Home to 2.2 million people, the Gaza Strip is a densely-populated enclave, 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and fenced off from Israel and Egypt at its borders. In response to Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October, Israel has begun a...
Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia and Hellen Obiri of Kenya won the 52nd New York City Marathon. On the men’s side, 32-year-old Tola broke the 12-year-old record. He finished the 42.195 km race in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds on Sunday (Nov. 05); eight seconds faster than previous...
The Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip opened on Saturday to allow aid trucks to enter Gaza for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war erupted. Israel has so far agreed to allow 20 trucks into Gaza from Egypt carrying food, water and medicine, but not fuel. It...
A West African court on Monday set November 17 as the date for its decision on the reinstatement of Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko on the electoral rolls, on which his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election depends. Lawyers for Mr. Sonko, the central figure in a two-year...
The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostage. Palestinian health officials say more than 4,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched retaliatory air strikes...
