Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior commander from the Iran-backed group to be killed by Israel since a November...
- The new strikes came the morning after one of the deadliest days in the Gaza Strip since the truce began...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories -- Truckloads of food reached hungry Gazans on Monday after Israel promised to open secure aid...Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza on March 2 after talks to extend a six-week ceasefire broke down. Nothing was allowed into the territory until late May.
Jordan and UAE have begun air-dropping aid packages by parachute over Gaza, while Egypt has sent trucks through its Rafah border crossing to an Israeli post just inside Gaza.
- Rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel have been frequent critics of Israeli government policies, but the language...
"Nothing prepares you for the realization that you are part of a society committing genocide. This is a deeply painful moment for us," B'Tselem executive director Yuli Novak said.
The reports from B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel argue that the war's objectives go further.
- Syrian autorities led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa -- dissolved the former longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad's rubber-stamp legislature and adopted a...
In June, a presidential decree established a 10-member committee to supervise the formation of local electoral bodies to select a new batch of lawmakers
State news agency SANA reported on Sunday that committee head Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad had met with Sharaa to discuss the process
- Ever since the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, the United Nations has been inextricably linked...
In November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 dividing Palestine - which was then under British mandate - into Jewish and Arab states
Israel declared independence in May 1948, triggering the Arab-Israeli war which was won convincingly by Israel the following year
- UN's World Food Programme said a third of the population of Gaza had not eaten for days, and 470,000 people...
Since Israel imposed a total blockade on aid entering Gaza, the situation inside the territory has deteriorated sharply. More than 100 NGOs warned this week of "mass starvation".
Humanitarian officials are deeply skeptical airdrops can deliver enough food safely to tackle the hunger crisis.
- Shanghai, China -- Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at Shanghai's World...
The Chinese government has poured support into robotics, an area in which some experts think China might already have the upper hand over the United States.
Tech giant Baidu on Saturday announced a new generation of technology for its "digital humans" -- AI agents modelled on real people.
Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza on March 2 after ceasefire talks broke down. In late May, it began...There was no immediate official response from the UN or non-governmental aid agencies operating in Gaza.
And privately skeptical humanitarian sources said they were waiting to see the results on the ground of the Israeli announcement.
- Geneva, Switzerland -- The world urgently needs to find a global approach on regulating artificial intelligence, the United Nations' top...
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU), said regulation was key as concerns rise over fast-moving technology.
Bogdan-Martin, the first woman to serve as ITU secretary-general in the organization's nearly 160-year history, also stressed the need to get more women into the digital space.
- Paris, France - France's foreign minister has called the CEO of Spanish airline Vueling to demand an "explanation" after dozens...
During an incident on Wednesday, the Spanish airline said it had asked the adolescents to leave the plane in the Spanish city of Valencia due to their "disruptive behaviour."
But parents condemned what some described as an "antisemitic act", and alleging the teenagers were forced off the plane after one of them had sung a song in Hebrew
- The humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory has gravely deteriorated in recent days, with international NGOs warning of soaring malnutrition...
"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X
An Israeli official told AFP on Friday that aid drops in Gaza would resume soon, adding they would be conducted by the United Arab Emirates and Jordan
