Each casket was shown with a photo of a body, including Shiri Bibas, her two young sons Kfir and Ariel, and a fourth captive, Oded Lifshitz. Red Cross loaded coffins in vehicles after Hamas handed over dead hostages, an AFP journalist reported. The remains released from the Gaza Strip are of Shiri Bibas and her […]
“The current environment in Gaza, including overcrowding in shelters and severely damaged water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure, which facilitates fecal-oral transmission, create ideal conditions for further spread of poliovirus,” the WHO statement said. “Extensive population movement consequent to the current ceasefire is likely to exacerbate the spread of poliovirus infection,” it added. In September and […]
A commentary carried by KCNA said Washington should be wary of consequences for what it said were nuclear alliances, naming AUKUS and the trilateral cooperation with South Korea and Japan. Australia just made its first $500 million payment to the U.S. under the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. Under AUKUS, Australia will pay the United States […]
The plan stirred rare unity among Arab states which roundly rejected the idea, but they could still disagree over who will govern the Palestinian territory and who will pay for reconstruction. Umer Karim, an expert on Saudi foreign policy, told AFP the summit would be the “most consequential” in decades about the wider Arab world […]
Thousands of foreigners are expected to be freed and returned from scam compounds in Myanmar in the coming weeks, starting with 600 Chinese over the next three days. A plane repatriating the first load of Chinese online scam centre workers later took off from Thailand on Thursday. The specially arranged China Southern Airlines flight took […]
Trump spoke hours after Zelenskiy hit back at his suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, saying the U.S. president was trapped in a Russian disinformation bubble. “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskiy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social media […]
For the 2025 Hajj season, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has unveiled four primary packages for local pilgrims, including residents and foreign nationals. The pilgrims may study and choose from these packages according to their needs since they are made to accommodate a range of budgets and tastes. The government used its Nusuk computer […]
Sheikh Mohammed “affirmed the UAE’s firm position rejecting any attempts aimed at displacing the Palestinian people from their land”, the Gulf state’s WAM news agency said. Rubio departed Abu Dhabi after a brief stop in the UAE, the final leg of his first Middle East tour, which included discussions on a proposal by US President […]
Tuesday afternoon’s clashes began after the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) sought to recruit students at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in the country’s southwest. That sparked a confrontation with campus members of Students Against Discrimination, a protest group that led the uprising that ousted autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina last […]
Four bodies of hostages will be returned to Israel on Thursday. A spokesperson of Hamas proposes exchanging all Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners in “one go”, to reach a permanent truce and a full Israeli pullout. Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said the negotiations for the second stage of the deal will happen this […]
