US envoy presses Israel-Hezbollah truce bid in Lebanon visit
Hochstein said an end to the war was "now within our grasp", while Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker Nabih Berri, said the...
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HRW accuses Israel of ‘war crime’ with ‘forcible transfer’ in Gaza
Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel's repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the "war...
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US, UK launch new strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen
A Houthi military official told the rebels's Al-Masirah TV that fighters will continue to target Israeli ships heading to "the...
- Houthi rebels vowed to continue attacking shipping in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians
- The US and Britain attacked nearly 30 sites in Yemen with more than 150 munitions last week
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Kuwait gets first non-royal foreign minister as ‘reform’ era starts
Abdullah al-Yahya, a former ambassador to Argentina, was named in the coveted role as part of a hand-picked cabinet of...
- In his inaugural speech last month, Sheikh Meshal had strongly criticized the recurring political crises that have long frustrated Kuwaitis.
- The OPEC member, home to seven percent of the world's oil reserves, has the Gulf's most powerful parliament but suffers chronic legislative deadlock
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Record 116 tons of cocaine seized at Belgium’s Antwerp port in 2023
Vlissingen, Netherlands - Cocaine seizures at the Belgian port of Antwerp, the top gateway into Europe for mainly South American drug...
- The cocaine is usually hidden in containers, or sometimes underneath ships in openings below the water line where they are then recovered by divers.
- Belgium, neighboring Netherlands and Spain are the top three European nations for illegal cocaine imports, mostly from Panama, Colombia and Ecuador
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UN warns of ‘bleak future’ facing Gazans after war ends
At least 24,448Â Palestinians, more than 70 percent of them women, young children and adolescents, have been killed in Israeli bombardments...
- "My fear is that we have now a generation of lost kids," said UN official Lazzarini, describing children who are living in "brutal" conditions and are deeply traumatized.
- Also, UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that a "full-fledged confrontation" between Israel and Lebanon would be a "total disaster".
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Israeli army shoots seven Palestinians dead in West Bank
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on October 7, the West Bank has experienced a level of...
- The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli strike killed four people inside Tulkarem camp early in the morning
- In a separate strike near Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported three men were killed
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WTO head ‘less optimistic’ for world trade due to Red Sea strikes
The head of the international trade body said weaker global economic growth, "worsening geopolitical tensions, the new disruptions we see...
- Before the outbreak of war in Gaza, the WTO had predicted trade would grow by 0.8 percent in 2023 and projected growth of 3.3 percent this year.
- "We think there are a lot of downside risks to the forecasts we had made last year of 3.3% of growth of merchandise volumes this year. So we expect weaker performance," she said.
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Sudan war threatens UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Regional Network for Cultural Rights said it "strongly condemns the incursion by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)", the paramilitary...
- The Cultural Rights group said the incident, which took place on Sunday, marked the second time since December that fighting had broken out at the religious sites
- State authorities reported "an incursion by the RSF, repulsed by the air force", claiming that "calm has returned" without mentioning whether the sites suffered any damage
Turkey’s first astronaut brandishes Erdogan’s ambitions
Erdogan has displayed a keen interest in the mission, which comes against the backdrop of a raging economic crisis and...
- Alper Gezeravci, a fighter pilot and colonel in Turkey's air force, is due to take off on Wednesday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a two-week mission
- He will be joining Swedish, Italian and Spanish astronauts aboard a shuttle provided by the private Axiom Space company, which will be conducting its third flight with NASA
Al Jazeera bureau chief leaves Gaza
Scenes of Dahdouh mourning his family and fleeing on foot from Gaza City have been broadcast globally over the weeks...
- Dahdouh said he is due to travel onwards to Qatar where he will undergo surgery for a wound sustained in an Israeli strike last month
- Khaled Elbalshy, head of the Egyptian journalists' syndicate, said the organization had spoken to Dahdouh after he left Gaza
Millions of Afghans go hungry as winter cold bites
Once flush with humanitarian aid following the US-led invasion of the country, funding to Afghanistan has plummeted since the Taliban...
- Funding shortages have forced WFP to tighten the criteria for aid handouts, with just six million people eligible for emergency assistance in food, cash or vouchers
- Today, approximately 85 percent of Afghans live on less than $1 a day, according to the UN, with extreme poverty found in both rural and urban areas
US envoy presses Israel-Hezbollah truce bid in Lebanon visit
Hochstein said an end to the war was "now within our grasp", while Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker Nabih Berri, said the...
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Israeli army claims deadly strike on ‘Hamas compound’ inside UN school in Gaza
The hospital reported an electrical generator failure earlier in the night, which risked complicating the treatment of patients. Prior to...
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Qatar PM, Egypt intelligence chief meet Hamas in Doha
Qatar, with the United States and Egypt, has been engaged in months of negotiations over details for a ceasefire in...
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Hamas says Israel wants ‘endless’ truce negotiations
Hamas had told mediators it "cannot agree to a deal that doesn't that does not secure... a permanent ceasefire and...
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Trump warns jail time could be ‘breaking point’ for supporters
In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News, the former president and current Republican White House hopeful acknowledged the possibility...
- The warning will resonate in a country already concerned about the prospect of civil unrest and political harassment in the run-up to the November election
- Trump will now be running as a felon, and he has repeatedly refused to commit to accepting the result should he lose to President Joe Biden
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12 pro-regime fighters killed in Israeli strike near Syria’s Aleppo: NGO
The Syrian Ministry of Defence said in a statement that "after midnight... the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from...
- Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on its northern neighbour since the outbreak of Syria's civil war, mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters
- While it rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria, Israel has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence there
Kuwait emir names former PM as new crown prince
Kuwait entered new political turbulence in May when the 83-year-old emir, Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, dissolved parliament just six weeks...