Medical evacuees from Gaza entered Egypt on Monday as the Rafah border crossing reopened, marking a key step in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic one. Few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will pass through. Ambulances waited for hours at the border before ferrying patients across after […]
Continue ReadingMorocco has evacuated more than 50,000 people, nearly half the population of the northwestern city of Ksar el-Kebir, as flooding driven by weeks of heavy rain threatened to inundate the city, state media said on Monday. “The city has become a ghost town,” local resident Hicham Ajttou told Reuters by phone. “All markets and shops […]
Continue ReadingNorwegian police said on Monday they have detained the eldest son of Norway’s crown princess over fresh criminal allegations against him ahead of a separate trial this week in which he faces multiple charges of rape and other crimes. Police in a statement said Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit and stepson […]
Continue ReadingPunxsutawney Phil is said to be predicting six more weeks of wintry weather after he saw his shadow on Monday. His annual prediction was translated by his handlers at Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club says that when Phil is deemed to have not seen his shadow, that means there will be […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump has threatened to sue Grammys host Trevor Noah after a joke he made about Jeffrey Epstein on stage. The US President blasted the comedian as a “total loser”, adding: “It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$.” […]
Continue ReadingAn 18-year-old Swiss national has died in hospital from injuries sustained in the Swiss Alpine bar fire, bringing the death toll to 41 a month after the tragedy. The Swiss public prosecutor said on Sunday that the teenager had died in a Zurich hospital on Saturday. The prosecutor said in a statement that no further […]
Continue ReadingThe next round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, Volodymyr Zelensky has announced. Envoys from Russia, Ukraine and the US had been expected to meet next week in Abu Dhabi to continue negotiations aimed at ending Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbour. The Ukrainian president said in […]
Continue ReadingThe US military and civilian leaders of Washington’s flagship mission for Gaza are stepping aside and their replacements have yet to be made public, diplomats said, as European countries rethink their presence in the initiative to shape post-war Gaza. The top military officer at the Civil-Military Command Center, a three-star lieutenant general, is expected to […]
Continue ReadingUkraine is awaiting signs that Russia is abiding by a commitment US president Donald Trump said Moscow had made to temporarily halt attacks on Ukraine’s power grid, as Kyiv and other regions suffer their bitterest winter weather for years. Mr Trump said Russian president Vladimir Putin had agreed to his request not to target the […]
Continue ReadingUS President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed not fire on Kyiv for a week due to cold weather. “I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week, and he agreed to do that,” Trump said at a Cabinet meeting, citing “extraordinary cold” in the […]
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