Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a major package of air defenses for Ukraine as doubts over his political survival clouded the start of a NATO summit in Washington. Leaders from the 32-nation military alliance were looking to put on a show of resolve against Russia during three days of […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed at least 29 people in a strike at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza on Tuesday, a hospital source in Khan Yunis said. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Hamas’ Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh said he had warned mediators that the “catastrophic consequences...
MADRID (AA) – Spain’s left-wing opposition Podemos party has accused the government of hypocrisy regarding arms sales to Israel. Deliberating on a report by the Delas Center for Peace Studies that examined arms exports to Israel in 2022-23, the party’s leader Ione Belarra argued that arms exports to Israel from Spain since October ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has threatened war with Hezbollah if the resistance group did not withdraw beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon. “[Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah, if you don’t stop the threats and violence and withdraw to the Litani River, you will be considered the destroyer of Lebanon,” s...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan and Saudi Arabia have held discussions on the resumption of talks to end the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council said in a statement that its chairman Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan held talks with Saudi Deputy Fore...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has said that it jointly attacked with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance group a “vital target” in the Israeli southern city of Eilat. In a statement, the Houthi group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the attack was carried out with a number of combat drones, and claimed to [&...
Sydney, Australia — AFP Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese has appointed a special envoy to tackle anti-Semitism, promising to appoint an envoy on Islamophobia too. As in many countries, Palestine supporters in Australia have held street rallies and university protests against Israel’s brutally genocidal war on the b...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel killed at least 16 Palestinians and wounded dozens others in a series of overnight strikes and shelling across the Gaza Strip. A local medical source told Anadolu that seven people were killed in Israeli shelling on their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Six others from the Mhanna […]
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Monday it did not expect policy changes from Iran after voters elected reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, and downplayed chances to resume dialogue. “We have no expectation that this election will lead to a fundamental change in Iran’s direction or its policies,”...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The University of Melbourne is being investigated for violating privacy laws by using surveillance to identify students participating in a sit-in protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to the local media. Twenty-one student protesters at the university were previously served with “general mi...