International

Israel will adopt the proposal by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover periods, the prime minister’s office said early on Sunday, hours after the first phase of the previously agreed ceasefire was set to expire, reports Arab News. On the first day of Witkoff’s proposal, half of the ...

The holy month of Ramadan will begin in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, as the crescent moon has been sighted. The Saudi Moon Sighting Committee confirmed the sighting on Friday evening, marking the start of the ninth month of the Islamic Hijri calendar. According to a report by Arab News, the moon was sighted from various observation centers, including Sudair and ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, is set to tackle the challenging task of forming a new coalition government following his electoral victory. With his party securing over 28% of the vote, Merz defeated Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) also saw significant success with more than 20%. ...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAID personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating some 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to a notice sent to agency workers reviewed by Reuters. Just before midnight on Sunday US Eastern Time, all United States Agency for International Development ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov decided to appoint teams to negotiate ending Ukraine war after meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday. The US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed the development, reports BBC. Tammy Bruce said that Rubio and Lavrov agreed to appoint respective high-level teams to begin working on a path to ending ...

At least 18 people were killed in a stampede at a rail station in New Delhi in India, according to an official report on Sunday. The incident occurred late Saturday as thousands of people were waiting to board trains heading to the Maha Kumbh Hindu festival in northern India. The bodies of the victims were taken to the Lok Nayak ...

The Trump White House has announced on Friday that The Associated Press (AP) is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force one indefinitely, reports The Guardian. The AP, one of the world’s biggest news outlets, was singled out by the White House earlier this week over three words: “Gulf of Mexico.” According to report, AP journalists are banned from ...

US President Donald Trump has ruled out any involvement of the United States in Bangladesh’s ongoing issues. “I’ll leave Bangladesh to PM Modi (Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi),” he said. He made the remarks while responding to a question at a joint press conference with PM Modi following a bilateral meeting in Washington. The two leaders primarily discussed trade and ...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II faces a tense meeting with Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday as he leads opposition from Arab nations to the US president’s controversial Gaza takeover plan. The talks come a day after Trump said he could “conceivably” halt billions of dollars in US aid to both Jordan and Egypt if they refuse to take in ...

The Trump administration plans to reduce the number of staff at the US government’s giant humanitarian agency USAID to fewer than 300 people from more than 10,000, the New York Times reported on Thursday, reports AFP. The staff who remain include employees who specialize in health and humanitarian assistance, the Times said, citing three people with knowledge of the plans ...