With AI and more shade, Saudi Arabia set for a searing hajj
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- With artificial intelligence, more shade and misting machines, Saudi authorities are preparing to welcome more than...Geostrategy
US-backed group says it has begun aid distribution in Gaza
A controversial US-backed aid group for Gaza announced Monday that it had begun distributing food in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory,...Geostrategy
Palestinian Monetary Authority condemns Israeli raids on exchange firms
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories -- The Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) said Thursday that the Israeli occupation army’s storming of six exchange...The occupation forces raided six exchange companies in different cities in the West Bank, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
They also arrested several of their owners and seized money from their safes after blowing them open.
Donkey head used to desecrate Jerusalem Muslim cemetery
Describing the 35-year-old as "unbalanced", police said he was arrested after they were alerted that a man had "broken the...Police said the man was carrying an axe at the time of his arrest, adding that another suspect who allegedly had helped in taking him there was also in custody
The cemetery is near the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews and is at the heart of tensions between Palestinians and Israelis
‘Alone’: Afghan women fault West for lack of support
Since 2021, France says it has handed over 15,000 visa to Afghans, "mostly women, rights defenders, journalists and magistrates". But...Safi herself has made it to France where she is seeking asylum, but her sister Frozan died in a hail of bullets back home
Speaking in a shelter outside Paris, the 29-year-old Rita Safi said her sister would still be alive had the promised help been forthcoming
Macron asks Netanyahu for ‘lasting ceasefire’ in Gaza
Macron told the Israeli premier of his "deepest concern" about civilian deaths and the humanitarian emergency in Gaza. He also..."France will work in the coming days in cooperation with Jordan to carry out humanitarian operations in Gaza," the French presidency added in a statement
Netanyahu's office said the PM thanked Macron for "France's involvement in defending freedom of navigation and its willingness to help restore security along Israel's border."
GDP of new expanded BRICS to exceed that of G7 countries: Russia
Moscow, Russia - The aggregate GDP of the BRICS countries after the accession of its new members in 2024 will...The total GDP of the BRICS in the new line-up will already significantly exceed that of the G7, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said
Lavrov noted that the share of Global South and Global East countries in the overall world economy is growing
Gaza death toll tops 21,000 as Israel says war to last ‘many more months’
Israel again pounded Gaza with air strikes and shelling after its military chief warned the war raging with Hamas since...Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, in an interview on Egyptian television, charged that the Gaza war "goes beyond a catastrophe and a genocide".
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Israel that it or its allied groups would take "direct" action to avenge the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi.
Erdogan says no difference between Netanyahu and Hitler
"He (Netanyahu) is richer than Hitler. All kind of support comes from the West and the United States," Erdogan added....He has branded Israel a "terrorist state", Netanyahu "the butcher of Gaza" while calling Hamas "a liberation group".
"There is no difference between the actions of Netanyahu and Hitler," he said during a ceremony in the capital in Ankara.
UAE’s budget carrier Air Arabia to launch daily flights to Kabul
Last month flydubai, another low-cost Emirati airline, became the first international carrier to resume flights to Afghanistan since the chaotic...Last month flydubai, another low-cost Emirati airline, became the first international carrier to resume flights to Afghanistan
Last year, GAAC signed a contract to manage Afghanistan's air traffic, an agreement that was expected to bring back international airlines
120 kilos of cocaine wash up on Australian beaches over Christmas
Sydney, Australia-- Australian police said Wednesday they were scouring beaches after mysterious packages believed to contain more than 120 kilograms (260...A first batch of 39 barnacle-encrusted, one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine was discovered on Friday near Magenta Beach, north of Sydney
Since then, another 85 packages of the same size had been spotted along about 80 kilometers (50 miles) of the New South Wales coastline, state police said
Israeli airstrike on Lebanon border town kills Hizbollah fighter, 2 kin
Lebanon-Israel border has witnessed increasing hostilities amid the Israel-Hamas conflict since October 7, escalating exchanges involve the Israeli army and...Lebanon's National News Agency identified the dead as Ali Bazzi (Hezbollah fighter), his brother Ibrahim and his wife Shourouk Hammoud
A relative of the deceased told AFP that Ibrahim Bazzi was an Australian citizen who had flown in for a visit about a week ago
