Egypt agrees to send aid trucks through Israeli crossing to Gaza but impact is unclear
Tel Aviv: Egypt said Friday it has agreed to send United Nations humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it was unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting raged in the southern city of Rafah amid Israel’s escalating offensive there. Meanwhile, the bodies of three more hostages […]
UN court order demanding Israel to halt Gaza offensive further isolates US position
Washington: A ruling by the top United Nations court ordering Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has deepened its disconnect with the United States over an operation that faces mounting international condemnation but that American officials describe, at least for now, as limited and targeted. The decision Friday […]
4 hurt, 1 arrested after clashes between Iranian government supporters and opponents in London
London: British police say four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi. The Metropolitan Police force said officers were called Friday evening to “reports of disorder” at a venue in the west London area of […]
Top UN court orders Israel to halt military operation in Rafah; Israel is unlikely to comply
The Hague: The top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. While Israel is unlikely to comply with any such order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country. Criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza has […]
UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state
Geneva: The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it. Spokesperson Liz Throssell of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights […]
Bodies of 3 more hostages are recovered from Gaza by the Israeli army
Tel Aviv (Israel): The bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 were recovered overnight from Gaza, Israel’s army said on Friday. The bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez were found and their families have been notified. The army said they were killed on the day of the attack at the […]
12 Palestinians killed and 25 wounded in Israel’s 2-day West Bank operation
Jerusalem: The Israeli military said Thursday it has completed a two-day operation in the occupied West Bank that the Palestinian Health Ministry says killed 12 Palestinians and wounded 25. Rippling tensions from the Israel-Hamas war were also felt in the Red Sea, where a missile splashed down in the water near the crucial Bab el-Mandeb […]
Missile splashes into the Red Sea, causing no damage in latest suspected Yemen Houthi rebel attack
Dubai: A missile splashed down in the waters of the Red Sea on Thursday, but caused no damage to a passing commercial vessel in an attack likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said. The Houthis did not immediately claim the attack, though it can take hours or even days for them to acknowledge […]
Czech Constitutional Court rejects Indian national Nikhil Gupta’s petition against US extradition in Pannun case
London: The Czech Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by Indian national Nikhil Gupta, detained in a prison in Prague, against his extradition to the US to face murder-for-hire charges in an alleged assassination attempt on a Khalistani extremist on American soil. Gupta, 52, was charged by US federal prosecutors in an indictment unsealed in […]
UN will vote on commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica genocide annually — which Serbs vehemently oppose
United Nations: The UN is scheduled to vote on Thursday on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, a prospect that has sparked vehement opposition from Serbs who fear it will brand them all as “genocidal” supporters of the mass killing. The General Assembly […]
