How Women's Boat to Gaza Participants Witnessed the Darkness Israel Imposes on Palestinians and other top stories.

• How Women's Boat to Gaza Participants Witnessed the Darkness Israel Imposes on Palestinians

  

  Photo Credit: Gigi Ibrahim / Flickr Creative Commons Five hours after our Women's Boat to Gaza, the Zaytouna-Oliva, was stopped in international waters by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on its 1,000 mile journey from Messina, Italy, the coast of Gaza came into view. The Gaza shoreline was starkly visible...for its darkness. The contrast of the bright lights of the Israeli coast from the border city of Ashkelon north to Tel Aviv where the brilliant lights continued out of sight up the ..

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• 5 things to know about the new UN secretary general

  

  U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres visits a Somali refugee camp in Kenya in July 2011. Guterres is poised to become the new U.N. secretary general. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press) It’s official — effective Jan. 1, António Guterres will take on the “world’s most impossible job.” In a straw poll held Oct. 5, the United Nations Security Council voted 13 to 0 with two abstentions to give the former Portuguese prime minister and U.N. high commissioner for refugees the job o..

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• Death toll rises as Myanmar battles border attackers

  

  Yangon: Myanmar's security forces have killed at least 26 people in response to attacks on police that have sparked a dramatic escalation in violence in a Muslim-majority region along its border with Bangladesh, according to reports in state media.Armed men believed to be from the long-oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority launched a coordinated assault on three border police posts in the early hours of Sunday, killing nine police, injuring five and making off with dozens of weapons and more than ..

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• IS drone kills two Kurdish fighters

  

  A booby-trapped drone launched by Islamic State (IS) militants killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers earlier this month north of the IS-controlled city of Mosul, Kurdish and French officials have revealed.The drone blew up when Peshmerga fighters tried to lift it after it crashed to the ground, Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of the autonomous Kurdish region's defence ministry, told Reuters."It seems it was booby-trapped."The French newspaper Le Monde reported ..

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• 911 operator Crenshanda hangs up on thousands cause 'ain't nobody got time for this'

  

  Crenshanda Williams, 43, has been charged by police for allegedly hanging up on people ringing US’ emergency 911 help line, local media has reported. Ms Williams, who was charged with interference with an emergency phone call, had been employed as a telephone operator with the Houston Emergency Center in Texas, the US, since July 2014. According to court documents, supervisors found that Ms Williams had disconnected thousands of calls between October 2015 and March 2016 including calls reportin..

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• Bill Shorten ally Kimberley Kitching wins plum Senate spot

  

  Bill Shorten has sparked a new Labor factional brawl in his home state of Victoria after backing controversial lawyer and close friend Kimberley Kitching to replace Stephen Conroy in his party's plum top Senate spot.Ms Kitching secured the party's backing for the seat on Thursday night with the active support of Shorten's union base, and others, after a frenzy of factional bargaining and lobbying through the day. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Senator's bomb..

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