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Doctors Without Borders says Israel has 'manufactured malnutrition crisis' in Gaza

Health May 7, 2026

Doctors Without Borders on Thursday accused Israel of having deliberately restricted food and aid in Gaza, creating a “manufactured malnutrition crisis” with particularly devastating impacts on in...

Motorbike gunmen kill BJP political aide in India's West Bengal

News May 7, 2026

Gunmen on motorbikes in India’s West Bengal ambushed and killed a political aide from the ruling Hindu-nationalist party days after it swept state elections, police said Thursday. Prime Minister Nar...

Israeli court rejects flotilla activists’ plea challenging detention

News May 7, 2026

• Israeli rights group calls decision ‘unlawful and unreasonable’• UN, Brazil, Spain demand swift release of the two activists BEERSHEVA: An Israeli court on Wednesday rejected an appeal conte...

Pioneering CNN founder Ted Turner dead at 87

Business May 6, 2026

Ted Turner, the flamboyant US entrepreneur who transformed television news with the creation of CNN in 1980, died at the age of 87, the network said on Wednesday. The moustached southerner, yachting e...

China says will play 'greater role' in ending Middle East conflict

News May 6, 2026

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing would play a “greater role” in ending hostilities in the Middle East during talks with his Iranian counterpart on Wednesday, a week before US Presid...

4 killed in post-poll unrest in India's West Bengal

News May 6, 2026

Four people have been killed in political unrest after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party celebrated victory in state polls in West Bengal, police and party officials said...

Bondi Beach mass shooting accused faces 19 extra charges

News May 6, 2026

A man accused of murdering 15 people in an anti-Semitic mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach is facing a raft of fresh charges, court records released on Wednesday showed. Naveed Akram is accuse...

Jury convicts four from Palestine Action over UK break-in

Technology May 6, 2026

LONDON: A jury on Tuesday convicted four Palestine Action activists of criminal damage in 2024 at the UK premises of Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems, the first convictions in the protracted, high-p...

US threatens 'devastating' response to any Iran attack on shipping

News May 5, 2026

The United States is “not looking for a fight” over the Strait of Hormuz, and its ceasefire with Iran still holds, but any attack on commercial shipping will be met with a “devastating” respon...

Israel court extends Gaza flotilla activists' detention by six days

News May 5, 2026

An Israeli court on Tuesday extended the detention of two foreign activists taken from a Gaza-bound flotilla by six days, a lawyer representing them said. Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilia...