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UK health crisis: Welsh junior doctors to go on strike amid ‘grueling conditions’
Thousands of junior doctors in Wales will go on strike in January after being offered a below-inflation pay offer of 5 percent.
Thousands of junior doctors in Wales will go on strike in January after being offered a below-inflation pay offer of 5 percent.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani says Yemen is an independent country and its operations against Israel come in response to Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

At least 40 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip in fresh Israeli air raids on residential buildings across the besieged territory.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges the United States to lift or waive its sanctions against Iran’s oil sector to resume the US-abandoned Iran nuclear deal.

At least 118 people were killed when an earthquake collapsed buildings in northwest China.

Israeli forces bury Palestinians alive using bulldozers in the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only operational healthcare facility in northern Gaza.
Israel’s intensified violence in Gaza since the war began on October 7 has fostered solidarity between Black Americans and Palestinians, according to a report.

The UN Palestinian refugee agency says since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza in early October almost 1.9 million have been internally displaced.

A rights group calls for an investigation into the torture and killing of Palestinians abducted from Gaza in Israel’s “Guantanamo-like” jails.

Yemen’s defense minister has denounced the formation of a US-led maritime task force in the Red Sea to protect the passage of merchant vessels bound for the Israeli-occupied territories.

Nael Saleh al-Barghouti, 64, a Palestinian from the occupied Ramallah has been languishing in different Israeli jails for more than 42 years now on trumped-up charges.

Almost half the bombs used by the Israeli regime in its war on Gaza since Oct. 7 have been unguided "dumb" bombs, which have resulted in massive civilian casualties.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories, 02:00 GMT on December 19, 2023.

Israel has arrested 46 journalists since October 7, when it started its aggression against Gaza.

The 'Jews for Palestine' holds a rally in Brooklyn, calling for ceasefire in Gaza.

Iran says the United States is responsible for all crimes that the Israeli regime is committing against Palestinians in Gaza.

Heavy rains in Gaza exacerbate the suffering of displaced Palestinians in the besieged territory.

Hezbollah strikes an Israeli settlement near Lebanon's border with the occupied territories in response to an Israeli attack on a funeral procession.