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Aug 27, 2025 - World

Latest deaths announced by Gaza health ministry bring starvation toll to 313, including 119 childrenChildren make up a third of outpatients treated for wounds at MSF Gaza hospitals, data showsTen Palestinians including two children have died from starvation in the last 24 hours, health authorities in Gaza said on Wednesday, as Pope Leo XIV demanded that Israel stop its “collective punishment” of the population in the besieged territory.At least 313 people have died from hunger, including 119 children, since the war in Gaza began and Israel intensified its siege on the Palestinian territory. Last week a UN-backed monitoring body confirmed that Gaza was in the throes of famine and warned that without more aid, increasing numbers of people would lose access to food. Continue reading...

Aug 27, 2025 - World

Demonstrators have hurled rocks at a convoy carrying Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Mieli as his campaign caravan cut through Buenos Aires province, the cradle of the country’s left-leaning opposition movement

Aug 27, 2025 - World

Indian exports to the United States have been hit with one of the harshest trade penalties in recent history-- a 50 per cent tariff.

Aug 27, 2025 - World

Spokesperson says government in ‘fighting spirit’ after PM called confidence vote he is expected to loseEmmanuel Macron has given his “full support” to France’s beleaguered prime minister, François Bayrou, who is expected to lose a confidence vote next month, which would be likely to cause the government to collapse.Macron chaired a cabinet meeting on Wednesday as France faces a fresh political crisis. The government spokesperson, Sophie Primas, said after the meeting that Macron fully supported Bayrou and the government was in a “fighting spirit”. Continue reading...

Aug 27, 2025 - World

State media report that Ali K, 23, was wounded by shots allegedly fired by a female relative of his wifeA groom has died of injuries he sustained from celebratory gunfire after his wedding in northern Turkey.As the newlyweds were being escorted home after the ceremony, the groom, identified as Ali K aged 23, was wounded by gunfire, allegedly at the hands of a female relative of his wife, the state news agency Anadolu reported. Continue reading...