- Gaza's civil defense agency said more than 100 people were killed, including many children, but both US President Donald Trump...
The Hamas-run territory's civil defense agency said at least 35 children were among the more than 100 killed.
United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said the report of so many dead was appalling and urged all side not to let peace "slip from our grasp".
- Syria has begun the mammoth task of trying to rebuild its shattered economy, after over a decade of war saw...
Earlier this month, the World Bank put a "conservative best estimate" of the cost of rebuilding Syria at $216 billion.
In May, Syria signed a $7 billion energy deal with a consortium of Qatari, Turkish and US companies as it seeks to revive its crippled power sector.
- Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan said Wednesday that negotiations for a lasting truce with Afghanistan had "failed to bring about a...
Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding negotiations in Istanbul aimed at securing peace after the South Asian neighbours' deadliest border clashes in years
The violence, which killed more than 70 people and wounded hundreds, erupted following explosions in Kabul on October 9 that the Taliban authorities blamed on Pakistan
- Trump defended Israel's actions on Wednesday, saying it "should hit back" if Israeli soldiers were killed, but added that "nothing's...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "powerful strikes" on Gaza, after his defence minister accused Hamas of attacking Israeli troops in Gaza
While Israel Katz did not say where the troops were attacked, Hamas said its fighters had "no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah" and reaffirmed its commitment to the US
- Tehran, Iran -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday proposed that Iran and its regional trading partners establish a shared...
Years of international sanctions, largely imposed by the United States over Tehran's nuclear programme, have severely weakened Iran's economy.
"Even a common currency could be adopted in the region to help promote economic development," he told a meeting with Tajik Interior Minister Ramazan Rahimzada.
- San Francisco, United States -- Data from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI suggest that more than a million of the people using its...
estimated that approximately 0.15 percent of users have "conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent."
With OpenAI reporting more than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, this translates to about 1.2 million people.
- Mamdani, a 34-year-old self-described democratic socialist, has developed a plan aimed at luring working-class people and young adults, for whom...
The Democrats -- shut out of power in the White House and both chambers of Congress -- are seen negatively by 63 percent of US voters, according to a July poll in the Wall Street
John Kane, a professor of political science at New York University, said the party needs to reconnect with parts of their traditional base, such as lower-income Americans and young
- "We regard this step as a new symbol of the strategic relations between our two close allies," he said after...
"We regard this step as a new symbol of the strategic relations between our two close allies," he said after signing the agreement with visiting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Turkey has been looking to modernise its air force and has been pushing to acquire 40 European-made fighter jet, which are jointly produced by Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain
- Under the terms of a US-brokered ceasefire, as Israeli forces withdraw after the end of two years of brutal fighting...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would decide for itself where and when to strike its foes and which countries would be allowed to send troops to police the trucehe
"Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves by our own means and we will continue to determine our fate," Netanyahu said. "We do not seek anyone's approval for this."
- New York, United States - An unknown local lawmaker just a few months ago, leftist Zohran Mamdani has burst onto...
Since his surprise victory in the Democratic Party primary in June, New Yorkers have become used to seeing his bearded, smiling face on television
The 34-year-old election frontrunner was born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin and has lived in the United States since he was 7, becoming a naturalized US citizen in 2018





















