Three Spanish tourists and three Afghan citizens have been killed by gunmen in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province, the Taliban interior ministry says, in an attack that also injured an Australian. The Australian was among eight foreigners and Afghans injured in the deadly attack when gunmen opened fire. Afghan media said the foreigners were from Australia, … Read more
Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the troubled Pacific island territory, after riots that killed four people. “The kids are definitely hungry because we don’t really have much option of what we can feed them,” Joanne Elias said on Saturday from a resort in the … Read more
The US military has finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. The final, overnight construction on Thursday sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after US … Read more
Israeli tanks have pushed deeper into Rafah, reaching some residential areas of the southern Gazan border city where more than one million people had sought shelter, and its forces pounded the enclave’s north in some of the fiercest attacks in months. Israel’s international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into … Read more
The sentencing of the man who helped expose allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan has been met with outrage, with David McBride to spend at least two years and three months behind bars. McBride, 60, pleaded guilty to leaking classified defence information to journalists. Justice David Mossop sentenced him to an aggregated five years … Read more
Israeli forces have pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge to recapture an area where they had claimed to have defeated Hamas months ago, while at the opposite end of the enclave, tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah. With some of the most intense fighting for weeks now taking place … Read more
Some 110,000 people have left Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli army started advancing on the city, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says. “UNRWA estimates around 110,000 people have now fled Rafah looking for safety,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees … Read more
Israeli forces have massed tanks and opened fire close to built-up areas of Rafah after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city. As ceasefire talks continued in Cairo, Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said their fighters struck Israeli … Read more
The Israeli military has seized control of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt and its tanks have pushed into the southern Gazan town of Rafah after a night of air strikes on the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli offensive took place as mediators struggled to secure a ceasefire agreement between Israel and … Read more
Israel has called on civilians to evacuate parts of Rafah in what appears to be preparation for a long-threatened assault on Hamas holdouts in the southern Gaza Strip city where more than a million war-displaced Palestinians have been sheltering. Instructed by Arabic text messages, telephone calls, and flyers to move to what the Israeli military … Read more
