#BREAKING Hamas confirms several top commanders killed in Israeli strikes
#UPDATE Islamist group Hamas confirmed on Wednesday that several of its top commanders had been killed in Israeli strikes, including its military chief in Gaza City, Bassem Issa
#UPDATE Islamist group Hamas said several of its top commanders were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, including its military chief in Gaza City, Bassem Issa u.afp.com/UssN
#BREAKING Israelis, Palestinians must immediately halt violence "to prevent a broader conflict" impacting civilian populations: EU foreign policy chief Borrell
#BREAKING Secretary of State Blinken says senior US envoy to travel to meet Israeli, Palestinian leaders and seek de-escalation
#BREAKING US Sec. of State Blinken says Israel has 'extra burden' to avoid civilian deaths
#BREAKING Israel vows more attacks to bring 'total, long-term quiet' before any truce
#BREAKING Israeli president denounces 'pogrom' in Jewish-Arab city
VIDEO: Intense fighting between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army continued overnight, after Israeli Prime Minister warned Hamas that they will pay a "heavy price" and the head of Hamas says the Islamists are "ready" if Israel escalates violence
#BREAKING WHO could have sounded pandemic alarm sooner: probe
#UPDATE The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented had the warning signs been heeded, the global panel investigating the world's coronavirus response concluded Wednesday
#UPDATE The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday, but a "toxic cocktail" of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded u.afp.com/UsAT
#BREAKING India's Covid death toll passes 250,000: official data
#UPDATE India's Covid death toll pasts 250,000, official data shows as the pandemic rages in the country of 1.3 billion people.
Health ministry says 4,205 died in the past 24 hours. With reported cases now over 23 million, many experts suspect the real numbers are much higher
India's coronavirus death toll passes 250,000 as the World Health Organization warns the variant fuelling the surge has been found in dozens of countries across the globe
Meet China's elderly influencers cashing in on the internet.
Exquisitely garbed in a traditional cheongsam, 76-year-old Sang Xiuzhu is one of an unlikely vanguard of elderly influencers storming social media with videos of glamour in the golden years
Decades of a one-child policy has built in a demographic challenge for China, with a low birth rate and the world's largest population of elderly to provide for.
By 2050, the government predicts retirees will constitute a third of China's population
#BREAKING Gaza rocket fire kills two women in south Israel: emergency services
#UPDATE Rockets fired from Gaza killed two women in the southern Israeli city of #Ashkelon on Tuesday, the Magen David Adom emergency service told AFP, after Palestinians militants unleashed a massive barrage
#BREAKING Israel PM Netanyahu vows to 'step up' attacks on Hamas