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800 killed in Gaza since May 27 trying to get aid: UN

Nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's sites, the UN said Friday. An officially private effort, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operations on May 26

Gaza civil defence says Israeli strikes kill seven

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Friday killed at least seven people, including five at a school-turned-shelter in the Palestinian territory's north. "Five martyrs and others injured in an Israeli strike on Halima al-Saadia School, which was sheltering

Nobel laureate Mohammadi says Iran issuing death threats

Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for women's and human rights in Iran, has received death threats from Tehran, the Nobel Committee said Friday. Mohammadi, who has spent much of the past decade behind bars, was released from

Israel pounds Gaza as PM hopes truce deal within reach

Israeli forces were targeting "terrorist infrastructure" in southern Gaza, the military said Friday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced hope that an agreement with Hamas could be reached within days for a pause in the 21-month war. Negotiators from Israel and the

Kurdish PKK fighters to begin disarming at key ceremony

PKK fighters were to begin laying down their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state. The disarmament ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the Kurdistan

Kurdish PKK fighters destroy weapons at key ceremony

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state. The ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the Kurdistan Workers'