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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 ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was to meet with top Turkish and Ukranian officials Friday after landing in Istanbul ahead of the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks in three years, a US official said. Rubio had on Thursday played down hope of progress at the meeting, saying “we don’t have high expectations” but has nonetheless flown in to throw his ...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday a deal was close on Iran’s nuclear programme that would avoid military action, sending oil prices tumbling as he boasted of raising “trillions of dollars” on a Gulf tour. “We’re not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran,” Trump said in Qatar, the second stop of his multi-day Gulf tour. “I think ...

India on Tuesday expelled an official working at the Pakistan High Commission for “indulging in activities not in keeping with his official status” and asked him to leave the country within 24 hours. India also issued a demarche to Pakistani Charge d’ Affaires in New Delhi on the activities of the official. Following India’s action, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...