The Palestinian Civil Defence and medics said 12 people from the same family in north Gaza’s Jabalia were among those killed in the Israeli attacks. The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that 1,978 people have now been killed and 5,207 injured since Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas on March 18, 2025. At least 51,355 […]
A Ministry of Commerce task force is collecting lists of items that could be exempted from tariffs and is asking companies to submit their requests, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Financial news magazine Caijing reported on Friday, citing sources, that Beijing was preparing to include eight semiconductor-related items, although not […]
Iran is looking to build on the momentum of nuclear negotiations with the United States that resume in Oman on Saturday and after talks with Russia and China earlier this week. Its reach out to the European powers that are party to a 2015 nuclear deal suggests Tehran is keeping its options open. Since September, […]
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ruled that the Trump administration cannot enforce parts of the order requiring federal election officials to assess whether people who are registering to vote are citizens. She declined, however, to block parts of the order that sought to force states not to count mail-in ballots received after election […]
US President Donald Trump has said he is “not happy” with deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv and that President Vladimir Putin should “stop” – but has not said if further action might be taken against Russia. Overnight into Thursday, the attacks on the Ukrainian capital killed at least 12 people and injured 90 others. The […]
Wu Weiren, in a rare interview with foreign media, told Reuters that China pursued a policy of open space diplomacy, in contrast with the U.S., and that it remained open to cooperating on lunar exploration with developing and developed countries. Wu said the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), an initiative led by Russia and China […]
Gunmen killed 26 men — all Indian except one Nepali — in the tourist hotpot of Pahalgam on Tuesday, the deadliest attack on civilians in the contested Muslim-majority territory since 2000. The killings have shocked the world’s most populous country and enraged Hindu nationalist groups. Kashmiri students in states including Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal […]
Taiwan had been due to be hit with 32% U.S. tariffs two weeks ago, until President Donald Trump paused his “reciprocal tariffs” for 90 days. Speaking at a news conference in Taipei, Premier Cho Jung-tai said the initial T$88 billion ($2.71 billion) aid package would be increased to as much as T$410 billion ($12.61 billion), […]
At least six Palestinians, including a woman and four children, were also killed in an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. Palestinian mourners held a funeral for a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank town of al-Yamoun. Israeli settlers shot five Palestinians, as […]
Ukrainian authorities issued an alert for a missile attack, and AFP journalists heard explosions across the capital. “Russia has launched a massive combined strike on Kyiv,” Ukraine’s state emergency service said on Telegram, updating the toll. “According to preliminary data, nine people were killed, 63 injured,” it said, adding that among the 42 people hospitalised, […]
