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Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that at least 55,104 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.

Some 64 percent of Israelis believe that “there are no innocents” in the Gaza Strip, signaling a surge in extremist views in Israeli society, according to a new survey, the Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday.

The survey by the…

Weinstein, once one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood, had been accused of rape and assaults.

A jury in New York City has found Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced, former movie mogul, guilty on a sex crimes charge in a retrial after a state appeals court last year overturned its initial 2020 conviction, which had been an inflection point for the #MeToo movement.

Jurors, in a majority-female jury,  reached their verdict Wednesday on the fifth day of at times quarrelsome…

Kagiso Rabada was suspended from cricket only six weeks ago, midway through a stint in the Indian Premier League.

The South Africa seamer received a standing ovation from the crowd at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London on Wednesday.

The accolade was for Rabada starring in the World Test Championship final by taking 5-51 in 15.4 overs to help South Africa rout defending champion Australia for 212 on day one.

“You always felt on this wicket, any ball had their name on it,” he said.

The…

Doctors for Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe say his brain shows increased activity and his blood pressure and heart rate are stabilising, though his life is still in danger from a bullet wound to the head.

Brian Wilson, the singer-songwriter who co-created the iconic Beach Boys rock band, has died, his family said in a statement. He was 82.

“We are at a loss for words right now,” the statement said. “We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world.”

The statement did not disclose a cause of death. Wilson had suffered from dementia and was unable to care for himself after his wife Melinda Wilson died in early 2024, prompting his family to put him under conservatorship.

The seizure of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters has not deterred other aid convoys from heading towards Gaza. Palestinian-American writer Ahmad Ibsais explains how humanitarian aid has become a politically charged weapon of war.

New York, US – Miguel Olave lives in a quiet suburb outside Wichita, Kansas, called Derby. Every year, along with his wife Alexis, Olave takes his four boys on a vacation somewhere around the United States, like Disney World or New York. This year, however, the family’s annual tradition is on pause.

“We kind of decided a few weeks ago that we just weren’t going to be doing a trip this summer because of all the unknowns,” Olave told Al Jazeera.

Olave said one of the reasons for the…