Tunis, Tunisia -- Activists in Tunisia on Sunday called for the closure of facilities at a chemical factory in Gabes,...
Washington, United States - US President Donald Trump has undeniably scored a diplomatic victory by helping to broker a truce...
The British government on Friday called for "utmost transparency" and a "wholly independent review" into the killing of seven aid...Sunak said the children of Gaza needed a "humanitarian pause immediately, leading to a long-term sustainable ceasefire"
The British government, meanwhile, said a Royal Navy ship would be deployed to help get more aid into Gaza
Organizers said about 100,000 people converged at a Tel Aviv crossroads renamed "Democracy Square" since mass protests against controversial judicial...Rallies were also held in other cities, with Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid taking part in one in Kfar Saba ahead of his departure for talks in Washington
Israeli media said clashes had broken out between protesters and police at the Tel Aviv rally and police said one protester had been arrested
- Israel and Hizbollah have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the Palestinian group Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on southern...
Israeli strikes targeted two areas in the Bekaa Valley, Janta and Sifri, the source told AFP in the Baalbek region in Lebanon's east
Janta is an arid, mountainous region close to the border with Syria, while Sifri is in the centre of the Bekaa Valley
- Damascus, Syria - Seven children were killed in southern Syria's Daraa province on Saturday when an "explosive device" detonated, state media...
The Britain-based monitor said militias were accused of planting the device in order to target an unidentified person in the area.
Syria's war, which escalated into a deadly conflict that pulled in gunmen and foreign armies, has killed more than 507,000 people.
- United Nations - Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza has escalated into a "betrayal of humanity", the United Nations' humanitarian...
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths called for a "collective determination that there be a reckoning for this betrayal of humanity".
"Each day, this war claims more civilian victims," said Griffiths, who will leave his post at the end of June due to health reasons.
- "The demands ... are complete ceasefire, withdrawal of the occupation forces from Gaza, the return of the displaced to their...
"Hamas confirms its adherence to the position it presented on March 14 ... and we will not back down from this position," it said in a statement.
Negotiators were expected in Cairo over the weekend for a renewed push to strike a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal.
- Tehran, Iran - Iran on Saturday again threatened retaliation for the deaths of seven Revolutionary Guards in a strike on Damascus,...
Tehran has vowed to avenge Monday's air strike on the Syrian capital it blamed on its arch-enemy Israel, which has not commented.
The attack levelled the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus, killing seven Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) members.
- US-based World Central Kitchen -- founded by Spanish-American celebrity chef Jose Andres -- said a "targeted attack" by Israeli forces...
The aid group which were killed Gaza included 43-year-old Australian national Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom, as well as British, Palestinian, Polish and US-Canadian employees
"Australia had made clear that we have not yet received sufficient information to satisfy our expectations" about Frankcom's death, the Foreign Minister Penny Wong said
US, Egypt and Qatar have been engaged in weeks of behind-the-scenes talks in a bid to secure a temporary truce...Biden has written letters to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar on the state of the talks
His call with Netanyahu included discussions on "getting a hostage deal done"
- Monday's strike in the Syrian capital levelled the five-storey consular annex of the Iranian embassy and killed seven Iranian Revolutionary...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Israel "will be punished" for the consulate strike
Israel said Thursday it was strengthening its defenses and pausing leave for combat units following Iran's threats to retaliate
