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The Israeli army raided the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, leaving 14 people wounded as troops fanned out across the city centre, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

Tensions have remained high in the occupied West Bank since Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel which sparked the Gaza war, with repeated raids by the Israeli army on Palestinian population centres, particularly in the north.

The Red Crescent said at least 14 people were wounded in the latest raid. Seven were hit by live…

When Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez announced their engagement this month, two things stood out: the outsized diamond ring, and their unmarried cohabitation in conservative Saudi Arabia.

The celebrity couple and their blended brood of five children have been living in the birthplace of Islam for more than two years, untroubled by laws against extra-marital relationships.

Their situation highlights the fact that while authorities now turn a blind eye for foreigners, such privileges…

China on Tuesday expressed “shock” over the killing of journalists by Israel in Gaza, urging an end to the war in the besieged Palestinian enclave, Anadolu reports.

“We are shocked by the tragic death of medical workers and journalists yet again in the Gaza conflict. We condemn the attack and mourn for the victims and express sympathies for the families of the victims,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing.

He was reacting to…

By Emily Rose

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -As Israelis staged a “Day of Disruption” to pressure their government to win the release of hostages in Gaza, Doron Steinbrecher reflected on her 471 days in captivity and said she hoped all the remaining hostages would be set free soon.

“I begged them not to kill me,” she said in an interview with Reuters as hostage families rallied to call for an end to the nearly two-year-old war.

Nowadays she can only pray that the remaining 50 hostages in Gaza, of whom…