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 […]
Norway, Ireland and Spain say they are recognizing a Palestinian state, deepening Israel’s isolation
Tel Aviv (Israel): Norway, Ireland and Spain said on Wednesday they are recognizing a Palestinian state, in a historic but largely symbolic move that deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. The announcements came as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest […]
Iran’s supreme leader prays for late president and others killed in helicopter crash
Dubai: Iran’s supreme leader prayed Wednesday over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials who were killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Later, hundreds of thousands of people followed a procession honouring the dead down Tehran’s main boulevard. Iran’s Shiite theocracy views mass demonstrations as crucial evidence of […]
Four Indians accused of killing Khalistan separatist Nijjar appear before Canadian court
Ottawa: Four Indian nationals accused of killing Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in Surrey were ordered by a Canadian court to have no contact with several people in the community, as they made their first joint appearance before it in the case that has severely strained ties between India and Canada. Three of […]
