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United States President Donald Trump is expected to offer a plan and discuss his vision for ending Israel’s war on Gaza and the future of the mostly destroyed Palestinian enclave to Arab and Muslim leaders on Tuesday.Trump will hold a meeting with leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Egy...
Lebanon is pushing to get more support from the United States after another deadly Israeli drone attack on southern Lebanon, which this time killed five people, including three children, the latest in a series of near-daily violations by Israel of the US-brokered November 2024 ceasefire.President Jo...
The leaders of six countries, including France, have moved to recognise Palestinian statehood at a high-level summit ahead of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York.Alongside France, which co-convened the meeting with Saudi Arabia on Monday in New York, Andorra, Belgiu...
Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.The warning from the Supreme National Security Council came on Saturday,...
The Taliban has rejected United States President Donald Trump’s demand that it hand over the Bagram airbase that Washington ran during its 20-year war in Afghanistan, dismissing Trump’s threat that “bad things” will happen if this does not come to pass.The Taliban said on Sun...
Two separate boat accidents in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week have left at least 193 people dead and dozens more missing, authorities and state media said Friday.The tragedies occurred on Wednesday and Thursday, about 150 kilometers apart in Equateur province.On Thursd...
At least 60 people have been killed while attending a funeral in the conflict-ridden eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in an ISIL (ISIS)-affiliated group attack carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), officials said.“The ADF attack caused around 60 deaths...
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has replaced five ministers in a lightning cabinet reshuffle after deadly protests rocked the Southeast Asian nation of 285 million people in recent weeks.The cabinet shake-up on Monday follows rising public dissatisfaction with Prabowo’s administra...
Thailand’s Supreme Court has ruled that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve one year in prison, in a watershed case for the kingdom.The court issued its ruling on Tuesday in a review of whether Thaksin’s stay in the private room of a police hospital from 2023 to early 202...
Syria has “strongly condemned” Israeli attacks on several sites in and around Homs city in the west of the country and around the coastal city of Latakia.The Israeli air strikes in the early hours of Tuesday represent “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Repub...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said at least 20 civilians were killed when a Russian glide bomb struck an eastern Ukrainian village, in the latest barrage from Moscow undermining any diplomatic momentum to end the war, now in its fourth year.Zelenskyy said on Tuesday the attack st...
Australia, Canada and the Philippines have conducted joint exercises off a disputed shoal in the South China Sea claimed by Beijing, deploying three warships and military aircraft in air defence exercises.The Philippine military said on Thursday that the joint naval drills east of the Scarborough Sh...
Half of voters in the United States believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a poll has found.The share of US voters who believe a genocide is taking place includes 77 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.A large...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be among world leaders attending an upcoming military parade in China to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.Kim and Putin will participate in the “Victory Day” parade in Beijing next week, China’s Mi...
The director of the United States’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned.Susan Monarez is not “aligned with” President Donald Trump’s agenda and refused to resign, so the White House termina...
Islamabad, Pakistan: India on August 20 announced that it had successfully test-fired Agni-V, its intermediate-range ballistic missile, from a test range in Odisha on its eastern Bay of Bengal coast.The Agni-V, meaning “fire” in Sanskrit, is 17.5 metres long, weighs 50,000kg, and ca...
Denmark has summoned the United States charge d’affaires for talks over Danish intelligence reports that US citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.The diplomat was summoned on Wednesday after Denmark’s main...
At least 30 people have been killed and many more injured after heavy rains triggered a massive landslide in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials and local media report.Search and rescue operations were under way on Wednesday in response to the landslide, which occurred the previous afternoon near...
Five journalists, including Al Jazeera photographer Mohammad Salama, are among 20 people killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health.The ministry said on Monday that the victims were killed on the fourth floor of the hos...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has killed at least 35 armed fighters in air strikes near the country’s border with Cameroon, following intelligence that an attack on ground troops was being planned.The strikes were launched on Saturday on four targets in the Kumshe area in Borno State, n...
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