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On 9 October 2023, in my seventh month of pregnancy, I was displaced from my home in Gaza’s Tuffah neighbourhood to my father’s house in Shujaiya. At the time, I was suffering from biliary colic, a condition causing severe abdominal pain. As the pain persisted for several days, I travelled with my husband and my parents to the local hospital. The facility was overcrowded with injured patients and martyrs. The smell of death filled the air, increasing my sense of horror. A doctor who examined my foetus said the pain was triggered by my body’s reaction to fear and stress,…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump.Dan Kitwoodnicholas Kamm | Afp | Getty ImagesTop Chinese and U.S. economic officials on Sunday hashed out the framework of a trade deal for U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to decide on later this week that would pause steeper American tariffs and Chinese rare earths export controls, U.S. officials said.U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur had eliminated the threat of Trump’s 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1. Bessent also said he expects China to delay…
Oct 26, 2025, 07:11 AM ETVideo Assistant Referee causes controversy every week in the Premier League, but how are decisions made and are they correct?This season, we take a look at the major incidents, to examine and explain the process both in terms of VAR protocol and the Laws of the Game. Andy Davies is a former Select Group referee, with over 12 seasons on the elite list, working across the Premier League and Championship. With extensive experience at the elite level, he has operated within the VAR space on Premier League and offers a unique insight into the processes,…
Oct 26, 2025, 06:57 AM ETThe Premier League is one of the most exciting competitions in the world, but this season things have been taken to a whole new level.Indeed, according to Opta data, there have been 32 goals scored after the 90th minute so far this season. From a total of 229. That’s 13.9%!Of course, there was one Saturday in September when EIGHT went in on the same day, which was unsurprisingly a Premier League record, but when compared to last season, when there were 96 stoppage-time goals from a total of 1,115 (8.6%), it’s a big difference.So here’s…
KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) announced on Sunday the discovery of a Bronze Age temple dating back nearly 4,000 years to the Dilmun Civilization on Failaka Island, Kuwait, during the 2025 archaeological excavation season.The discovery was made in collaboration with a joint Kuwaiti-Danish archaeological team from Moesgaard Museum.Acting Assistant Secretary-General for the Antiquities and Museums Sector at NCCAL, Mohammad bin Redha, told KUNA that the team successfully uncovered the complete layout of a Bronze Age temple belonging to the Dilmun Civilization, located beneath another temple that has been announced during the previous excavation season.He explained…
Vice-captain Robertson, who was introduced from the bench in the second half, reflected candidly on Liverpool’s recent poor form and how it can be turned around.”We’ve got to work harder, it’s as simple as that,” he told Liverpoolfc.com. “In training and games; recovering better. All of us have to.”When you’re at this football club, people demand results. The fans travel up and down, I guarantee quite a lot of them in the away end were in Frankfurt as well. They spend a lot of money to come and support us.”In a difficult moment, the only way to get out of…
For most of President Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans have bent to his will. But in two Midwestern states, Trump’s plan to maintain control of the U.S. House in next year’s election by having Republicans redraw congressional districts has hit a roadblock.Despite weeks of campaigning by the White House, Republicans in Indiana and Kansas say their party doesn’t have enough votes to pass new, more GOP-friendly maps. It’s made the two states outliers in the rush to redistrict — places where Republican-majority legislatures are unwilling or unable to heed Trump’s call and help preserve the party’s control on Capitol Hill.Lawmakers…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet shake hands during the signing of a Cambodia-Thailand peace deal at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on October 26, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe United States signed a flurry of deals on trade and critical minerals with four Southeast Asian partners on Sunday, looking to address trade imbalances and diversify supply chains amid tighter export curbs on rare earths by China.U.S. President Donald Trump, who is in Kuala Lumpur to attend a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, signed reciprocal…
CAIRO (AP) — Hamas expanded its search for the bodies of hostages in new areas in the Gaza Strip Sunday, the Palestinian group said, a day after Egypt deployed a team of experts and heavy equipment to help retrieve the bodies.Under the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire, reached on Oct. 10, Hamas is expected to return all of the remains Israeli hostages as soon as possible. Israel agreed to give back 15 bodies of Palestinians for every body of a hostage. Thus far, Israel has sent back the bodies of 195 Palestinians. Hamas has since returned 18 bodies of hostages, but in…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch voters in Wednesday’s general election are spoiled for choice.The country’s electoral commission has registered no fewer than 27 parties and 1,166 candidates vying for the 150 seats up for grabs in the House of Representatives.That means a big ballot paper because it bears the names of all the parties and the candidates on each party’s list. The results is ruffled papers as voters wrangle big ballots and use a small red pencil to mark their choice, before folding up the paper and squeezing it through a slot in the ballot box. When polling booths…