International Desk: At least nine people were killed and 75 injured when a UN facility sheltering civilians was struck in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the UN’s Palestinian refugee age... Read more
International Desk: Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange, and a... Read more
International Desk: More than 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza during Israel’s offensive there, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. It said there had been 178 deaths... Read more
AP/UNB: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says the kingdom will not normalize relations with Israel or contribute to Gaza’s reconstruction without a credible pathway to a Palestini... Read more
World News Desk: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found that Israel was one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists in 2023. The press freedom watchdog published its annu... Read more
World News Desk: Pakistan conducted strikes inside Iran on Thursday, targeting separatist militants, the Pakistani foreign ministry said, two days after Tehran said it attacked Israel-linked... Read more
World News Desk: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state once the conflict in Gaza comes to an e... Read more
AFP: Iran blamed Israel and the United States on Wednesday for twin bomb blasts that killed at least 95 people in the country’s south, ripping through a crowd commemorating Revolutiona... Read more
AFP: The UN’s top court will hear submissions next week from South Africa and Israel after Pretoria opened a case for what it called Israel’s “genocidal” acts in Gaza. Sout... Read more
AFP, Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to wreak “wrath” against Russian forces in 2024, hours before Ukraine saw attacks on the first day of the year. Russia and Ukraine h... Read more
AFP: At least 111 people were killed when an earthquake collapsed buildings in northwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue workers raced to start digging through rubble. About 1... Read more
World News Desk: The head of the UN health agency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has spoken out against the “effective destruction” of a hospital in northern Gaza by Israeli forces over the week... Read more
A Chinese naval formation led by the Shandong aircraft carried sailed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday, Taipei’s defence ministry said. The carrier group entered the strait that sep... Read more
Orders local polls by Sept 30; Modi hails verdict; Pakistan rejects ruling World News Desk: India’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister N... Read more
The United Nations said Monday that it needed $46.4 billion next year to bring life-saving help to around 180 million people in desperate circumstances around the world. The UN said the glob... Read more
BSS/TASS: At least 310 Palestinians were killed in Gaza in 24 hours between Thursday and Friday as the Israeli military blasted the enclave from air, land and sea, Al Jazeera reports, citing... Read more
World News Desk: Dozens of alleged human rights abusers around the world face new sanctions Friday under a coordinated action by the United States, Britain and Canada to mark the 75th annive... Read more
World News Desk: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the adoption by the Danish Parliament of a Law criminalizing “inappropriate treatment of writings with significant rel... Read more
– The Philippines has been involved in a years-long dispute with China – Under Japan’s new aid scheme the Philippine Navy will receive $4 million worth of coastal surveilla... Read more
Crimea and Donbass were non-negotiable, Vladimir Medinsky has said World News Desk: Kiev could have stopped the conflict in April 2022 by recognizing the independence of the two Donbass repu... Read more
