

Karnataka high-level clearance committee chaired by chief minister Siddaramaiah on Friday approved an investment of Rs 2,095 crore from Wistron Infocomm, along with six new proposals and eight additional investment proposals. Wistron Infocomm has sought 15 acres of land at Narasapura industrial area in Kolar to assemble smartphones, IoT products and biotech devices.

A federal judge has ruled that Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year's fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio

Discount grocer Aldi plans to add 800 stores across the U.S. in a five-year expansion plan as it looks to capitalize on cost-conscious Americans feeling the pinch at grocery stores

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress Wednesday that the decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them three days after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn't justi...

Iranian state media say a fire at an oil refinery in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas has killed at least one person and injured three

Old Masters, Roman statues, modern furniture, tribal masks and vintage watches are vying for the attention of well-heeled collectors at the annual TEFAF art fair that opened in the southern Netherlands

OpenAI's investor Microsoft and its co-defendant in the New York Times (NYT) lawsuit on Monday sought to dismiss parts of NYT's plea on the grounds that the news organisation did not show any “actual harm” or meaningful diversion of revenue from its website due to use of artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT. The NYT had sued the two tech firms in December 2023, alleging that they were trying to create a substitute of the newspaper and even trying to “free-ride on the Times’s massive investment in its journalism”.

Congress central election committee (CEC) meetings are slated to begin from Thursday to choose candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, the party circles are abuzz with talks of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contesting from Raebareli, vacated by Sonia Gandhi to move to Rajya Sabha, and her brother Rahul Gandhi again from both Wayanad and Amethi seats. AICC is likely to announce its first list on Thursday, including that of Kerala where LDF and BJP candidates are already campaigning. The appearance of posters in parts of Raebareli on Wednesday reading 'Rae Bareli pukarti, Priyanka Gandhi ji aaye' (Raebareli calls, Priyanka Gandhi come), statements by local Congress leaders in favour of the siblings' candidatures and UP Congress unit's appeal and proposal before the screening committee for the duo to fight from the family seats added to the buzz. AICC has made no official comments yet. Some leaders also pointed out that it would be ultimately, as has been, a decision of the family.

demand a law to fix a Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops, in addition to other concessions including the waiving of loan. However, farmers suspended their march after violence and clashes between farmers and Delhi police were reported at borders on February 24. Farmers then planned to resume their protest on Wednesday, March 6, urging farmers across India to head for Delhi by bus and train since their tractors had been blocked.

To boost its operational capabilities within the strategically important Lakshadweep islands, the Indian Navy on Wednesday commissioned its new base “INS Jatayu” at Minicoy Island.

India TV-CNX Opinion polls, BJP-led NDA is projected to win 378 out of 543 seat while the India bloc is projected to win 98 seats. In an opinion polls conducted in 543 Lok Sabha constituencies between 5-23 February stated that BJP can win about 335 seats on its own crossing its 303 seats win in 2019. The opinion poll stated that BJP could win all 26 seats in Gujarat, all 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh, all 25 seats in Rajasthan, all 10 seats in Haryana, all 7 seats in Delhi, all 5 seats in Uttarakhand while all 4 seats in Himachal Pradesh.