December 27, 2024

Israel kills 50 Palestinians in Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital Israel has killed nearly 50 Palestinians in an overnight air strike on a building opposite the headquarters of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern besieged Gaza, including three medical staff and workers. Their bodies were stuck under the rubble of a building opposite Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia Project area after Israeli warplanes bombed it. Medical staff and workers were in the targeted building where they stayed with their families. Three Palestinian babies freeze to death in Gaza The chief paediatric doctor at a southern Gaza hospital has said that three babies had died of "severe temperature drop" this week, as the war-ravaged Palestinian territory grapples with winter. In the most recent case, in Khan Younis city a three-week-old girl was brought to the emergency room with a severe temperature drop, which led to her death. The head of the hospital's paediatric services also said that a three-day-old baby and another baby, less than a month old, both died after a severe temperature drop. UN calls for peaceful resolution to ongoing violence in Mozambique UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern about the unrest in Mozambique, urging a peaceful resolution to the ongoing crisis. He urged all political leaders and relevant national stakeholders to defuse tensions, including through meaningful dialogue and legal redress, refrain from the use of violence, and redouble efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the ongoing crisis in a constructive manner, which is essential to the collective future of Mozambicans. Russian missile brought down Azerbaijan Airlines plane: officials Senior Azerbaijani officials have confirmed the validity of an earlier media report suggesting that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near the Kazakh city of Aktau was caused by a Russian missile system. A claim dismissed by Russia. This came after Azerbaijani media, citing government sources, reported that the preliminary results of the investigation into the incident determined that the plane was attacked by a Pantsir missile system as it approached the city of Grozny. According to the report, the aircraft’s communication system was completely paralysed due to the use of Russian electronic warfare systems, which resulted in the plane disappearing from radars while in Russian airspace. Top Canadian officials to meet with Trump team on tariffs Key members of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet have travelled to Florida for talks with representatives of US President-elect Donald Trump as Ottawa works to avert a potentially devastating trade war. Newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic Leblanc and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly flew to Palm Beach, Florida to meet with officials from the incoming Trump administration. The meetings set for Friday will focus on Canada's efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking and irregular migration.