Lebanese militant group Hezbollah meanwhile vowed to escalate fighting against Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises to press on with Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon dashed hopes on Friday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might help end more than a year of escalating conflict in the Middle East. Lebanese militant group […]
Read MoreSinwar’s death, which follows Israeli assassinations of other Hamas leaders and commanders, will deal a huge blow to the Islamist group which has faced relentless air strikes since it attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, architect of the group’s cross-border raids in 2023 that became the deadliest day in Israel’s history, […]
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden is expected to use Sinwar’s killing to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the war in Gaza. But the Israeli leader may prefer to wait out the end of Biden’s term and take his chances with the next president. The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind […]
Read MoreOfficials express confidence the economy can achieve the government’s full-year growth target of around 5%. China’s economy grew at the slowest pace since early 2023 in the third quarter, and though consumption and factory output figures beat forecasts last month a tumbling property sector remains a major challenge for Beijing as it races to revitalise […]
Read MoreReuters interviewed about two dozen people, who described how Muslims in the Indian capital have been congregating in enclaves away from the nation’s Hindu majority, seeking safety in numbers following the deadly 2020 riot and an increase in anti-Muslim hate speech. In February 2020, Nasreen and her husband Tofik were living in Shiv Vihar, an […]
Read MoreIndia is buying 31 sophisticated armed drones from the US. Drones are capable of operating in high mountain areas. Since 2018, the talks to buy these drones were going on. The agreement was signed between the two countries in Delhi on Tuesday. India’s Ministry of Defense said that under the agreement, New Delhi will buy […]
Read MoreAt least 16 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a municipal building in southern Lebanon. Among them is a mayor. More than 50 people were reportedly injured in the attack. The attack was carried out in the Nabatieh region of the country on Wednesday. Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) confirmed this information […]
Read MoreMore than 260 Afghan migrants have allegedly been killed in a spate of gunfire along the Iranian border. According to media reports on Thursday, the country’s border guards fired indiscriminately and killed the migrants. A group of around 300 migrants were trying to cross the Kalgan-Saravan border between Afghanistan and Iran on Sunday evening, The […]
Read MoreTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed fear that Israel’s Netanyahu government may target Turkey. “The Israeli administration, which operates on the deception of the ‘promised land’, will set its sights on our homeland after Palestine and Lebanon,” Erdogan said, warning that Netanyahu’s administration could target Turkey in the future. Under such circumstances, Erdogan called […]
Read MoreGibran Rakabuming Raka, then 27, had spent much of his life outside the limelight and “didn’t agree with his father’s decision to enter politics,” said Andi Widjajanto, a former top adviser to Widodo. Gibran only showed up after his paternal grandmother twisted his arm. When Indonesian President Joko Widodo was first inaugurated in 2014, his […]
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