GAZA CITY Nov 30 (AFP) - The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza on Saturday said more than 70,000 people have been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted more than two years ago.

BEIJING Nov 30 (AFP) - China's factory activity shrank for an eighth straight month in November, official data showed Sunday, suggesting the world's second-largest economy remains subdued despite a trade truce with the United States.

ROME Nov 30 (AFP) - The spectrum of Italy's political class has condemned a group of protestors who Friday vandalised the main office of Turin-based newspaper La Stampa.

VIENNA Nov 30 (AFP) - Ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied nations (OPEC+) are unlikely to make changes to their oil output strategy when they discuss production at an online ministerial meeting on Sunday.

TAIPEI Nov 30 (AFP) - Taiwan's government has proposed $40 billion in extra defence spending over several years, with the focus on developing a multi-layered air defence system dubbed "T-Dome".

GUANGZHOUR Nov 30 (AFP) -  A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialling the mass production of flying cars.