Italy recovers 19 bodies from boat
Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and migrant ...
Tanker hit by two projectiles off Qatar, one unexploded, UKMTO says
A tanker struck off Qatar was hit by two projectiles, one causing a fire that has since been extinguished and another remaining unexploded in the vessel’s engine room, the ...
US eyes a swift end to war as fresh attacks hit Gulf states and Iran
President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the end of the war on Iran could be near, signalling potential for both direct talks with Tehran’s ...
American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad, police officials say
An American journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday and authorities are searching the city for her, two police officials said.
The Iraqi interior ministry confirmed the abduction of a ...
UN thanks Cyprus for latest Amalthea shipment
United Nations office for project service (Unops) executive director Jorge Moreira da Silva on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for providing its latest shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of ...
EU top diplomats in Ukraine to mark Bucha massacre
The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas and several EU foreign ministers arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Bucha massacre and to voice ...
US says coming days in Iran war will be decisive, urges Tehran to make a deal
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if ...
Spain’s PM labels Israel’s death penalty law ‘step towards apartheid’
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned as a “step towards apartheid” Monday’s approval by the Israeli parliament of a law that would impose death sentence for Palestinians convicted ...
Trump urges countries seeking oil to go to Strait of Hormuz and ‘just take it’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged countries that did not help in the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran to buy American oil and go to the Strait of Hormuz ...
King Charles to pay state visit to US as UK seeks to mollify Trump
King Charles will make a state visit to the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, a high-profile trip that the British government hopes will help to ...
Italy’s population stops shrinking after 12 years, thanks to migration
Italy’s population has stabilised after 12 years of decline, with immigration almost entirely offsetting a shrinking number of births, while life expectancy continues to rise, national statistics agency ISTAT said ...
NASA set for first crewed moon return in over half a century
NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a critical test flight in humanity’s broader lunar ...
After Spain, Italy refuses US aircraft use of Sicily base for Middle East operations
Daily Corriere della Sera reported “some U.S. bombers” had been due to land at the base in eastern Sicily before heading to the Middle East. It did not say ...
EU tells members to prepare for ‘prolonged disruption’ to energy markets from Iran war
European Union governments should prepare for a “prolonged disruption” to energy markets as a result of the Iran war, the bloc’s energy chief has told countries’ ministers ahead of ...
UK’s Starmer gives doctors’ union 48 hours to reconsider pay and workforce deal
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on the union for resident doctors in England to reconsider a proposed pay and workforce deal, giving it 48 hours to accept the offer as ...
Ukrainian drones damage Russia’s Ust-Luga port again, governor says
Ukrainian drones have again damaged Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, the governor of the local region said on Tuesday, potentially adding to Russia’s difficulties in exporting oil.
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Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks, law does not apply to Jewish Israelis
Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister ...
Fire extinguished on Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian attack in Dubai waters
A fire on board a fully loaded Kuwaiti crude oil tanker hit by an Iranian attack at Dubai Port’s anchorage on Monday was extinguished, authorities said, after the strike ...
Trump interested in calling on Arab states to help pay for Iran war, White House says
US President Donald Trump would be interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost of the Iran war, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on ...
Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister ...
Israel blocks cardinal from Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, sparking outcry
Israel blocked Jerusalem’s Catholic cardinal from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, sparking an international outcry that led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse the ...
Three UN peacekeepers killed in Lebanon as Israeli strikes pummel south
Three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon after a bloody weekend in which Lebanese journalists and medics were killed in Israeli strikes.
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White House says no change in Cuba policy after Russian tanker waiver
The White House said on Monday it has not changed US policy toward Cuba, even as it allowed a sanctioned Russian tanker to deliver fuel to the island for humanitarian ...
Trump issues new warning to Tehran, Iran calls US peace proposals ‘unrealistic’
President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran’s energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US ...