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Jaffna

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visits Nallur Kandaswamy temple in Jaffna

barbaric attack

Israel Defence Forces: Hamas still holds 241 Israeli hostages

Antony Blinken

US State Secretary Antony Blinken lands in Tel Aviv amid Israel-Hamas conflict

AI Safety Institute

UK PM Rishi Sunak announces launch of AI Safety Institute

16 injured

32 killed, 16 injured after fire breaks out at drug rehabilitation centre in Iran

Gaza

Detained Gazans ask Israel’s High Court to release them to West Bank, meet their families

Belarus

Russia-Ukraine war: Top Kremlin official warns Poland’s actions could ‘unleash World War III’

blast

Five killed, over 20 injured in Dera Ismail Khan blast

15 people

At least 15 people injured after gas explosion, fire in New York’s Wappingers Falls

country

Biden says US continues to stand with Israel, affirms country has ‘right to defend’ itself

attacked

IDF: Over 8000 rockets fired at Israel, 2,50,000 Israeli civilians evacuate from their homes

ambassadors

Israel President meets envoys of countries whose nationals were taken hostage by Hamas

3000 Afghan migrants

More than 3000 Afghan migrants return to Afghanistan from Iran: Report

air defence

Russia’s Wagner group set to deliver air defence weapons to Hezbollah

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Four people killed, 10 others injured in two accidents in Balkh province

drones

Report: US surveillance drones flying over Gaza Strip to help in hostage rescue efforts

bombing plot

Israeli forces thwart shooting, bombing plot in Jerusalem

Foreign affairs

‘This is a war of self-defence after being attacked brutally’: Israel Foreign Ministry on war with Hamas

aid

House passes $14.3 billion aid for Israel, gives no support to Ukraine

Antonio Tajani

Jaishankar discusses deepening of strategic partnership with Italian Deputy PM Antonio Tajani