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LONDON: Around 40 Palestinians of Spanish nationality left Gaza on Monday through the Rafah border crossing, the Spanish Foreign Ministry announced. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said that half of the group were minors. Meanwhile, 180 people of dual Spanish-Palestinian nationality remain in Gaza. Albares added that the citizens, along with their spouses and family members, will be evacuated from Gaza in groups of 30 to 40 people in the coming days and transported to Spain via Egypt.  

Delegates mulling two options: a wide-ranging strategy that would target plastics production or a limited approach.

The Kremlin says the West should take note that President Zelenskyy was left in the dark about the operation.

The country heads to the polls on February 14 to vote for the next president.

New Delhi, as usual, takes top spot while Mumbai comes sixth with an AQI of 157, followed by Kolkata with an AQI of 154.

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: A premature baby and two patients have died in Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday, as the facility suffered fuel shortages amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.Youssef Abu Rish, deputy health minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, told said the new deaths brought the toll to six premature babies and nine patients since electric shortages began affecting the hospital a number of days ago.

BEIRUT: Lebanon has seized more than half a ton of drugs destined for Kuwait, authorities said Sunday, as Beirut seeks to combat narcotics trafficking, particularly to Gulf countries. Authorities “seized around 800 kilogrammes (1,760 pounds) of drugs” bound for Kuwait via the Netherlands, the office of Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said in a statement carried by Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA). The drugs were “professionally” concealed in wooden figures inside a bulletproof box, the statement said, without specifying the type of narcotics seized.