Nearly half a million migrants being detained between Oct. 1 and Dec. 26 suggests measures intensified towards the end of the year. Since the start of the year, some 900,000 migrants have been detained, the government said earlier this month. “We think it’s a model that works, that can always be improved, but that has […]
“The occupation forces have taken dozens of the medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital to a detention centre for interrogation, including the director, Hossam Abu Safiyeh,” the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement. The Gaza Civil Defence Agency also reported that Abu Safiyeh had been detained, adding that the agency’s director for the […]
Elsewhere in Gaza, Israeli strikes killed at least 25 people, including 15 people in a single house in Gaza City, medics and the civil emergency service said. The Palestinian health ministry said contact with staff inside the hospital in Beit Lahiya, which has been under heavy pressure from Israeli forces for weeks, had been lost. […]
Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has repeatedly used air defence systems against Ukrainian drones. “I thought the plane was going to fall apart,” Subhonkul Rakhimov, one of the passengers, said from the hospital, […]
The impeachment of Prime Minister Han, the acting president since Yoon was impeached on Dec. 14 for declaring martial law on Dec. 3, has pushed South Korea’s once-vibrant democratic success story into uncharted territory. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok, who assumed the position of acting president while the cases of Yoon and Han were considered by […]
A vessel carrying out pre-shipment maneuvers caused the spill on Saturday at a terminal of Peru’s Talara refinery in northern Peru. Petroperu has not said how much crude was spilled into the sea, but Peru’s environmental watchdog OEFA said in a preliminary report it has affected some 10,000 square meters of surface seawater, and the […]
In a statement on X, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was in Yemen “to negotiate the release of UN staff detainees and to assess the health and humanitarian situation” in the country. He provided no further details about who the UN detainees were. Referring to the strikes at Sanaa’s airport, he said: “The air traffic […]
Assad fled Syria after an Islamist-led offensive wrested from his control city after city until Damascus fell on December 8, ending his clan’s five-decade rule and more than 13 years of civil war. Syria’s new leaders from the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) face the monumental task of safeguarding the multi-sectarian, multi-ethnic country from […]
The violent mutiny sent shock waves through the South Asian nation and ended with the army crushing the mutineers, with scores arrested and sentenced to death. A previous official investigation into the mutiny which left scores dead blamed years of pent-up anger among ordinary soldiers, who felt their appeals for pay rises and better treatment […]
A missile hit the journalists’ broadcast truck as it was parked in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a statement from their employer, Al-Quds Today. It is affiliated with Islamic Jihad, whose militants have fought alongside Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The channel identified the five staffers as Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman […]
