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The Washington Post was vehemently denied by both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US officials. The hostage release could begin within the next several days, barring last-minute hitches, according to people familiar with the detailed, six-page agreement, the paper said on Saturday. The debated mention of the ceasefire agreement comes even as Israel seemingly increases their aggressiveness in the ground offensive against Hamas militants to southern Gaza after air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians, including civilians reported to be sheltering at two schools.

Gaza Strip — At least 30 premature babies were evacuated from Gaza's main hospital on Sunday and will be transferred to facilities in Egypt, the territory's Health Ministry said. Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the ministry, confirmed the evacuation in a phone call with The Associated Press. A World Health Organization team that visited Shifa Hospital on Saturday said 32 babies were among scores of critically ill patients stranded at the hospital, where Israeli forces have been operating since last week.

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Dabur India CEO Mohit Malhotra in an interview with news agency PTI. Dabur recorded a significant increase in its domestic sales from South India, now accounting for 20% of its total sales, and has witnessed a doubling of its business in the region over the past 5-6 years. In response to this growth, the company is actively identifying market-specific gaps and needs, aiming to introduce customized products tailored to the preferences of these markets.

Indian Air Force (IAF) C17 aircraft, carrying 32 tonnes of aid for civilians in Gaza caught up in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, on Sunday departed for the El-Arish Airport in Egypt. Taking to his official handle on X, External Affairs Minister S Jaishanker reaffirmed New Delhi's commitment to extend humanitarian assistance to Gazans, posting, «We continue to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Palestine. Second @IAF_MCC C17 aircraft carrying 32 tonnes of aid departs for the El-Arish Airport in Egypt.» Earlier, India sent 38 tonnes of humanitarian relief for civilians caught up in the ongoing ground offensive by the Israeli forces in the Strip. The aid package comprised fluids and painkillers.

FMCG and ayurvedic products maker Dabur is planning to set up a new factory in South India in less than a year's time, as its business scales in the region, according to company's CEO Mohit Malhotra. Dabur, which now gets 20 per cent of its domestic sales from South India with its business there doubling in the last 5-6 years, is identifying gaps and usages to launch products customised to the markets, he told PTI in an interview.

The team was able to tour Shifa Hospital for an hour after about 2,500 displaced people, mobile patients and medical staff left the sprawling compound Saturday morning, said the World Health Organization, which led the mission. «Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health, and pleaded for evacuation,» the agency said, describing Shifa as a death zone. It said more teams will attempt to reach Shifa in coming days to try to evacuate the patients to southern Gaza, where hospitals are also overwhelmed.

Israel prepared on Sunday to expand its offensive against Hamas militants to southern Gaza after air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians, including civilians reported to be sheltering at two schools. After earlier in the week dropping leaflets, Israel on Saturday again warned civilians in parts of southern Gaza to relocate as it girds for an onslaught in that part of the small coastal enclave, after subduing the north. Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini of UNRWA, the U.N. aid organization for Palestinian refugees, said on social media platform X that Israel bombarded two agency schools in the north.

One last dance for the IPO market. Regional copper explorer Fuse Minerals’ float was approved by the corporate regulator on Friday, paving the way for an ASX-listing before Christmas.

Cassie,' the two have settled the lawsuit she filed against the musician. According to a statement received by various publications, Diddy and Cassie settled their claims «to their mutual satisfaction.» Cassie, also known as Casandra Ventura, claimed in a lawsuit filed Thursday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that she underwent «over a decade» of Diddy's «violent behavior and disturbed demands.» Here is P Diddy's colorful dating history, which has seen the musician romantically linked with many women.

Gaza Strip on Saturday, ending a telecommunications blackout that forced the United Nations to shut down critical humanitarian aid deliveries because it was unable to coordinate its convoys. Meantime, an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis, killing at least 26 Palestinians, according to a doctor at the hospital where the bodies were taken. Early in the war, the Israeli military told civilians to flee northern Gaza, the target of its ground offensive, but also kept up its bombardment in the southern evacuation zone where Khan Younis is located. Israel has signalled plans to expand its offensive south while continuing operations in the north, including Gaza City, where troops were still searching the territory's biggest hospital, Shifa, for traces of a Hamas command centre that Israel alleges was located under the building — a claim Hamas and the hospital staff deny. In Khan Younis, the attack early Saturday hit Hamad City, a middle-class housing development built in recent years with funding from Qatar. In addition to the 26 people killed, another 20 were wounded, said Dr.

Amit Shah, while campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in poll-bound Telangana on November 18, said the party would abolish religion-based reservation and increase the quota of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) if elected to power. In Telangana, backward members of the minority Muslim community are currently eligible for four percent reservation in education and government jobs. The state's overall Muslim population is estimated to be 12.7 percent, on the basis of the last census.

Donald Trump can remain on the state's presidential primary ballot, said Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace on Friday. He rejected the arguments that Trump violated his oath of office by engaging in an insurrection. This came after similar court decisions in Minnesota and Michigan that left Trump on the ballot in those states, according to a report published by AFP. The rulings mark a victory for the former Republican President as he staves off well-funded legal challenges seeking to bar his return to the White House in elections next year.

United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. Israel announced that it will allow for the first time two tanker trucks of fuel daily into Gaza for the U.N. and communications systems.

Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, and Jacques Audiard are part of the group of 500 French cinema professionals who have endorsed an open letter in support of a silent peace march set to take place in Paris this Sunday. The initiative, organized in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict and its ongoing global impact, is being led by the recently established collective known as «Une Autre Voix» (Another Voice). The letter emphasizes that the ongoing fratricidal war impacts everyone, irrespective of individual reasons or affiliations on either side of the conflict.

Ukraine's marine corps said on Friday it has secured multiple bridgeheads on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region in fighting it described as having left nearly 3,500 Russians killed or wounded and dozens of ammunition depots, tanks, armoured vehicles and other weaponry destroyed. The Marine Infantry Command's claims are the first to come directly from the Ukrainian military about advances across one of Russia's most significant strategic barriers.

magnitude 6.7 earthquake rattled the southern Philippine region of Mindanao on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said, and while there were no immediate reports of casualties, authorities warned of damage. The quake struck off the shore of Mindanao, near General Santos City at a depth of 60 km (37.3 miles), GFZ said. The German agency earlier reported the magnitude at 6.9. The Philippine seismology agency PHIVOLCS and the Pacific Tsunamic Warning Center said a tsunami was not expected. Amor Mio, police chief of Koronadal city, near the quake's epicentre, said there were no reports of casualties but officials were checking a shopping mall reported to have been damaged. «The employees were ordered evacuated for their safety.

ANI, that a joint operation by the Army and Jammu & Kashmir Police is in progress at Behrot in Budhal of Rajouri district. The encounter broke out in the morning during a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) by a joint team of army, police and CRPF in Guller-Behrote area of Budhal tehsil, after inputs of suspicious movement in the area.

PTI. However, the US Geological Survey said that the quake measured magnitude 6.7 and was located 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Burias at the southern tip of the Philippines.

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