United Nations: India has voiced deep concern over the deteriorating security situation and large-scale loss of civilian life in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, urging the parties to work towards creating conditions necessary for peace and restarting direct negotiations through de-escalation and ending violence. The remarks by India’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R […]
• Leaflets carry warnings to leave north Gaza ‘or be considered terrorists’ • 260 Gazans dead in 24 hours, 8 killed in West Bank • 29 UN workers slain so far RAFAH: An aid convoy carrying desperately needed fuel entered Gaza on Sunday, as Israel intensified strikes on the besieged enclave that is suffering a […]
TWO days after the air strike on Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab hospital, the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera has disputed the Israeli army claim that the explosion at the hospital resulted from a failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad. The Israel Defence Forces have used Al Jazeera’s live feed at the time of the attack as proof that one […]
CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, adding it would set a precedent for “the displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank into Jordan”. The border between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip is the site of the […]
HERAT: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed two people in western Afghanistan on Sunday, with damaged prisons emptied and residents fleeing a region where tremors have claimed at least 1,000 lives this past week. Since Oct 7, a series of potent quakes have jolted Herat province, levelling whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as […]
Kathmandu: Ten Nepali nationals have been killed and four others injured in Israel after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a wave of rocket attacks in the country’s southern region, Nepal’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Hamas carried out a barrage of airstrikes in Southern Israel on Saturday, killing over 600 people, including soldiers, and […]
Israeli troops fought to regain control of the desert around the Gaza Strip and evacuate people from the embattled border area on Monday, as the death toll from the conflict with Hamas surged above 1,100 by the third day of clashes. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israel on Sunday to prepare for a “long and […]
Gun battles raged on Sunday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces a day after the Palestinian group launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza. The conflict’s bloodiest escalation in decades saw Hamas carry out a massive rocket barrage and ground, air and sea offensive on Saturday. The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose to 370 […]
WASHINGTON: Twenty US senators, all of them Democrats, expressed support on Wednesday for a potential Israeli-Saudi normalisation deal, but laid out concerns about any security guarantees or nuclear assistance to Riyadh. In a letter to President Joe Biden, the senators underscored resistance the White House could face from Congress if the administration brokers a landmark […]
Flags flew at half-mast over Venice on Wednesday after 21 people including a toddler were killed when a bus careered off an overpass and caught fire. “The bus flipped upside down. The impact was terrible because it fell from over 10 metres (32 feet)” landing next to railway tracks below, said Mauro Luongo, Venice’s fire […]
