Top Hamas officials are now saying they expect a ceasefire within days but the air strikes continue.

I discuss with my friends how to prepare for the next, inevitable attack. We ask each other: have you packed your bags? Have you remembered all your documents? Food? Clothes for the children?

As a human rights lawyer, Rachel Lord took a dim view of Israel until she lived there with her children while her husband, Dave Sharma, served as Australia’s ambassador. Now she doesn’t take a firm position on who is right or wrong in the conflic...

The prime ministers of Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia condemned Western nations for vaccine nationalism as Asia endures its fourth COVID wave.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, telling him the US is seeking “a more stable and predictable relationship with Moscow”.

The city-state used a new ‘fake news’ law to order social media giants to correct claims from New Delhi’s chief minister about a Singapore virus variant.

Italian prosecutors claim the 93-year-old actress’ former assistant “exploited her vulnerability” when he sold more than $500,000 worth of her art and antiques.

“Every morning when I awake, every night when I sleep, I think of you,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told the crowd of police.

A new book claims Obama preferred Trump as president over rival Ted Cruz, believing that the hard-right Texas senator would take the country in a dangerous direction.

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Biden came into office without any grand plans to reshape the Middle East. His main focus has been on strategic competition with China. But presidents do not get to choose which events they must respond to. 

After hanging out underground for 17 years, a new brood of periodical cicadas has officially popped up in people’s back gardens.

Of all the thousands of deaths in India in recent days, these two seemed to really unsettle people, perhaps because the twins were just in their 20s and had looked so healthy.

Over the past two days, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell worked to kill a bipartisan bill to establish the commission to investigate the violence that left five dead.

The landing made China only the third nation to touch down safely on Mars, after the United States and, very briefly, the Soviet Union.

The former US president attacked New York state’s attorney-general for launching a criminal probe of his family business, saying he was “being unfairly attacked and abused”.

The US President greatly increased pressure on Israel to end the war with the Palestinians, telling Benjamin Netanyahu that he expected “significant de-escalation” by day’s end.

The baby will be the first for Beatrice, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, and her property developer husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.

High Commissioner George Brandis told Tory MPs that opposition to the deal had “no basis in fact, reality or economics”.

Israeli attacks have damaged at least 18 hospitals and clinics and destroyed one health facility, the World Health Organisation said. Nearly half of all essential drugs have run out.

The developments threaten to wedge sponsors of the Olympics teams and the Australian government as the Brisbane Games bid hangs in the balance.

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French gastronomes were aghast when Alain Ducasse, who has the most Michelin stars in the world, announced he was leaving his Plaza Athenee vegetarian restaurant.

A quick guide to the high-tech shield that’s changed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

China’s Defence Ministry said the transit of the US guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur through the Strait was “sabotaging the regional situation”.

Former president Donald Trump faces two probes into his company’s finances, one by the Manhattan District Attorney and another by New York’s attorney general Letitia James.

Laws are meant to protect civilians during war and alleviate their suffering. Australia must ensure both Hamas and Israel are held accountable when they breach them.

Riad Ishkontana was buried in the wreckage of his Gaza home with his children, “listening to their voices beneath the rubble”. Suzy is the only survivor.

Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings tweeted he was willing to sell or disclose secret coronavirus plans that would expose disastrous early decisions.

Air France flight 342 flew with a 16 per cent mix of sustainable aviation fuel in its fuel tanks, produced in France by Total from used cooking oil.

The idea of corporations and political figures boycotting the games - while allowing athletes to compete - is gaining momentum on both sides of US politics.

His film career began with a small role in Rosemary’s Baby in 1968. He achieved leading man status four years later with The Heartbreak Kid.

Some believe Rabat had initially allowed the migrant surges as a means of pressuring Madrid over its decision to admit a rebel leader from the Western Sahara to a Spanish hospital.

Jenny McGee stood at the side of the British Prime Minister when he was hospitalised with COVID-19 last year. Now she has resigned, citing lack of government support for health care workers.

Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border rocket fire on Tuesday after a brief overnight lull.

The Indian Navy has mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission for 81 oil workers and crew whose barge sank in heavy seas following a powerful cyclone.

India’s total virus cases swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Scott Morrison’s adviser Brendan Pearson told South Korean business leaders there was “a big risk if it becomes natural for countries to dictate” carbon taxes.

The mission to raise Indonesia’s Nanggala submarine wreck from the seabed near Bali has found two life rafts but there’s no sign of the 53 men onboard.

The US top military chief General Mark Milley warned the conflict could spread “and you risk a whole series of negative consequences if the fighting continues”.

A new climate change roadmap calls on advanced economies to phase out dirty coal-fired power plants by 2030 - a decade ahead of developing nations.

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By hearing the case in their next term, the conservative-majority bench will look at whether to overturn a central part of the decades-old ruling.

A new Kyrgyzstan law allows the government to take control of the company for three months if, as RFERL reports, the company “damages or endangers the local environment”.

The deal would see the required salary threshold lowered and the minimum duration of a work contract reduced. The recognition of professional skills in the IT sector would be facilitated.

The deal was a worrying development for Matt Gaetz the Republican from Florida under investigation into whether he violated sex trafficking laws by paying the a 17-year-old for sex.

A country’s fertility rate falls as it grows richer. But in China’s case, it’s quite abnormal.

Twenty-two flights from Britain were due to land in Portugal on Monday, with most heading to the southern Algarve region, famous for its beaches and golf courses.

The US President also revealed he was co-ordinating an “entirely new” multilateral effort with other democracies to vastly increase the global supply of vaccines.

The most powerful cyclone in more than two decades, which has already killed at least 16 people and left a trail of destruction, has now made landfall in the state of Gujarat.