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Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 194th day — has killed at least 33,899 people and wounded over 76,664 as UNSC committee fails to agree on Palestine's bid for full membership.

The US is “increasingly concerned” by violence perpetrated against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank that has led to at least two deaths following the murder of a 14 year-old Israeli boy, the US State Department said Monday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The Saudi-UAE cold war with Iran has been a hot war for most of the Middle East. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen bare the brutal scars of outside powers competing for influence.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza — now in its 176th day — has killed at least 32,705 Palestinians and wounded 75,190 as Biden reportedly approves transfer of new bombs, warplanes to Israel.

Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 175th day — has killed at least 32,552 people and wounded 74,980 as World Court orders Israel to stop Gaza starvation crisis.

Israeli air strikes on Syria’s northern province of Aleppo have killed more than 40 people, most of them soldiers, according to news agencies and a war monitor.

It has now been 84 years since the Lahore Resolution and 77 years since the birth of Pakistan. The more we move on, the greater the contrast in some principal conditions for the vast majority of citizens: for example, the average life expectancy in the subcontinent in 1940 was only about 28 to 30 years; today, it is 68 years. Literacy at the time was barely 25 per cent; it is now over 67pc.

Battered by Turkish air strikes and stalked by fears of a US military withdrawal, Washington's Kurdish-led allies in northeast Syria are increasingly concerned they will be ditched as "collateral damage" of the war in Gaza. 

It is the latest setback for former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. On Monday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) declared that the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) could not claim allocated reserved seats in the national and provincial assemblies.

The Iranian ambassador to the UN stressed the need for the establishment of a broad-based Afghan government that would safeguard the rights of all ethnic groups and combat terrorism.