International News from Monday, December 16th, 2024

Istanbul-born founder and owner of fashion empire Mango Isak Andic died on Saturday in a mountain accident, aged 71.

Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, medics said, and the Israeli military said its air and ground forces in the north of the enclave killed dozens of militants and captured others. 

Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a senior local French official said on Sunday.

Israel said on Sunday it would close its Dublin embassy due to the Irish government's "extreme anti-Israel policies" including the recognition of a Palestinian state and support for international legal action against its war in Gaza. 

Seven tourists, including four Australians, were hospitalised in a suspected case of alcohol poisoning at a resort in Fiji, the Australian and Fijian governments said on Monday.