Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries over currency plans
Washington, United States - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations...
Five forgotten conflicts of 2024
he wars in the Mideast and Ukraine-Russia have dominated world headlines in 2024 but several other conflicts are ravaging countries...
Israel troops to ‘go into action’ soon at Lebanon border: minister
Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has seen near-daily exchanges of...
- Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi said earlier this month that the likelihood of war on the northern border has become "much higher"
- Gallant said Monday that Gaza fighters were running out of supplies and ammunition, but that the war against Hamas "will take months"
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UN chief to meet donor nations after UNRWA accusations
Several countries, including the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, have announced the suspension of further funding to the...
- UNRWA said it acted promptly over allegations but that cuts in funding will affect ordinary Palestinians
- In Gaza people said the support they received from the agency amounted to a lifeline
Qatar says Gaza truce proposal to be sent to Hamas as war rages on
Sheikh Mohammed confirmed that the framework -- which he said might lead to a permanent ceasefire -- includes a phased...
- Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said "good progress" had been made and the parties were "hoping to relay this proposal to Hamas
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has called the Paris talks "constructive" but pointed to "significant gaps which the parties will continue to discuss"
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Saudi envoy to US deplores Western media criticism of women rights in kingdom
Washington D.C., US--– Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US, Reema Bandar Al-Saud, has expressed disappointment with recent media criticism of...
- The ambassador, reacting to an opinion piece in the Washington Post, slammed the piece for relying on "outdated stereotypes and western-centric views"
- She cited inaccuracies in the portrayal of Saudi women as oppressed and devoid of rights and said that the kingdom has made substantial progress in women's rights
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We want complete ceasefire, not temporary truce: Hamas
Taher al-Nunu, a senior Hamas official, said his group wanted a "complete and comprehensive ceasefire, and not a temporary truce."...
- Extensive talks in Paris had resulted in a framework for a phased truce
- The framework would see women and children hostages released first
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Two million people may die in Gaza without world’s help: Turkish foreign minister
Ankara, Turkey - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday expressed serious apprehensions about the escalating situation in the Gaza...
- Hakan Fidan described the current events as "a tragedy on another scale" and emphasized the need for prompt preventive measures
- If people in Gaza also begin to die of hunger and disease, it will become a great moral burden that the world will not be able to bear, he said
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Israeli troops bulldoze, desecrate Palestinian graves in Gaza
Palestinian Territories - Even the dead are not spared by the Hamas-Israel war raging in Gaza, with bodies dug up...
- In Gaza City's Al-Tuffah district, shrouded corpses of Palestinians torn from their graves lay atop muddied earth.
- Israel's military had bulldozed the site and exhumed bodies, according to an AFP photographer who visited it.
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Residents of Gaza lament suspension of UN agency funding
Gazans lamented the suspension of funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees by several donor countries after Israel charged...
- Several countries, including the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, have announced the suspension of further funding to the agency.
- In Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced people have taken refuge, Gazans said that the support they received from the agency amounted to a lifeline.
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Gaza bombing continues amid fears of wider regional conflict
Israel's relentless military offensive has since killed at least 26,422 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according...
- 140 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombing overnight, including 20 members of one family, said the health ministry in the Palestinian territory.
- In the latest efforts to broker a new ceasefire, CIA chief William Burns met top Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Paris on Sunday, but no breakthrough was reported.
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Pakistan and Iran vow to restore ties after cross-border strikes
Tehran carried out strikes against an anti-Iran group in Pakistan on January 16, the same week the nation's military targeted...
- During Pakistan visit, Iranian foreign minister said the hostilities could not be described as a "crisis" because relations had always been strong
- Pakistan Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani told the same briefing that both sides had agreed to strengthen dialogue at all levels
Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries over currency plans
Washington, United States - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations...
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Blinken presses for Gaza aid on Jordan visit
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Early returns show reformist Pezeshkian leading Iran runoff vote: interior ministry
Iran held the first round of its snap presidential election last week which was marked by a record low turnout....
Reformist faces ultraconservative as Iran votes for president
In a contest between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the election comes amid heightened regional tension
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah rains rockets on Israel as Gaza war rages
Fire and smoke billows after rockets fired from southern Lebanon hit areas in northern Israel on July 4, 2024. (AFP).
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Syrian-based armed Iraqi groups ready to fight Israel to support Lebanon if war breaks out
As war rages in Gaza and threatens to spread to Lebanon, Iraqi militant groups warn they are ready to enter...
- Pro-Iran armed groups so-called "Axis of Resistance" is an alliance that includes Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Huthi rebels
- In late January, a drone strike launched by Iraqi armed groups killed three US soldiers across the border in Jordan
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Pro-Palestinian group scales Australia’s parliament
Sydney, Australia - Protesters scaled Australia's national parliament on Thursday, unfurling banners reading "Palestine will be free", and accusing Prime Minister...
- The protest follows recent divisions within the Labor government, which suspended a Muslim senator who voted in favour of Australia recognizing a Palestinian state
- Senator Fatima Payman said she had been "exiled" after supporting the parliamentary motion - put forward by the Greens party - in defiance of government policy
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Israel will not allow ‘winds of defeatism’ in Hamas war: Netanyahu
After a visit to troops on Monday, he said: "I saw very considerable achievements in the fighting being carried in...
- After the October 7 attacks by Hamas, Netanyahu's right-wing government vowed to destroy Hamas and return all hostages seized during the deadly incursion by the Palestinian group
- Netanyahu made his new vow of victory after the New York Times quoted sources as saying Israel was ready to make a deal without reaching all its goals