GAZA -- Israeli warplanes bombed a school in northern Gaza City, leading to dozens of deaths and injuries, the Hamas-run health ministry said Friday.
The ministry said that Israel bombed the Osama Bin Zaid School in the Al-Saftawi neighborhood, north of Gaza City, which houses displaced Palestinians. (Gaza-Hamas-Israeli attack)
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ANKARA -- The Turkish Health Ministry reiterated its readiness on Friday to transfer critically ill patients from the besieged Gaza Strip to Türkiye for treatment.
"We express once again that we are ready to transfer our Gazan brothers and sisters who are in critical condition to our country so that they can access treatment," Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. (EU-Slovenia-Gaza)
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LOS ANGELES -- NASA and SpaceX are targeting next Thursday, Nov. 9, for launch of the company's 29th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency said on Friday.
The launch is scheduled at 8:28 p.m. Eastern Time next Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA-SpaceX-ISS)
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ROME -- Global sugar prices settled down in October, following sharp increases in previous months, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday.
Sugar has been the most volatile food commodity in recent weeks, amid concerns over supplies sparked by extreme weather in sugar-producing countries, high energy prices, and the impacts of the El Nino weather phenomenon. (Italy-FAO-prices) ■
