International

The United Nations chief said Friday that Palestinians were enduring “the cruelest phase” of the war in Gaza, where more than a dozen food trucks were looted following the partial easing of a lengthy Israeli blockade, reports AFP. Aid was just beginning to trickle back into the war-torn territory after Israel announced it would allow limited shipments to resume as ...

US President Donald Trump will sign executive orders as soon as Friday that aim to jumpstart the nuclear energy industry by easing the regulatory process on approvals for new reactors and strengthening fuel supply chains, four sources familiar said, reports Reuters. Facing the first rise in power demand in two decades from the boom in artificial intelligence, Trump declared an ...

Liang Jianjun, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs at China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to strengthening good neighbourly ties, calling them essential for regional peace and China’s national development. “A good neighbour means a peaceful and secure home,” Liang said during a press conference held at the “Lin Jia 7 Salon” at the ...

Two Israeli embassy staff were killed in a shooting outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night, according to officials and media reports. A man and a woman were shot and killed in the area of 3rd and F streets in Northwest which is near the museum, an FBI field office and the US ...

A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, returned from the mountain Tuesday and said he is already planning his next attempt. Kenton Cool from southwest England, reached the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit Sunday before flying on a helicopter with his ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted Tuesday that President Donald Trump had offered no concessions to Russia, as he rejected criticism over the administration’s Ukraine policy at a Senate hearing. “He hasn’t gotten a single concession,” Rubio said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports AFP. Rubio was responding to Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign ...

The UK, France and Canada have warned Israel they will take “concrete actions” if it continues an “egregious” expansion of military operations in Gaza. Sir Keir Starmer joined the French and Canadian leaders to call on the Israeli government to “stop its military operations” and “immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza”. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying ...

Pope Leo XIV received US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Vatican on Monday, a day after his inauguration mass as the new head of the Catholic Church. Photos released by the Vatican showed the Chicago-born pontiff warmly greeting Vance and Rubio. The meeting marked a notable moment in the early days of Leo ...

At least 17 people were killed and many others injured on Sunday after a massive fire broke out in a building in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, officials said. The fire broke out in the morning inside a residential building in Gulzar House near the iconic Charminar area of the city. “The fire broke out around 6:00 a.m., and ...

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center, reports AFP. Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted in February of attempted murder and assault for the stabbing, which left Rushdie blind in one eye. Matar received the maximum sentence of ...