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Here what you need to know: Israel Re-Intensifies Violence With Syria Israel says it launched new airstrikes on a Syrian military headquarters near Damascus and hit “dozens of military targets” in retaliation for rockets fired earlier. The Syrian state news media confirmed the strike, saying it had caused damage to infrastructure and injured military personnel. The attack was a response to what Israeli officials describe as heightened threats by Syrian-backed militias near the border.The strike comes as regional turmoil has been brimming around Gaza and southern Lebanon in particular. Eyewitnesses…

At least 61 Palestinians were killed in the latest burst of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, health officials on the ground there said. The targeted airstrikes struck in multiple residential districts, flattening buildings and causing more families to flee. The victims included children and women. Hospitals in the area said they had received dozens of injured, including many in critical condition. As the strikes went on, rescue workers battled to reach people buried under rubble. The United Nations warned of rapidly growing malnutrition among Gaza’s population. Blocked access for aid, reduced…

A United Nations special rapporteur has urged the world to take action to halt what she called “Israel’s genocide” in Gaza.The silence of the international community is allowing even more violence and destruction to take a hold of Palestine,” the UN expert on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, cautioned. Thousands of Palestinians had killed since the start of the Israeli military action.Most victims are said to be women and children, according to recent health reports.The suffering in Gaza has reached a such a stage that…

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that relations between China and Australia had “turned around”, as he played host to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a high-level diplomacy meeting in Beijing. It is the first time in years that an Australian prime minister has travelled to China, and an indication of thawing relations from trade frictions and political tensions. Positive Remarks from Both Sides During the meeting, President Xi was positive about the outlook, noted that “the China-Australia relationship has recently experienced a turnaround and is developing in a…

Khartoum – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed almost 300 people over the last few days in North Kordofan, a leading human rights group said.The killings are among what appears to be a broader wave of violence in the war-stricken country. The monitoring group, which tracks human rights abuses in Sudan, said many of the dead were noncombatants, including women, children and elderly people. Most of the violence centered in and around Al-Fulah, the state capital of North Kordofan.Eyewitnesses said that RSF fighters invaded the villages, looted homes and…