Ganzhou, China -- Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of...
- A top Hamas official said Friday that talks in Miami to advance the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire must...
ABU DHABI, UAE - Madrid wants the upcoming 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) here next...The ministerial meeting (MC13) will convene representatives of 164 nations and trading blocs.
MC13 will seek key reforms to the global trading system, including expanding WTO membership .
- Sudan's nine-month-old war has so far largely spared the country's east. But with the frontline inching ever closer, and reports...
In recent months, the RSF's push into Al-Jazira state, southeast of the embattled capital Khartoum, has given it access to roads leading further east
The port city is Sudan's lifeline for crucial aid during the war that, according to the United Nations, has uprooted around 7.6 million people
- The trip comes days after the Democratic incumbent's campaign manager traveled to the city of Dearborn -- home to the...
The White House has made clear that Thursday's trip is purely a campaign visit, and Biden's 2024 team has said that he will meet with members of UAW union in the Detroit area
On Wednesday a group of Dearborn organizations called for ceasefire in Gaza and the city's mayor, Abdullah Hammoud refused to meet with Biden's campaign manager
CENTCOM earlier announced that the USS Carney had shot down an anti-ship ballistic missile fired by the Houthis, and then...A US warship also shot down an anti-ship missile fired by the Houthis
American forces also destroyed a Houthi surface-to-air missile on Wednesday
- Palestinian Territories - International efforts towards a new pause in the devastating Gaza war gathered pace Wednesday, as Israel bombarded...
Hamas was reviewing a proposal for a six-week truce in its war with Israel, a source told AFP, after mediators gathered in Paris
While talks take place, the population of Gaza is starving to death due to constraints imposed on humanitarian aid
- Maritime security firm Ambrey said that a merchant ship had been targeted with a missile in southwest of Aden, Yemen....
The rebels have carried out some 30 attacks on commercial shipping and naval vessels
US forces on Wednesday destroyed a missile belonging to the Houthi rebels
Since the relentless Israeli aerial and ground assault, triggered by Hamas's deadly October 7 attacks inside Israel, the United Nations...UNCTAD said Gaza was in a dire state before the war erupted, with a 17-year blockade and repeated military operations leaving around 80% of the population dependent on aid.
It would take seven decades for the territory to return to just its 2022 GDP level even the reconstruction was started immediately.
- "We urge fellow donor countries to reflect on the wider consequences of cutting their funding to UNRWA," Norwegian Foreign Minister...
Thirteen countries, including major donors such as the United States, Germany, Britain and Sweden, have suspended funding to the UN agency
The funding is suspended over accusations that 12 on its staff members were involved in the October 7 attack by Hamas members against Israel
- Kyiv had accused Moscow of being a "terrorist state" whose support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine was a harbinger...
But ICJ tossed out most of Ukraine's claims, ruling only that Russia was "failing to take measures to investigate facts... regarding persons who allegedly committed an offence".
This case predates Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The ICJ will decide on Friday whether it has jurisdiction to rule in a separate case over that war.
"Container shipping... has declined by almost 30 percent," said Jihad Azour, director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia...The Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 30 attacks on commercial shipping and naval vessels since November 19, the Pentagon said on Tuesday
Houthi attacks have prompted some shipping companies to detour around southern Africa to avoid the Red Sea, a route that carries about 12 percent of global trade
