JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron proposed on Tuesday that an international coalition fighting against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria be widened to include the fight against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.

Macron gave no detail on how the U.S.-led coalition of dozens of countries, of which Israel is not a member, could be involved.

Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Macron stressed that France and Israel shared terrorism as their "common enemy".

MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/: Russia has its own hypersonic missiles, so it did not steal any secrets of "super-duper" weapons from the United States, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told the media.

Former US President Donald Trump earlier claimed that Moscow had allegedly obtained secret information about what he described as the US "super-duper" missile during the Barack Obama presidency.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of their colleagues underground for a second day at a gold mine in South Africa over a union dispute, police and mine officials said Tuesday. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the mine said.

DHAKA, Oct 24 (NNN-BSS) – At least 15 people were killed after two trains collided, in Bangladesh’s Kishoreganj district, some 117 km north-east of Dhaka, yesterday, the district’s Additional Superintendent of Police, Md Mostak Sarker, said.

The official said, a container train, heading towards seaport city Chattogram, collided with Dhaka-bound Egarosindhur Express, at around 3:30 p.m. local time yesterday.

PRETORIA, Oct 24 (NNN-GNA) — South Africa’s third biggest political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has held a protest outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, Pretoria.

Party leader, Julius Malema once again called for the closure of the embassy after saying Israel’s government had “no respect for humanity”.

Malema also urged retailers in the country to remove Israeli-produced goods from their shelves by the end of October.

HELSINKI, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Damage to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline earlier this month is believed to have been caused by a ship dragging a large anchor along the seabed, but it was too early to tell if this was an accident or a deliberate act, Finnish police said on Tuesday.

Investigators said they had now retrieved a lost anchor from the seabed location where the pipeline ruptured on Oct. 8, and were investigating whether it belonged to a Chinese container vessel.

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has turned up the heat on General Motors as 5,000 workers walked off their jobs Tuesday at a highly profitable SUV factory in Arlington, Texas.

The move comes just a day after the union went on strike at a Stellantis pickup truck factory in Sterling Heights, Michigan, north of Detroit.

The Texas strike brings the total of UAW members that have walked off their jobs to 46,000 in a series of strikes that is entering its sixth week.

MANILA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday said it has approved a 175-million-U.S. dollar loan to improve connectivity and climate resilience of roads in India's Madhya Pradesh state.

The Manila-based bank said the project will upgrade about 500 km of state highways and major district roads to a standard two-lane feature.

ANKARA, October 24. /TASS/: The conflict in the Middle East is escalating, causing more and more casualties among civilians in the Gaza Strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on Tuesday that recent Ukrainian attacks have denied the Russian fleet safe bases and secure maritime corridors in the western part of the Black Sea, as Kyiv’s troops look to squeeze the Kremlin’s occupying forces out of the Crimean Peninsula.

Crimea provides rear support for Moscow’s battlefield efforts further west and has been a frequent target for Ukrainian forces during the war since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved to dampen media pressure over the government's conduct of the war against the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, issuing a statement insisting he was in full accord with his defence and army chiefs.

Netanyahu, Israel's longest serving prime minister, has seen his already falling approval ratings plunge following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which killed some 1,400 people in the deadliest day for Israel in its 75-year history.

TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday called for greater solidarity among Muslim countries to support Gaza, highlighting the international organizations' responsibility in this regard.

Raisi made the remarks in separate meetings with the new ambassadors of Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Slovenia in the Iranian capital Tehran to receive their credentials, according to statements published on the website of the Iranian president's office.