HAIFA, Israel - A ship evacuating US nationals from Israel left for Cyprus from the Israeli port of Haifa Monday, an AFP correspondent reported, as war raged between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. With Israel now moving towards a ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave, the...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he would be heading to the Middle East on Tuesday to try to help negotiate aid access to the Gaza Strip. Griffiths said he was hoping to hear some "good news" later Monday on aid access into the blockaded and besieged...
LONDON, United Kingdom -A UK court on Monday began hearing a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over a salacious dossier compiled by a former British MI6 agent that contained unproven allegations against the US ex-president. Trump, 77, is suing Christopher Steele and the company he founded, over...
DOHA, Qatar -- Iran on Sunday warned that any Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip could expand the scope of the conflict elsewhere in the Middle East. Israeli troops manuever a tank near kibbutz Nahal Oz on the border with the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023. More than one million people have...
This combination photograph created on October 12, 2023 shows (L) a file photograph taken on October 24, 2022 of Israel's former defence minister Benny Gantz in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, and (R) a file photograph taken on October 12, 2023 of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Israel's order to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip has triggered "mass displacement" towards the south of the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said Sunday. An Israeli armoured vehicles advance towards the border with the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023, amid the ongoing...
TEHRAN, Iran -- One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian forces have made gains in their Ukraine offensive, President Vladimir Putin said Sunday, including in Avdiivka, a symbolic industrial hub where fighting has been fierce. "Our troops are improving their position in almost all of this area, which is quite vast," he said in...
JERUSALEM, Undefined -- The Israeli military said Sunday it had confirmed 126 people held as hostages by Hamas since the Palestinian militant group staged their deadly attack eight days earlier. Authorities had initially estimated about 150 Israeli and foreign captives after Hamas launched its...
French Education and Youth Minister Gabriel Attal (L) stands beside flowers layed in front of the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France on October 14, 2023, the day after a teacher was killed and two other people severely wounded in a knife attack. (DENIS CHARLET/AFP) ARRAS - France...
BEIJING, China - Chinese envoy Zhai Jun will visit the Middle East next week to push for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and promote peace talks, state broadcaster CCTV reported Sunday. Zhai "will visit the Middle East next week to coordinate with various parties for a ceasefire, to...
Protesters let off fireworks in Trafalgar Square after a 'March For Palestine', part of a pro-Palestinian national demonstration, in London on October 14, 2023, organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum...
