Israeli offensive in Rafah ‘must not be allowed to happen’, UN says
The United Nations human rights office said on Friday that an Israeli offensive in Gaza’s border town of Rafah could not be allowed to happen because it would cause ...
UN rights chief says transfer by Israel of its own population in occupied Palestinian territories is a war crime
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories have expanded by a record amount and risk eliminating any practical possibly of a Palestinian state, the U.N. human rights chief said ...
Gunmen kidnap 227 pupils from school in Nigeria
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped more than 200 school pupils in the northern town of Kuriga, a teacher, local councillor and parents of the missing children said, in the biggest mass abduction ...
Gaza ceasefire talks show no sign of progress, US says onus on Hamas
Hamas on Thursday left Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo where there was no sign of progress just days before the start of Ramadan, while the U.S. said the onus ...
State of the Union: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in feisty speech
President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he ...
UK house prices rise for 5th consecutive month
British house prices rose for a fifth month in a row in February, climbing by 0.4 per cent from January, according to data from mortgage lender Halifax on Thursday that echoed ...
Russia oil fleet shifts away from Liberia, Marshall Island flags amid US sanctions crackdown
Dozens of oil tankers used by Russia have stopped sailing under the Liberian and Marshall Islands flags in recent weeks after the United States ramped up sanctions enforcement on ships ...
Russian aircraft strike fighters’ bases in Syria, military official says
Russian aircraft struck two bases operated by fighters in Syria’s Idlib province, a Russian official was quoted by news agencies as saying on Thursday, claiming to have killed 20 anti-government ...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to visit Turkey on Friday, Turkish presidency says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Turkey on Friday and meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Presidency said.
In a post on social media platform X, the Turkish Presidency ...
US to build temporary port to deliver Gaza aid
President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to ...
Sweden joins NATO as war in Ukraine prompts security rethink
Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and conclude that support for the alliance ...
Six Sri Lankans knifed to death in Canadian capital in rare case of mass murder
Six people from Sri Lanka, including a mother and four young children, were knifed to death in the Canadian capital Ottawa late on Wednesday, police said on Thursday, rocking a ...
Indians killed in Ukraine were forced to fight for Russia, families say
When Mohammed Asfan from India’s Hyderabad city travelled to Russia to work as a “helper” in the army, his family never imagined he would end up fighting in the ...
Netanyahu: Israel will push on with offensive against Hamas
Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas, including into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing international pressure to stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
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Putin ally says Russia did not target Zelenskiy’s motorcade in Odesa
A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had not targeted the delegation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a missile attack on the port of ...
ECB takes small step towards rate cut as inflation falls
The European Central Bank kept borrowing costs at record highs on Thursday but took a first, small step towards lowering them, saying inflation was easing faster than it anticipated only ...
‘Fight for life’ by mothers whose daughters still hostages in Gaza
Simona Steinbrecher holds up two images of her daughter, Doron. One shows a young woman with twinkling eyes and a big smile. The other, from a video distributed by Hamas 107 ...
In State of the Union, Biden to sharpen contrast with Trump
U.S. President Joe Biden will use his fourth State of the Union address on Thursday night to sharpen distinctions between him and Republican opponent Donald Trump, tout the country’...
Von der Leyen wins backing to lead EU for 5 more years
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday won the backing of the EU’s leading political group, the centre-right European People’s Party, to head the bloc’s ...
Egypt secures IMF deal after pound plunge, bumper rate hike
Egypt secured an expanded $8 billion deal on Wednesday with the International Monetary Fund, hours after the central bank unshackled its currency and delivered a 600 basis points rate hike in a ...
Senior Russian officer warns Ukraine conflict could escalate into full-scale war in Europe
A senior Russian military officer has warned that the conflict in Ukraine could escalate into a full-scale war in Europe and said the probability of Moscow’s forces becoming involved ...
Strike wave hits German rail and airports as disputes mount
Germany faced strikes on three fronts on Thursday, as train drivers, airport security workers and Lufthansa LHAG.DE ground staff walked off the job, spelling further headaches for millions of ...
Bridging divides: US and Turkey navigate path through disagreements in high-stakes talks”
The US and Turkey are set to kick off comprehensive talks on Thursday to discuss if the NATO allies can move beyond deep rooted disagreements over issues such as Syria ...
Israel sells record $8 billion in bonds despite Oct 7 attacks, downgrade
Israel raised a record $8 billion in its first international bond sale since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, with very high demand even after Moody’s gave Israel its first ever sovereign ...