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Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway on Tuesday said that they have imposed sanctions on two far-right Israeli government ministers for allegedly “inciting extremist violence” against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich face a...
Beijing: Eid-ul-Azha, one of the two major Islamic festivals, was observed across China on Friday with profound religious fervour and festive spirit.Millions of Chinese Muslims marked the occasion with dedication and joy, showcasing their devotion and community solidarity.The Hui Muslims are the mos...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is nominating Vice Adm. Brad Cooper to take over as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, the Pentagon said Wednesday. If he is confirmed, it would mark just the second time that a Navy admiral has held the job.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a...
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip blocked and offloaded dozens of food trucks, the U.N. World Food Program said Saturday, as desperation mounts following Israel's months long blockade and airstrikes while talks of a ceasefire inch forward.The WFP said that 77 trucks carrying aid, mostly flour, were...
Israeli troops shot at people’s feet. His cousin was wounded in the left foot, he said. “The gunfire was very intense,” he said. “The sand was jumping all around us.”In a statement Thursday, GHF said no shots had been fired at any of its distribution centers the past th...
French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed speculation around a viral video showing his wife, Brigitte Macron, seemingly pushing him away as they landed in Vietnam, saying the couple was simply joking.The footage, which quickly gained attention in France, captured the first lady placing both han...
At least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza in a 24-hour period, Gaza’s health ministry said Friday, as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive and let in minimal aid to the strip.The dead included 10 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, four in the central to...
Grabbing her daughter's feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old's protruding ribs and swollen belly. The child lies on a hospital bed, heaving, then wails uncontrollably, throwing her arms around her own shoulders as if to console herself.This isn't the first time May...
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, early Friday morning, damaging over 100 homes but causing no reported injuries, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).The quake occurred at 2:52 a.m. local time (1952 GMT on Thursday), with its epicentre located offshore...
The civil war in Myanmar, maritime disputes in the South China Sea and U.S. tariff hikes will top the agenda of a two-day Southeast Asian summit next week, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.The meeting in Malaysia, the current chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ...
Nearly 280 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are demanding unpaid wages and other compensation amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars after their employer, a plastic parts manufacturer supplying major Japanese brands, shut down its operations.Kawaguchi Manufacturing, based in Port Klang...
A court in Beijing on Friday sentenced a prominent Chinese journalist to seven in years in prison for espionage, his family said.Dong Yuyu, a commentator and editor, was taken away by police while meeting a Japanese diplomat at a restaurant in February 2022. He has been in police custody since then....
Israeli aircraft struck Hezbollah weapons smuggling sites along Syria's border with Lebanon, the Israeli military said Saturday, testing a fragile, days-old ceasefire that halted months of fighting between the sides but has seen continued sporadic fire.The military said it struck sites that had ...
Thousands of demonstrators protesting the Georgian government's decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union rallied outside the parliament and clashed with police for a second straight night on Friday.The night before, police used water cannons, pepper spray and tear gas to dispe...
Authorities reopened roads linking Pakistan's capital with the rest of the country, ending a four-day lockdown, on Wednesday after using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who marched to Islamabad to demand his release from pris...
NATO’s new Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday said the alliance “needs to go further” to support Ukraine in its fight against a Russian invasion and accused Moscow of dangerously escalating the conflict by bringing in thousands of North Korean troops. “In pursuing i...
akistani police arrested thousands of Imran Khan supporters as the capital remained under lockdown ahead of a rally there to demand the ex-premier’s release from prison, a security officer said Sunday.Khan has been behind bars for more than a year and has over 150 criminal cases against him. B...
Pakistan has sealed off capital Islamabad ahead of a planned rally by supporters of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan.It’s the second time in as many months that authorities have imposed such measures to thwart tens of thousands of people from gathering in the city to demand Khan’s re...
Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region's deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said.The attack happened in Kurram, a di...
North Korea recently supplied additional artillery systems to Russia to support its war efforts against Ukraine, while some of the thousands of North Korean troops deployed in Russia have begun engaging in combat, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday.The South Korean assessment ca...
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