The decision marks one of the most significant ruptures in the producer group's recent history. Long viewed as one of...
Dubai, UAE -- A humanoid robot completed a half-marathon in China in a time faster than the human world record,...
The United States on Monday toughened its terrorist designation of separatist militants in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province who were behind...The State Department listed the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) as a foreign terrorist organization, which makes it a crime in the United States to provide support to the group
Washington had already listed the BLA under the less severe label of specially designated global terrorists, which targets financial resources
- Dozens of Gazans stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to pay their respects...
Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya said a sixth journalist, freelance reporter Mohammed Al-Khaldi, was killed in the strike that targeted the Al Jazeera team.
Mourners including men wearing blue journalists' flak jackets carried their bodies, wrapped in white shrouds with their faces exposed, through narrow alleys to their graves.
Oslo, Norway -- Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said Monday that it was selling its investments in 11...Nicolai Tangen, chief of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the fund, said the decision was taken "in response to extraordinary circumstances".
Norway's wealth fund is the biggest in the world with a value of around $1.9 trillion, with investments spanning the globe.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday a plan to allow more foreign journalists to report inside Gaza with...
Israel has blocked most foreign correspondents from independently accessing the territory since it launched its campaign there
"We have decided and have ordered, directed the military to bring in foreign journalists, more foreign journalists, a lot," Netanyahu said
UN says 'if these plans are implemented, they will likely trigger another calamity in Gaza, reverberating across the region and...The premier has faced regular protests over the course of the war, with many rallies calling for the government to strike a ceasefire and hostage-release deal.
Netanyahu, however, has also come under pressure from the far right to go harder on Hamas, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich slamming the new plan as half-hearted.
- The meeting, which will be attended by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and US special envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack,...
It is a continuation of discussions held between the officials in Amman on July 19 about deadly clashes in the Druze-majority Syrian province of Sweida.
The violence between Druze fighters and Sunni Bedouins in July ultimately drew the intervention of government forces and tribal fighters as well as Israeli forces.
Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces "targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip", the...UEFA posted on X: "Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pele'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times."
Born in Gaza City, Obeid was married and had five children. He played 24 international matches for team Palestine.
- Demonstrators waved signs and held up pictures of hostages still being held in the Palestinian territory as they called on...
A group representing the families of hostages said as many as 100,000 people participated.
Out of 251 hostages captured during Hamas's 2023 attack, 49 are still being held in Gaza, including 27 the military says are dead.
- Russia cautiously welcomed a US-brokered draft deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Saturday, but Moscow's regional ally Iran rejected the...
The two former Soviet republics signed a peace deal in Washington on Friday to end a decades-long conflict, though the fine print and binding nature of the deal remained unclear
The US-brokered agreement includes establishing a transit corridor through Armenia to connect Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan, a longstanding demand of Baku
Iran opposes the Lebanese government's decision to disarm the Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah, a senior adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah..."The Islamic Republic of Iran is certainly opposed to the disarmament of Hezbollah," international affairs adviser Ali Akbar Velayati said
The Lebanese cabinet on Tuesday authorised the army to draw up a plan to establish the state's exclusive control over weapons
