- Friday, 4 April 2025
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill over 50 Palestinians
Overnight strikes by Israel killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Thursday, a day after senior government officials said Israel would seize large areas of Gaza and establish a new security corridor across the Palestinian territory.
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Trump's tariffs are a longtime goal fulfilled - and his biggest gamble yet
Donald Trump's politics have shifted considerably over his decades in the public sphere. But one thing he has been consistent on, since the 1980s, is his belief that tariffs are an effective means of boosting the US economy.
Over 30 killed in military operation in Gaza
Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize "large areas," the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals inside the Palestinian territory said Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday had killed more than 30 people, nearly a dozen of them children.
Worried families and search dogs bond during rescue effort
For most of the day, somberness clouded over a makeshift shelter set up for grief-stricken relatives of dozens of workers who remain missing at the building collapse in Bangkok. They huddled together, a short distance from the rubble, awaiting news for their loved ones to be found.
Top Gun and Batman actor Val Kilmer dies aged 65
Actor Val Kilmer, who starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died at the age of 65.
Myanmar's Junta rejects quake ceasefire, death toll hits 2,719
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar’s ruling junta, has categorically rejected ceasefire proposals from ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) intended to facilitate desperately needed earthquake relief. Instead, he has declared a continuation of military operations, a move that directly undermines humanitarian efforts as the earthquake’s death toll escalates to 2,719 with 400 still missing and over 4,000 injured.
Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech after 24 hours
US Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech ever delivered in the Senate.
PM Oli, Thai PM Shinawatra holds meeting
A courtesy meeting has been held between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Prime Minister of Thailand Paetongtran Shinawatra, today.
The man mourning 170 loved ones lost in Myanmar's earthquake
As the call to prayer rang out in Sagaing last Friday, hundreds of Muslims hurried to the five mosques in central Myanmar.
Women take tough new jobs in machinery and mines
Kateryna Koliadiuk was curious. The 19-year-old Ukrainian agronomy student spotted an ad seeking women to enroll in a tractor driving course and decided to try. But the industrial vehicle was huge and complex, and she wasn't sure she could operate it.
Israeli airstrike kills at least 3 in Beirut
The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut's southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least three people, in an attack it said targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group.
Survivors still being found from Myanmar quake
Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthqu
Flight carrying over 200 people turns around after passenger tries to force open plane door
A flight carrying more than 200 people from Bali, Indonesia to Melbourne, Australia was forced to turn around after a passenger tried to force open a plane door as the aircraft flew over the Indian Ocean, low-cost carrier Jetstar said in a statement Tuesday. “We had an aircraft return to Denpasar (Bali’s airport) last night after a disruptive passenger attempted to open one of the aircraft doors and was abusive to our crew,” the airline said of the incident on Monday night, March 31.
