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CAIRO/GAZA, (Reuters) – Israel stepped up its air and ground offensive in Gaza with more attacks on Hamas militants and command posts today as both sides marked the first anniversary of a war that has destroyed much of the territory and shattered the lives of its people.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year amid record heat, endangering water supplies in an era of growing demand, a U.N.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the award-giving body said today.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli air attacks battered Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight and early on Sunday in the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel sharply escalated its campaign against Iran-backed group Hezbollah last month.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing last month of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard from since strikes on Beirut late last week, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 26 people were killed and 93 others wounded when Israeli airstrikes hit a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said.

(Reuters) – Florida prepared today for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Hurricane Milton intensified in the Gulf of Mexico on its path toward the U.S.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli air attacks battered Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight and early today  in the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel sharply escalated its campaign against Iran-backed group Hezbollah last month.

MILAN, (Reuters) – Sammy Basso, who was the longest living survivor of the rare genetic disease progeria, has died at the age of 28, the Italian Progeria Association said on Sunday.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, Reuters eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometers away.

BUTLER, Pennsylvania,  (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday returned to the rural Pennsylvania site where he was nearly assassinated, rallying a large crowd in the critical battleground state one month before the Nov.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – It is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s President Lai Ching-te said yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said yesterday his Congolese counterpart had refused to sign an agreed deal to help resolve the M23 rebel conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has displaced over 1.7 million people.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel said it had targeted the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut and was assessing the damage yesterday after a series of strikes on senior figures in the group that Iran’s Supreme Leader dismissed as counterproductive.

WASHINGTON/FLINT, Michigan,  (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris met with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Flint, Michigan, yesterday, as her presidential campaign seeks to win back voters angry at U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. job gains increased by the most in six months in September and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, pointing to a resilient economy that likely does not need the Federal Reserve to deliver large interest rate cuts for the rest of this year.

ROME,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ world food price index jumped in September, data released yesterday showed, posting its biggest gain in 18 months on the back of surging sugar prices.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined yesterday to put on hold new federal air pollution rules from President Joe Biden’s administration to tighten limits on mercury and methane, acting in challenges brought by a group of states – most of them Republican-led – and industry groups.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a crippling three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the U.S.