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US President Joe Biden, seeking to push a Gaza ceasefire, on Monday warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against invading Rafah as Israel defiantly issued evacuation orders and carried out intense air strikes on the crowded Gaza city. The United States said it was reviewing a response from Hamas, which said it has accepted a deal to halt seven months of ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel. Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of “incitement” and said the cabinet decision had been unanimous. Al Jazeera condemned the move as “criminal”. Foreign journalists are banned from entering Gaza and Al Jazeera staff there have been some of the only reporters on ...

A senior Hamas official on Saturday said the group would not accept a truce that did not completely end the Gaza war, accusing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of “personally hindering” a deal. Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators met a Hamas delegation in Cairo on Saturday in the latest bid to halt the devastating almost seven-month-old war that has triggered worldwide ...

The US said on Thursday that it was “very close” to reaching an agreement on the bilateral piece of a potential package deal with Saudi Arabia, which would need to include normalization with Israel. reports Al Arabiya English. “The Secretary did meet with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia this week when he was in Riyadh… and we are very ...

At least 20 people, including 17 men and three women, were killed when a bus travelling from Rawalpindi to Hunza fell into a ditch early Friday morning near Gunar Farm in the Diamer area of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. Rescue officials said the accident has also left at least 22 people injured. According to reports from the region, the passenger bus ...

The death toll from the collapse of an expressway section in China’s Guangdong province that caused vehicles to tumble down a slope has risen to 48, with rescue work hampered by mudslides, state media reported on Thursday. The road collapsed in the wee hours of Wednesday, the first day of the five-day May Day holiday break as millions in the ...

Nearly 100 schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region sent students home early after receiving a bomb threat via email. Police officials are on the site conducting thorough search operations, but have not found anything suspicious yet. “We are taking all appropriate measures at the schools which have received bomb threats. I request parents not to panic, as nothing ...

The Islamic State group has claimed a gun attack on a minority Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan that killed six people on Monday. Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said Tuesday morning that “an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque” in Herat province’s Guzara district at around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) the previous night, AFP reports. ...

At least 25 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday. Local official Olga Bobadilla told RPP radio the incident late Sunday happened on a potholed dirt road in the Andean region of Cajamarca, “and the bus fell into an abyss” ...

Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, resigned on Monday rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change. Yousaf, whose Scottish National Party has been weakened by a campaign finance scandal and divisions over transgender rights, stepped down after failing to strike a deal with ...