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India had outright rejected the move as "senseless" and asserted that assigning "invented" names does not alter the reality that the state "is, has been, and will always be" an integral part of India.

If the draft resolution is adopted, it would mark the first time that the United Nations' top rights body has taken a position on the war raging in Gaza.

Kharif crops, or monsoon crops, including rice, maize, sugarcane and cotton are sown in April and require a wet and warm climate with high levels of rainfall.

Officials said the quake was the strongest to shake the island in decades, and warned of more tremors in the days ahead.

“The Cabinet did not discuss it as it was never raised," Bandula Gunawardena, the Cabinet spokesman and minister of information, told reporters here today.

Monday's toll update was released hours after the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, after a two-week operation that saw heavy fighting.

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About 12,000 medical interns and residents in South Korea have been on strike for six weeks, causing hundreds of cancelled surgeries and other treatments at university hospitals.

The WHO says about 9,000 patients in Gaza urgently need to be evacuated abroad for life-saving treatment.

After Maldives, Bangladesh is the second country where the opposition took up the ‘India Out’ campaign.

Three people including a 13-year-old boy were wounded in Thursday's attack near the city of Jericho, in which a car was also hit.

Treading barefoot over the ancient paving stones dressed in robes, American James Joseph, a longtime Jerusalem resident known as the "Jesus Guy", compared the Gaza war to the biblical story of the "slaughter of the innocents", when King…

Other videos from inside the restaurant show smashed windows, broken furniture and damaged equipment.

Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa borrowed heavily from China for projects that many criticised as a debt trap that led to the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka's history.

Six of them were killed in Israeli dawn raids on locations in the countryside of Aleppo city in northern Syria, while a seventh was killed in an Israeli drone attack on a car on the main road between Bazourieh

Syrian state news agency SANA said the pre-dawn strike killed and wounded civilians, as well as military personnel.

Mediators from the United States, Egypt and Qatar have tried to secure a truce in Gaza, but those talks appear deadlocked more than halfway through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Beijing and Manila have a long history of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea and there have been repeated confrontations between their vessels near disputed reefs in recent months.

Netanyahu cancelled the trip this week after the UN vote to demand a cease-fire in Hamas-run Gaza; the US abstained from the vote but did not veto it.

Ten people were initially reported missing and dozens of homes were damaged, forcing hundreds to evacuate.