Tag: In Pictures
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US Women’s March 2024: Huge rally in DC to back Harris, abortion rights | US Election 2024 News
Thousands of women have rallied in Washington, DC, in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and reproductive rights. The vice president has made abortion rights a central plank of her White House bid against Republican Donald Trump, who appeared to have publicly backed the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that took away the constitutional right…
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Deadly Israel strike hits close to Beirut hospital | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Thirteen people, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli strike near a hospital in southern Beirut, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health says. The overnight attack near Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Lebanon’s biggest public health facility, located a few kilometres from the city centre, also wounded 57 people, the ministry said on Tuesday. Rescuers…
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Millions evacuate prior to Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida | In Pictures News
Millions of Florida residents have fled the US state as Hurricane Milton approaches, with officials there warning that those who stayed would “die” and that single-story homes would turn into “a coffin”. “We are a few hours away from an epic catastrophe,” Tampa Congresswoman Kathy Castor told CNN. The Tampa metropolitan area, home to more…
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How football brings joy and helps heal Palestinian children in Qatar | Israel-Palestine conflict
Doha, Qatar — It is Saturday afternoon and a small football pitch at a residential compound in Qatar is beginning to fill up with dozens of children ahead of their weekly football training. The complex, on the outskirts of the capital, Doha, is home to Palestinian families evacuated from Gaza over the past year –…
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All that’s left is a key: Palestinians fleeing Israel’s bombs dream of home | Israel-Palestine conflict
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – A year of war, displacement and horror has not made the people of Gaza forget the homes they had to leave behind to save their families from relentless Israeli bombing. Al Jazeera spoke to three women who are now living in a refugee camp near Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah. They…
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Israeli raids force 100,000 to flee Lebanon for Syria | Israel-Lebanon attacks News
Some 100,000 people have fled to Syria from Lebanon in a bid to escape Israeli air raids, according to the head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). “The number of people who have crossed into Syria from Lebanon fleeing Israeli airstrikes – Lebanese and Syrian nationals – has reached 100,000,” Filippo Grandi said on X…
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Hezbollah vs Israel – no end to the “reckoning”
The Israeli military’s latest attack on Lebanon threatens a third war between the two countries. Source link
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Thousands of people in south Lebanon flee intense Israeli bombardment | Gaza News
Israel launched hundreds of air attacks in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing more than 274 people, as the Israeli military called on residents to immediately evacuate places where it claimed that Hezbollah stores weapons. Thousands of people fled southern Lebanon, jamming the main highway to Beirut. At least 1,024 people were injured in…
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Sri Lanka’s tea estate workers courted by presidential candidates | Elections News
Whoever Sri Lanka’s next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn’t expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed the four children and elderly mother with whom she lives in a dilapidated room in a tea estate. Both leading candidates in Saturday’s presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands…
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Unsanctioned Israeli leaflets order Lebanon residents to evacuate | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Leaflets dropped on a Lebanon border village urging residents to leave were unsanctioned, the Israeli military has said. The leaflets, which were released on Sunday, were the first evacuation order that residents of south Lebanon have received amid 11 months of cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel, sparked by the war on Gaza. However, Israel’s…