Category: World

PARIS (WEB DESK) – The United States has said a UN Security Council resolution that ended Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006 could form the basis of a new ceasefire, though it would need to be better enforced. What is resolution 1701, and what problems were there with its enforcement? WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY? […]

JERUSALEM (WEB DESK) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday to seize on the killing of Hamas’s leader to work towards a Gaza ceasefire. Blinken also pressed for more aid to be allowed into the Palestinian territory as concerns rise for tens of thousands of civilians trapped by […]

Israel kept up its bombing of Lebanon Tuesday after a late night strike that killed 18 people near a Beirut hospital, state media reported, as its war on Hezbollah approached the one-month mark. The latest deaths brought the overall toll in Lebanon since September 23 to at least 1,552, according to an AFP tally of […]

BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Sunday that he will no longer travel to Kazan, Russia, for the BRICS summit, following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights. In a statement, the presidential palace said Lula will participate in the BRICS meeting via video conference. The group comprises Brazil, Russia, […]

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with former US President Donald Trump, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated what he has also said publicly: Israel takes into account the issues the US administration raises, but in the end, will make its decisions based on its national interests,” it […]

 Israel has agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will […]

It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul’s Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017. “I thought for a second, ‘where am I?’” said Zakaria, who left the […]

The European Parliament took a shift to the right after a four-day election concluded on Sunday, with more Eurosceptic nationalists and fewer mainstream liberals and Greens. The parliament’s most important role is reviewing and approving new legislation and it generally comes up with amendments on which it and EU governments need to agree before EU […]

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s arch-conservative Brothers of Italy group won the most votes in the European parliamentary election over the weekend, results showed, boosting her standing both at home and abroad. With 96% of the ballots counted, Brothers of Italy won 28.8%of the vote, more than four times what it took in the last EU […]

Myanmar’s Muslim-minority Rohingya community is once again under threat of attacks and displacement as fighting between a powerful ethnic army and the country’s ruling junta escalates in the western state of Rakhine, according to UN and aid agencies. Tens of thousands of Rohingya are estimated to have fled for safety towards neighbouring Bangladesh since mid-May, […]