Latest news today (November 6): Presenting FE’s Breaking News today. We will keep you updated on all major news, views and much more throughout the day.
UN agency leaders saying “enough is enough” demanded a humanitarian ceasefire on Monday nearly a month into Gaza’s war, as health authorities in the enclave said the death toll from Israeli strikes now exceeded 10,000. Israel has rebuffed mounting international pressure for a ceasefire, saying hostages taken by Hamas militants during their rampage in southern Israel on Oct. 7 should be released first. (Reuters)
Al Jazeera TV and Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa radio said on Monday that Israeli forces had targeted a solar panel system at a building in the al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City. (Reuters)
Gunmen opened fire on people as they slept in a town in western Cameroon in the early hours of Monday, leaving at least 20 dead, a local government official said. Residents said they suspected the attack was meant to disrupt celebrations marking the 41st anniversary of Paul Biya becoming Cameroon’s president that were due to take place in Mamfe and other centres on Monday. (Reuters)
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Nepal on Monday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, three days after 153 people were killed in the country’s worst quake since 2015. Monday’s earthquake had its epicenter in Ramidanda in Jajarkot district, the same place as Friday’s quake, but there were no reports of any injuries or damage so far, the country’s National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre said. (Read More)
The Aam Aadmi Party government has announced that the odd-even vehicle scheme will return to Delhi from November 13. (Read More)
A 57-year-old man died last night in Idukki’s Santhanpara after heavy rainfall in the area caused a landslide and widespread damage to crops and properties, says Santhanpara Police. (ANI)
Sri Lanka’s sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe on Monday sacked the national cricket board, days after a humiliating defeat by India at the World Cup, latest media reports say. Arjuna Ranatunga has been appointed as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board.
Information Commissioner Heeralal Samariya was on Monday sworn in as the chief of the Central Information Commission (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu. The top post of the transparency panel was lying vacant after Y K Sinha’s term ended on October 3. (PTI)
Former Speaker of Puducherry Assembly P Kannan passed away at a private hospital here after prolonged illness. He was 74 and is survived by wife, a son and daughter, family sources said. In a release, the hospital where he was treated said, Kannan was suffering from viral pneumonia. It was also stated that he was suffering from chronic lung disease for more than half a decade. (PTI)
Russia and Ukraine gave clashing accounts over the weekend about what is going on along the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, with Moscow saying it has stopped Kyiv’s counter-offensive and Ukraine’s army saying it keeps pressing on. (Reuters)
Delhi’s air quality remains in deep red today. Amid growing concerns, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called for an high-level meeting today. (Read More)
Telangana’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the widening of key highway stretches into 4-lane roads, including the Armoor-Jagtial-Mancherial stretch of NH-63 and the Jagtial-Karimnagar stretch of NH-563. This will reduce travel time by 1 hour 30 minutes and 45 minutes respectively, and improve connectivity to economic, social, and logistic hubs.
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