Postcards: Egypt’s cratering economy drives many to risky migrant route
MARIAM RIZK, of Reuters, reports from the village of Mit Suhayl…
Turkey has caught 2,554 fugitives since Ankara bomb attack, minister says
Ankara, TurkeyReuters Turkish authorities have captured 2,554 fugitives as part of a nationwide counter-terrorism operation launched after Kurdish militants detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara a week ago, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Sunday. Turkey said this week all targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia and the Syrian […]
Colombia, EMC armed group begin peace talks, ceasefire
Tibu, Colombia Reuters Colombia’s government and the country’s largest group of dissident former FARC rebels on Sunday began peace talks and started a 10-month bilateral ceasefire in a bid to end the group’s role in almost six decades of internal conflict, the rebel group announced. The negotiations with the Estado Mayor Central – a dissident group […]
Analysis – Israeli hostages complicate plan for ‘mighty vengeance’ against Hamas
Jerusalem/Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s options for hitting Hamas over its deadly incursion into Israel could be reined in by concern for the many Israelis seized in the raid, as a nation scarred by past hostage crises faces perhaps its worst one yet. In a dramatic assault launched from Gaza on Saturday, […]
Gaza Strip suffers deadliest day in 15 years after Hamas attack
Gaza Reuters The Gaza Strip has suffered its deadliest day in 15 years in the wake of an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, to which Israel responded with air strikes that killed nearly 300 Palestinians in 24 hours, according to Palestinian officials. The dead included three-month-old twins, killed with their mother and three sisters […]
Israelis recount terrified flight as Hamas gunmen attack dance party
Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters Arik Nani went to a dance party in southern Israel to celebrate his 26th birthday on Friday night but ended up fleeing a massacre as missiles roared overhead and Hamas gunmen shot down people as they tried to escape. Thousands of young people attended the Nature Party, near Kibbutz Re’im close to […]
Israel UN envoy decries “war crimes”, UN Security Council meets
New York, USReuters Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday accused Palestinian Islamist group Hamas of war crimes, vowing that it was time to “obliterate Hamas terror infrastructure” while seeking to keep normalisation talks with Saudi Arabia on track. In a dramatic assault launched from the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Saturday, Hamas militants […]
Israel pounds Gaza after deadly Hamas raid as conflict threatens to spiral
Jerusalem/Gaza Reuters Israel pounded the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Sunday, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for one of the bloodiest attacks in its history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more. Hamas fighters’ rampage through Israel towns on Saturday was the deadliest such incursion since Egypt and Syria’s attacks […]
Afghan earthquakes kill 2,445, Taliban say, as deaths mount
Updated: 7:30am, 9th October (AEST)Kabul, AfghanistanReuters More than 2,400 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years. The Saturday quakes in the west of the country hit 35 kilometres north-west of the city of Herat, with one of […]
Israeli forces clash with Hamas gunmen after hundreds killed
Jerusalem/Gaza/Sderot, IsraelReuters Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched a surprise attack on Israel in which about 500 people were killed in the deadliest day of violence in Israel for 50 years. The conflict was spreading, with fire from Lebanon into northern Israel, which […]