CAIRO: Israeli strikes killed at least 25 people, including six children, in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian health authorities said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken dashed to Tel Aviv in a bid to push forward Gaza ceasefire negotiations. The children and their mother were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Deir […]
A court in Bangladesh opened Tuesday a murder investigation into ousted ex-premier Sheikh Hasina and six top figures in her administration over the police killing of a man during civil unrest last month. Hasina, 76, fled by helicopter a week ago to neighbouring India as protesters flooded Dhaka’s streets in a dramatic end to her iron-fisted tenure. “A case has been filed […]
KHAN YUNIS: Israel expanded evacuation orders in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip overnight, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian residents and displaced families to leave in the dark as explosions from tank shelling reverberated around them. Palestinians already displaced numerous times by Israeli air strikes were forced to flee Al-Halaa and other northern neighbourhoods […]
WASHINGTON: The United States has said it is ready to work with the interim government of Bangladesh as the country charts a democratic future for its people. An interim government led by Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus is set to take oath in Bangladesh on Thursday. “We continue to monitor developments in Bangladesh, and we obviously […]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday recommended its citizens not to travel to Bangladesh, witnessing civil unrest, crime, and terrorism following the resignation and fleeing of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Elevating its travel advisory to the highest ‘Level 4: Do Not Travel’ category, the US State Department has also recommended the departure of […]
• Army chief announces ex-PM’s resignation, says interim govt in the works • Ousted ruler flies to India; political leaders meet military chiefs to discuss future set-up • Khaleda Zia freed from prison; jubilation on the streets as protesters storm premier’s ‘palace’, make off with ‘souvenirs’ • 66 deaths reported on Monday • Curfew ends […]
Cheering protesters stormed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace on Monday after she fled, the culmination of more than a month of deadly anti-government protests. Since late July, Bangladesh has been engulfed by protests and violence that has so far claimed the lives of at least 300 people, according to an AFP tally based on […]
GAZA STRIP: Israeli strikes hit two schools and a hospital in Gaza, killing more than 40 Palestinians and leaving dozens of others injured, the Palestinian official news agency said. Israel has struck at least 172 “designated shelters”, mostly schools, housing thousands of displaced families in past over 10 months, the Hamas-run government media office said, […]
Iran held funeral processions on Thursday amidst calls for revenge after the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike in Tehran blamed on Israel. The Islamic Republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers for Haniyeh ahead of his burial in Qatar, having earlier threatened a “harsh punishment” for his killing. In […]
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran’s Tehran, the Palestinian group Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday. In a statement, the group mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”. HOME DAWN