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CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide were shot dead today in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, the Israeli foreign ministry said.

KABUL, (Reuters) – More than 2,000 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan and more than 9,000 injured, the Taliban administration said today, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – As Israel reeled from a deadly attack by Hamas militants who broke through barriers around Gaza and roamed at will, killing scores of civilians in Israeli towns, defence chiefs faced growing questions over how the disaster could have happened.

JERUSALEM/GAZA/SDEROT  (Reuters) – Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns yesterday, killing at least 250 Israelis and escaping with dozens of hostages in by far the deadliest day of violence in Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago.

ANTANANARIVO,  (Reuters) – Former Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana said he had sustained a leg injury today when police and soldiers fired teargas to disperse a gathering of his supporters and those of other candidates challenging the incumbent president.

JERUSALEM/GAZA/SDEROT  (Reuters) – Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns today, killing more than 200 people and escaping with hostages in by far the deadliest day of violence in Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said today he did not “recognise LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of family in the country.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said today Washington did not seek to decouple from China, but wanted reciprocal and fair treatment for U.S.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters, prompting the Islamic Republic’s condemnation.

 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil XOM.N is in advanced talks to acquire Pioneer Natural Resources PXD.N

OSLO, (Reuters) – Iran’s imprisoned women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday rejected U.S. plans to build new sections of wall at the U.S.-Mexico

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – At least 100 people were killed yesterday in an attack on a military academy in Syria, a war monitor and an official said, with weaponised drones bombing the site minutes after Syria’s defence minister left a graduation ceremony there.

WASHINGTON/ANKARA, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party hailed a “seismic” victory in an election for a UK parliamentary seat in Scotland, beating the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) in a sign of its recovery in the country before a national election expected next year.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Russian attack killed at least 49 people, including a six-year-old boy, as they gathered in a cafe for a memorial service in a village in northeastern Ukraine today, the country’s interior minister said.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The race to replace ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took shape yesterday as Steve Scalise, the chamber’s No.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s external intelligence service is a feared foe in its neighborhood: Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal have all accused it of political meddling and involvement with outlawed groups that have perpetrated acts of violence.