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Condemnation has poured in after an Israeli air raid killed dozens of people in the al-Mawasi area of Gaza, which had been designated a “safe zone” by Israel, according to Gaza authorities. At least 90 people were killed and 300 others were wounded in Saturday’s attack, according to Palestinian authorities, which Israeli officials said targeted Hamas military commander, Mohammed Deif, and another senior figure in the armed group. Speaking to reporters hours later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “not absolutely certain” if Deif had been killed. Hamas has rejected the premise of the assault as “false”, saying that “defenceless civilians”…

Ankara has carried out repeated ground operations against Kurdish fighters, launching its most recent in 2022.Turkey will soon end its latest ground military operation in northern Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Speaking to military academy graduates on Saturday, Erdogan hailed Operation Claw-Lock, which Ankara launched in April 2022, as a success. He said Kurdish fighters were now “incapable of acting inside our borders”. “We will close the lock very soon in the Claw Operation Zone in northern Iraq,” Erdogan said, according to the Reuters news agency. The Turkish leader did not give a timeline for the end of…

In France, a shock election win for the left was no thanks to French media.The French far right may have been defeated at the polls, but much of the press remains sympathetic to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. How will the incoming left-wing coalition navigate a hostile media and a hung parliament? Contributors:Matthieu Bidan – Co-editor-in-chief, Street PressCatherine Fieschi – Fellow, Robert Schuman CentreCarine Fouteau – President, MediapartTheophile Kouamouo – Host, Le Media On our radar: Israel has maintained its onslaught on Gaza, attacking schools, killing journalists and ordering all citizens of Gaza City to leave their homes. Meenakshi Ravi…

Israel has tried for years to dismantle the UNRWA, which helps Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere.The United Nations chief has led an internationally backed effort to support its agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) but has yet to persuade its biggest Western donors. The United States and the United Kingdom, key allies of Israel, have continued to financially block the main organisation delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. Fourteen of the 16 donor nations resumed funding after suspending it in January, when Israel accused members of the organisation of having taken part in the October…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Al-Mawasi, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, has been targeted numerous times since October.More than 70 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds are wounded in Israeli military strikes on al-Mawasi, located west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Saturday put the death toll at 71 people and said 289 others were injured, including some critically wounded. The attack by Israeli warplanes targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians and a water distillation unit in an area that a Gaza civil defence spokesperson told Al Jazeera was designated a “safe zone” by…

Benghazi, Libya – It happened in the middle of the night, as most destructive operations carried out without the consent of the local population are. In March 2023, an area of Benghazi’s historical centre including several buildings of Italian colonial heritage, was razed to the ground. So unexpected was the operation conducted by the Libyan military, that even Benghazi’s mayor was taken by surprise. The raid on the historic city centre was carried out to clear the debris left behind by past and ongoing conflicts, and to clear the way for a new, modern centre. The reconstruction has not been…

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son marries on Friday in a lavish ceremony that has been a hot talking point at home and abroad, with his father’s $260bn-conglomerate Reliance taking to social media to heavily publicise the event. Reliance’s efforts, coupled with posts from a host of Bollywood stars and coverage in media, have helped whip up public interest in the wedding, overshadowing some critical social media posts that have questioned the opulence at a time of growing inequality in India. Ambani’s youngest son Anant, 29, is marrying his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant, 29, in a star-studded ceremony in Mumbai that will…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Local authorities say dozens of bodies, mostly of ‘families, women, and children’, recovered in Gaza City after partial Israeli withdrawal from Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood. Source link

The data of nearly all customers of the telecommunications giant AT&T was downloaded to a third-party platform in a security breach, the company has said, as cyberattacks against businesses, schools and health systems continue to spread globally. The breach, which was announced by the company on Friday, took place largely over five months in 2022. It hit customers of AT&T’s mobile customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as its landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers. Approximately 109 million customer accounts were affected, according to AT&T, which said that it currently does not believe that the…

The company could be fined up to 6 percent of its total worldwide annual turnover if the findings are later confirmed.Elon Musk’s social media platform X is in breach of the European Union’s online content law, according to preliminary findings by regulators that could lead to hefty fines for the company. The European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-member bloc, announced on Friday that the social media platform is violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to “dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers”. The investigation, which opened in December, arrived at its preliminary findings…