A first aid ship plying a new maritime corridor from Cyprus began unloading its cargo of desperately needed food in Gaza on Friday as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war.
Full StoryA U.S. charity said Saturday its team in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip had finished unloading the first maritime aid shipment to reach the besieged territory.
"All cargo was offloaded and is being readied for distribution in Gaza," World Central Kitchen said in a statement, noting that the aid was "almost 200 tons of food."
Full StoryA woman set fire to a voting booth Friday at a polling station in southern Moscow on the first day of presidential elections, Russian state and independent media reported.
The RIA Novosti news agency said a "woman set alight a polling booth" in the capital, while the independent SOTA outlet published video of a woman walking up to a booth before calmly stepping out of it as it was in flames, saying it was in the southern Marino district.
Full StoryHamas has proposed a new six-week truce in Gaza and an exchange of several dozen Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official from the militant group told AFP on Friday.
"The agreement is for a six-week ceasefire and a prisoner exchange," the official said after weeks of so far fruitless mediation efforts, adding that the group would want this to lead to "a complete (Israeli) withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a permanent ceasefire".
Full StoryFrench President Emmanuel Macron for half a decade sought to cultivate a partnership with Russia but has now become an implacable foe of the Kremlin, warning that Vladimir Putin poses a threat not just to Ukraine but the security of all Europeans.
Weeks after taking office in 2017, Macron signalled his intentions towards Russia by rolling out the red carpet for Putin at a summit in the former royal residence of the Versailles Palace.
Full StoryMoscow said Friday it had repelled all attempts by pro-Ukrainian fighters to capture territory in Russian border regions, following an increase in attacks this week ahead of Russia's presidential elections.
"Over the past three days, from March 12 to 14, troops of the Russian Armed Forces ... foiled all attempts by Ukrainian militants to break through into the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation," the defense ministry said.
Full StoryMedics said on Thursday that a man in his 50s was "seriously injured" in a stabbing attack in central Israel, and police said the assailant was "neutralised".
The Magen David Adom emergency service said the attack occurred outside Beit Kama kibbutz roughly 55 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem.
Full StoryAn explosion on Thursday at a gas depot near Tunisia's capital injured 35 people, four of them severely, civil protection services said.
"Around 6:15 am, a gas leak caused the explosion of gas cylinders in the premises of a distribution company in the oil field in Rades", southeast of Tunis, civil protection spokesperson Moez Triaa told AFP.
Full StoryAn Israeli general leading troops in Gaza has delivered rare public criticism of the country's political leadership, demanding it "be worthy" of the soldiers fighting against Hamas in the Palestinian territory.
Brigadier General Dan Goldfus, head of the 98th division deployed in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Younis, also appeared to enter into a row over exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
Full StoryOne person has been killed and another three have been injured following fresh aerial attacks on Russia's border region of Belgorod, the regional governor said Thursday.
"As a result of an explosion, a car driven by a female civilian overturned into a ditch. The woman died on the spot from her injuries," Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on social media, adding three more people had been wounded by shrapnel.
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