Activists marching to Gaza say were stopped in Libya, Egypt
Pro-Palestinian activists seeking to march to Gaza with the stated aim of breaking Israel's blockade on the territory were stopped...Geostrategy
Nuclear states spent $100 billion on atomic arsenals in 2024, say ICAN
ICAN said Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the United States together spent nearly $10 billion...Geostrategy
Istanbul Bar Association board dismissed over ‘terror propaganda’
The Istanbul Bar Association's executive board was dismissed Friday on grounds of "terrorist propaganda" and "publicly spreading false information", according...The Turkish military insists it never targets civilians but only terror groups
The bar association issued a statement saying "targeting members of the press in conflict zones
Israel defence minister threatens to annex parts of Gaza unless Hamas frees the remaining Israeli hostages
The warning came as Israel stepped up the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm that had...Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed 11 people on Friday -- three in pre-dawn strikes and eight more during the daytime
Should Hamas not comply, Katz also threatened to expand buffer zones around Gaza to protect Israeli civilian population areas
UN warns of ‘massive trauma’ for Gaza’s children amid renewed fighting
Sam Rose, the senior deputy field director in Gaza for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, highlighted the psychological...James Elder, a spokesman for the UN children's agency UNICEF, said traumatized children usually only start to process their trauma when they begin returning to normalcy.
Humanitarians warned the situation has been made worse by Israel's decision earlier this month to cut off aid and electricity to Gaza over the deadlock in negotiations.
Macron announces new Ukraine ‘coalition’ summit in Paris on March 27
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the leaders of a coalition of Ukraine backers would meet again in Paris...Macron, together with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has been leading efforts to form a coalition in support of Ukraine
Starmer on Thursday hosted talks with around 30 senior military planners from nations interested in the coalition
Israel deepens Gaza offensive, shuts key routes, and orders evacuations amid heavy civilian casualties
US President Donald Trump "fully supports" Israel's renewed Gaza operations, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when asked...The offensive has drawn widespread condemnation and shattered a relative calm in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory where a ceasefire began on January 19
Israel earlier said it had closed off the territory's main north-south route as part of expanding ground operations that resumed on Wednesday
Russia to hold talks with US in Riyadh Monday: Kremlin
Donald Trump spoke to both Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky this week and the US is also due..."From the Russian side, they will be attended by Grigory Karasin, chairman of the Senate's committee on international affairs, and Sergei Beseda, advisor to the head of FSB.
Ushakov said he had confirmed this after talks with US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Both agreed to send "expert groups" for the talks, he added.
Israel announces ground operations, issues ‘last warning’ to Gazans to remove Hamas from power
Israeli forces this week conducted the deadliest wave of air strikes since the start of a truce in January, killing...The military said it had "begun targeted ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip to expand the security perimeter
Families with young children fled northern Gaza for areas further south, fearing for their lives after Israel urged civilians to leave
Putin has upper hand in Trump talks on elusive Ukraine peace: analysts
Paris, France - Vladimir Putin scored a coup by discussing with Donald Trump in highly anticipated phone talks everything from improving...During the call on Tuesday, Putin refused a full ceasefire agreement proposed by Washington
The Kremlin said Trump had also backed Putin's proposal to hold ice hockey matches between American and Russian players
Deepfakes can clone your voice in 5 seconds, tech firms mount defense
Las Vegas, United States -- Tech firms are fighting the scourge of deepfakes, those deceptively realistic voices or videos used...Hong Kong police recently revealed that a multinational firm employee was tricked into wiring $26m to crooks who staged a videoconference with AI avatars of his colleagues.
A recent study by identification start-up iBoom found that a scant tenth of one percent of Americans and Britons were able to correctly tell when a picture or video was a deepfake.
Netanyahu says Gaza strikes ‘only the beginning’, future negotiations ‘only under fire’
Hamas has not responded militarily so far, and in a statement urged friendly countries to "pressure" the United States to...The strikes, by far the largest since a truce took effect in January, killed more than 400 people across the Gaza Strip
Netanyahu said in a video statement on Tuesday evening "Hamas has already felt the strength of our arm in the past 24 hours
