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CAIRO: The leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan on Monday said the Palestinian Authority must head post-war governance in Gaza. The question of who will rule the Palestinian territory has been one of the main sticking points in efforts to prolong a ceasefire in Gaza that collapsed last month. On a visit to Cairo where he met his counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as well as Jordan’s King Abdullah II, French President Emmanuel Macron said Palestinian militant group Hamas should have no role in governing the Gaza Strip once its war with Israel is over. “Governance, law and order, and security…

GENEVA: The heads of six U.N. agencies called on Monday for an urgent renewal of the ceasefire in Gaza, warning of aid shortages and hunger since Israel resumed its all-out assault with the deadliest week for Gaza’s children of the past year. No new humanitarian supplies have entered the Palestinian enclave since Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks on March 2, as talks stalled on the next stage of a now broken truce. Israel resumed its assault on March 18. “More than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again, while, at crossing points, food, medicine, fuel and…

SANAA: Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted a military site in Israel and attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea Monday, shortly after Israel’s army said it intercepted a drone launched from the east. The “carried out a military operation targeting an Israeli military target in the occupied area of Yaffa (Tel Aviv) using a ‘Yaffa’ drone,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a video statement. The Houthis also targeted “two US destroyers with several cruise missiles and drones” in the Red Sea, he added. Earlier Monday, the Israeli military said it intercepted a drone “that approached Israeli territory…

GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence agency reported at least 12 people killed Monday in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory, where the war triggered by Hamas’s 2023 attack on Israel entered its 19th month. The latest strikes, part of renewed military operations after a two-month truce, come with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington for talks with US President Donald Trump later on Monday, where the ongoing fighting is set to be on the agenda. An air strike hit a tent used by journalists in a makeshift displacement camp in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two people, said civil…

LAGOS: Gunmen have killed at least 52 people and displaced nearly 2,000 others over several days of attacks in Nigeria’s northern Plateau state, which has a history of violence between farmers and cattle herders, the national emergency agency said. The reason for the attacks in six villages in Plateau’s Bokkos district last week was not immediately known but it is the worst outbreak of violence since December 2023, when more than 100 people were killed in the same district. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the scale of the violence became clearer at the weekend as 52 people were…

LONDON: King Charles III arrives in Italy on Monday for a four-day visit where he will become the first UK monarch to address Italy’s joint parliament, but will not meet Pope Francis due to the pontiff’s health issues. The trip comes 10 days after Charles, 76, had his own health scare, being admitted to hospital after experiencing temporary side effects from his cancer treatment. Royal sources cited by the UK media said the king was “raring to go” on the trip, during which he will also celebrate his 20th wedding anniversary with wife Camilla. Charles, who is the head of…

TEHRAN: Iran’s top diplomat has dismissed direct negotiations with the United States as pointless, his office said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump said he preferred face-to-face talks over its nuclear programme. Trump sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month calling for negotiations but warning of military action if diplomacy failed. On Thursday, the US president said he favoured “direct talks”, arguing they were “faster” and offered a better understanding than going through intermediaries. But Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said direct talks made no sense with a country “that constantly threatens to resort to…

PARIS: France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday vowed not to give up after she was found guilty of embezzlement and banned from taking part in elections, slamming her conviction as a “political decision”. The bombshell judgement, which could crush Le Pen’s dream of winning the French presidency in 2027, has stunned the country’s political establishment. “I won’t give up,” Le Pen told members of her National Rally party and supporters, who packed the Place Vauban, with the glittering golden dome of the Hotel National des Invalides, one of the French capital’s best-known landmarks, in the background. She denounced…

WASHINGTON: More than 50 nations have reached out to the White House to begin trade talks since US President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping new tariffs, top officials said on Sunday as they defended levies that wiped out nearly $6 trillion in value from US stocks last week and downplayed economic fallout. On Sunday morning talk shows, Trump’s top economic advisers sought to portray the tariffs as a savvy repositioning of the US in the global trade order. They also tried to minimize the economic fallout from last week’s tumultuous rollout, ahead of Monday’s expected bumpy opening of Asian stock…

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were killed Sunday in an Israeli strike on the country’s south, as Israel said it hit Hezbollah operatives amid a fragile truce. The toll in the “strike launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Zibqin rose to two dead”, the health ministry said in a statement, adding that the toll was final after earlier reporting one dead. The Israeli military said it carried out an air strike targeting two Hezbollah operatives in the Zibqin area, adding in a statement that they were “attempting to rebuild Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites”. A fragile…