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China continues a second day of war games and military drills around Taiwan, including simulated attacks on key targets.

China’s military said it has simulated attacks on high-value targets in Taiwan, including ports and energy facilities, as it carried out “live-fire” military drills around the self-ruled island on the second day of war-game exercises.

The drills on Wednesday, part of an operation titled “Strait Thunder-2025A”, were conducted in the middle and southern parts of the…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced an expansion of assaults in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Wednesday. Meanwhile, medical sources reported that 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on central and southern Gaza, most of them are women and children.

Israeli helicopters continued firing at areas in Khan Younis and Rafah. Dozens of families trapped in northern Rafah’s Khirbet Al-Adas called for international intervention.

Katz stated…

The ruling temporarily stops 26,000 unaccompanied minors from losing their legal representation.

A federal judge has ordered the United States government to temporarily restart funding for legal aid to migrant children travelling alone, saying it makes the immigration system fairer.

The order by US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of San Francisco on Tuesday prevents tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from losing their lawyers. It comes after President Donald Trump’s…

Pakistan’s difficult tour of New Zealand continues, with Mitch Hay leading the home team to a series-clinching victory at Seddon Park.

Mitchell Hay’s rollicking 99 not out, backed by some feisty seam bowling, steered New Zealand to an 84-run win over Pakistan to take an unbeatable lead in their one-day international (ODI) series.

New Zealand made 292-8 and bowled Pakistan out for 208 in the 42nd over at Seddon Park, Hamilton, in the second of three ODIs on Wednesday.

Hay’s lusty hitting…

Marsabit, Kenya – As the sun approaches its scorching zenith, Dukano Kelle heads out from the desolate settlement of Kambinye in northern Kenya, urging her family’s reluctant donkey forward by whipping it with an acacia branch.

Though the oppressive heat is energy-sapping – and despite not having eaten since the previous morning – Dukano, a 34-year-old mother of five, has no option but to walk for several hours to the nearest borehole, a journey that will likely end in disappointment…

Israel’s defence minister has announced a major expansion of the Israeli ground assault on Gaza, promising to seize large areas of the Palestinian enclave and incorporate them into so-called security zones.

The announcement on Wednesday came as Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of Gaza, killing at least 21 Palestinians since the early hours of the morning, and the United Nations reported that tens of thousands of people were fleeing the southern city of Rafah “under…

The actor described himself in a documentary on his career as being ‘blessed’ and having ‘no regrets’.

US actor Val Kilmer, who starred in Hollywood blockbuster films such as Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died of pneumonia at the age of 65.

Kilmer died on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, his daughter Mercedes Kilmer said in an email to The Associated Press news agency, after having recovered from a throat cancer diagnosis in 2014 that required two tracheotomies.

Kilmer, the youngest…