Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Bangladesh's defense force said it has deployed warships and patrol aircraft as part of a special surveillance...
- Trump's peace proposal, backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls for a halt to hostilities in the nearly two-year...
The raid, Israel's biggest military operation in years in the West Bank, employed hundreds of troops as well as drone...The Israeli military launched the raid on the Jenin refugee camp early on Monday under the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government
Israeli military said its forces had dismantled six explosives manufacturing facilities and three operational situation rooms in Jenin, and confiscated large quantities of weapons
- "The recent operation in the occupied West Bank and car ramming attack in Tel Aviv worryingly underscore an all too...
Turk said some of the methods and weapons used in the Jenin raid "are more generally associated with the conduct of hostilities in armed conflict, rather than law enforcement"
Christian Lindmeier, spokesman for the UN's WHO, said that the destruction of infrastructure, including roads in Jenin, was restricting access for medical teams
Baghdad, Iraq-- Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid has emphasized the need for reinforcing partnership with Iran in the fields of...Iraq's president highlighted the importance of forging closer ties with Iran in a meeting with an Iranian delegation visiting Baghdad
He applauded Iran for the restoration of ties with countries in the Middle East and the resumption of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia
- Crude is the main revenue source for Libya, which has been torn by more than a decade of stop-start conflict,...
Khalifa Haftar, military head of Libyan eastern command, said "a deadline at the end of August for this committee to complete its mission".
Haftar said a committee must be established "to put in place financial arrangements with a view to fair management of public funds" and oil revenues
At a meeting of more than 300 mayors, whose municipalities suffered damages, Macron said, "Is it a permanent return to..."I came to hear the president give us a vision, set a course. I didn't come for a group therapy session," complained Zartoshte Bakhtiari, mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne east of Paris.
"It pays to kill a young Arab," tweeted Manon Aubry, a European Parliament deputy, reacting to online collection of $1.5m for the policeman who shot dead Nahel M.
- Civilians and civilian objects must be respected and protected. The Israeli security forces must in particular ensure that the population...
The spiral of violence seen in the first six months of 2023 has led to heightened tensions and a worrying deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the West Bank.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said the Israeli forces in the West Bank needed to abide by international human rights standards on the use of force.
- Egypt and Turkey said they had appointed ambassadors to each others' countries for the first time in a decade, in...
Cairo and Ankara both issued statements announcing "the upgrading of diplomatic relations between them to the level of ambassadors".
Relations were severed a decade ago when Sisi, then Egypt's defense minister, ousted the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, an ally of Turkey.
- A Quran was burnt outside the Swedish capital's main mosque on Wednesday, triggering a diplomatic backlash across the Muslim world....
The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, which is meeting in session until July 14, will change its agenda to stage an urgent debate, following a request from Pakistan.
There are 47 members of the Human Rights Council. The UN's top rights body is currently in the second of its three regular sessions per year.
The UN hopes to lay out a clear blueprint on the way forward for handling AI, as development of the...The summit wants to identify ways of using AI to advance the UN's lagging sustainable development goals
This summit can help ensure that AI charts the course that benefits humanity, UN chief Antonio Guterres said
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization -- which on Tuesday welcomed Iran as its ninth member -- encompasses a vast stretch of...During the virtual meeting, Xi "called for efforts to safeguard regional peace and ensure common security", state news agency Xinhua said.
Tehran's membership will support "collective security... expanding ties and communications (and) strengthening unity", Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said.
