International from Tuesday, November 12th, 2024

Mauritius' opposition Alliance du Changement (ADC) coalition led by veteran politician Navin Ramgoolam won 62.6% of votes in the country's general election, securing a near clean sweep of seats in parliament.

A hit-and-run attack at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai killed 35 people and severely injured 43, local police said on Tuesday.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pledged on Monday to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in 2025, calling Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States “an important opportunity”.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a keynote speech at the COP29 climate summit to respond to Western critics of his country's oil and gas industry, saying it had been the victim of a "well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail".

Israel has failed to meet criteria set by the United States to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip within 30 days, a group of international aid agencies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

The Philippines issued fresh evacuations on Tuesday ahead of Tropical Storm Usagi, the fifth major storm set to hit the country in a month. 

At least 14 people were killed and 15 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the northern Lebanese town of Ain Yaaqoub, Akkar, on Monday, according to the town's mayor.

The United Nations Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that demands Sudan's warring parties cease hostilities and calls on them to allow safe, rapid and unhindered deliveries of aid across front lines and borders. 

An Israeli airstrike killed seven people late Monday at a café near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Palestinian medics said, bringing the death toll from Israeli strikes since Sunday night to at least 37.

Donald Trump selected US Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, the New York Times reported on Monday, putting the Florida-born politician on track to be the first Latino to serve as America's top diplomat once the Republican president-elect takes office in January.

Dutch police on Monday said they had arrested five more people for their suspected involvement in attacks on Israeli football supporters late last week, which were sparked after they chanted anti-Arab slogans and caused public disturbances. 

Leaders of Arab and Islamic countries gathered in Riyadh on Monday for a high-stakes summit, where they issued a united call for Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territories to the pre-1967 borders.