Author: News Desk

Much of northwestern Europe went on high alert Wednesday as a storm dubbed Ciaran threatened to bring gale force winds and extreme rainfall to the region. Three French departments — Finistere, Cotes-d’Armor and Manche — will be placed on red storm alert, the highest level, at midnight (2300 GMT), national weather agency Meteo-France said. Meanwhile thirty other departments including Paris and its surrounding regions are placed on orange alert.

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French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday vowed a “merciless fight” against surging anti-Semitism after residents of the French capital discovered anti-Jewish graffiti on buildings in several districts. Paris prosecutors have launched a probe into the incident as a possible hate crime. “The Israel-Hamas conflict is clearly being imported into France,” representative council of French Jewish institutions Robert Ejnes said.

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Britons to leave Gaza in stages, says UK Foreign Office Brits will leave Gaza “in stages over the coming days,” the UK Foreign Office has said. The Rafah border crossing with Egypt is being opened for “controlled and time-limited periods” and to allow the seriously wounded to leave. The first group of foreign nationals were permitted to cross on Wednesday. Injured Palestinians were also allowed to cross into the border, where a field hospital has been set up for the injured Palestinians. It’s believed that there are roughly 200 British nationals in Gaza. Civilians in Gaza have been trapped in…

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