Hundreds demonstrate in Karachi, Pakistan in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza
Hundreds gathered and showed solidarity with the people of Gaza at a demonstration in Pakistan on Thursday. (AP video/Muhammad Farooq)
Hundreds gathered and showed solidarity with the people of Gaza at a demonstration in Pakistan on Thursday. (AP video/Muhammad Farooq)
More than 100 people attacked the Lighthouse Theatre in Camberwell, police said
Ukraine appears to have conducted its largest-ever drone strike against Russia, causing a massive fire to break out at an oil refinery hundreds of miles behind the front line.
Demonstrators arrived outside Driscoll House in New Kent Road, Southwark
The US is studying the Ukraine war for clues on conflicts of the future.
Britain will pay the price for helping to defend Israel from Iranian missiles and suicide drones, a top general from the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned.
At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A Palestinian aroused suspicions and an Israeli soldier killed him. Most Palestinians saw him as an eccentric outcast, while many Israelis treated him as an unwelcome convert to a religion that doesn’t proselytize.
The Arab League on Thursday called for a UN peacekeeping force in the Palestinian territories and an international peace conference at a summit dominated by the war between Israel and Hamas. - 'Open wound' - The league also separately, called for an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza and an end to forced displacement in the Palestinian territory.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released aerial footage on Thursday, May 16, showing airstrikes on buildings in southern Lebanese towns that it says were a response to multiple Hezbollah rocket launches toward the Golan Heights earlier that day.The first two videos here show strikes on buildings in Ayta ash Shab, which lies close to the Israeli village of Shtula, and a third clip shows a strike on a building in Houla, west of the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona.The IDF said the buildings were being used by Hezbollah militants, but Storyful could not independently verify those details.The Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar television channel reported Israeli raids in both towns, but provided no further details.The IDF also released footage that it said showed strikes on Hezbollah positions in Meiss Ej Jabal, Kafr Kila, and Naqoura, but Storyful was unable to verify the locations of the videos. Credit: IDF via Storyful
Intense gunfire and explosions rang out in the Ukrainian frontline town of Vovchansk on Thursday, May 16, as Ukrainian armed forces engaged advancing Russian forces in street battles.This video was published by Ukrainian Military Intelligence, who said it shows soldiers from the “Stugna” group of the special forces unit Timur GUR exchanging close-range gunfire with Russian forces while moving through rubble-filled streets and buildings in the northeastern border town.Fighters can be seen carrying an injured soldier under gunfire.According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, fighting in the northeast was concentrated around Lyptsi and Vovchansk, as Russian forces rained down a total of 32 airstrikes and 181 artillery barrages across Kharkiv region. Credit: Defense Intelligence of Ukraine via Storyful
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Police reinforcements have been arriving in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia as part of a major security crackdown following days of deadly rioting. An extra 1,000 personnel have been sent to the archipelago in addition to the 1,700 already deployed, after France imposed a state of emergency to tackle the unrest, which included a curfew and a ban on TikTok. Five people, including two police officers, have been killed in the violence which erupted following protests over voting reforms being pushed through by French President Emmanuel Macron's government.
A massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea caused power outages in Sevastopol and ignited a refinery in southern Russia, according to Russian authorities. The drone strikes on Friday morning marked Kyiv’s effort to retaliate amid Moscow’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, increasing pressure on the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces who are awaiting delayed deliveries of crucial weapons and ammunition from Western allies. Ukraine has not commented on the attack or claimed responsibility for it.
Israel's tanks pushed into the heart of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Thursday, facing anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs from militants concentrated there, while in the south, its forces pounded Rafah without advancing, Palestinian residents and militants said. The slow progress of Israel's offensive, more than seven months after it was prompted by Hamas' deadly cross-border raid, highlighted the difficulty of achieving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aim of eradicating the militant group. Armed wings of Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad have been able to fight up and down the Gaza Strip, using heavily fortified tunnels to stage attacks in both the north - the focus of Israel's initial invasion - and new battlegrounds like Rafah.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to meet with Palestinian and Arab American leaders Friday evening, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
But as UK aid is shipped in from Cyprus, Rishi Sunak urges Israel to open more land routes for Palestinians ‘in desperate need of help’
A ceremony marking is taking place in Dublin to mark the 50th anniversary of the attacks on May 17 1974.
Israel lashed out Friday at South Africa's case before the UN's top court, describing it as "totally divorced" from reality, as Pretoria urges judges to order a ceasefire in Gaza.A top lawyer for Israel painted the South Africa case as a "mockery" of the UN Genocide Convention it is accused of breaching.
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