Israel approves major West Bank settlement project, sparks international outcry
Israel has long had ambitions to build on the roughly 12-square-kilometre parcel known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, but...Geostrategy
Stock markets cautious with eyes on Ukraine talks, US rates
Markets were also waiting for a key speech by the US Federal Reserve chief this week for clues on interest...Geostrategy
Hamas says pulling out of Gaza truce talks, as Israel keeps up strikes
A Hamas official said Sunday that the Palestinian group was withdrawing from Gaza truce talks, as Israeli bombardments hit a...On Sunday, Israeli forces struck a UN-run school in the central Nuseirat refugee camp
Four previous strikes on schools turned shelters since July 6 killed a total of at least 49 people
Biden tells Americans to ‘cool it down’ after Trump assassination bid
As the country reeled from images of a bloodied Trump waving his fist after the gunman opened fire at a...Biden also mentioned the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack by pro-Trump supporters as proof that the situation is getting out of hand
Just before Biden's speech, Trump landed in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, during which he will formally be anointed the party's nominee
Donald Trump wounded at rally shooting, Biden leads condemnation
US President Joe Biden led the condemnation after his election rival Donald Trump was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt...Political leaders on both sides of the aisle slammed the attack minutes after the Republican candidate was rushed off stage by the Secret Service with blood running down his face
"The idea that there's political violence, or violence in America like this, is just unheard of. It's just not appropriate. Everybody, everybody must condemn it," Biden said
Battles rock Gaza City after mass evacuation order
US President Joe Biden said that US diplomats were making "progress" with international mediators towards a ceasefire and stressed that...A major focus of recent battles and mass displacement has been the biggest urban area, Gaza City
Israel's military said it was also fighting in the Rafah area
Israel defense minister says “60 percent” of Hamas dead or wounded
Israel has launched major new offensives in Gaza City, even as it also embarks on contacts with international mediators on...Gallant reaffirmed that Israel was "determined" to meet its war goals of eradicating Hamas
"We have eliminated or wounded 60 percent of the Hamas terrorists", he said
What we know about the rocky ‘roadmap’ to an elusive Gaza ceasefire
Jerusalem, Undefined - Qatari and Egyptian mediators are cajoling Israel and Hamas towards negotiations on a plan to end their war,...US President Joe Biden first outlined in late May what he called an Israeli initiative for a truce and hostage release deal
Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble and its 2.4 million people are surviving on sporadic aid deliveries
Heavy battles in Gaza City on eve of new truce talks
Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately stepping up battles in Gaza City and far-southern Rafah to...Troops, tanks and aircraft were fighting in Gaza on the eve of new truce talks
Israeli forces on Monday intensified fighting and bombardment across the city
Erdogan says may invite Syria’s Assad to Turkey ‘at any moment’
Erdogan's comments come after tensions have mounted over the past week after a mob went on the rampage, vandalising businesses...Turkey originally aimed to topple Assad's regime when the Syrian conflict erupted with the violent suppression of peaceful protesters in 2011
But more recently, Ankara has shifted focus to preventing what Erdogan in 2019 dubbed a "terror corridor" from opening up in northern Syria
‘Enough’: Israeli protesters demand Gaza truce
Large protests, also demanding elections, have taken place across Israel's commercial hub every Saturday night, with smaller ones throughout the...The demonstrators want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a truce and hostage-release deal or else step down
The nationwide "disruption day" began at 6:29 am to correspond to the start of Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that started the war
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says 16 killed in strike on school
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said two of its workers were killed in a strike at Al-Bureij in...The ministry, which condemned the strike as an "odious massacre", said another 50 injured were taken to hospital from Al-Jawni school at Nuseirat in central Gaza
Israel has carried out a military offensive that has killed at least 38,098 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data from the Gaza health ministry
