International

19-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing at least 78 Palestinians in pre-dawn attacks, including 36 in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi. The intensified attacks come as Israel mobilizes for a new ground assault on Gaza and resumes ceasefire talks with Hamas in Qatar. Arab leaders in …

19-05-2025 DAMASCUS/ ALEPPO: Syrian security forces have killed three ISIL (ISIS) fighters and arrested four others in Aleppo, authorities said, the first time the interim government has announced such an operation against the group in Syria’s second city. The raids, launched by the General Security Department in coordination with the …

19-05-2025 BAGHDAD: Arab leaders have urged the international community to fund their plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip after United States President Donald Trump reiterated a proposal to take over the Palestinian territory. An Arab League summit held on Saturday in Baghdad said in its final statement that it urged …

18-05-2025 ABUJA/ MAIDUGURI: Gunmen killed dozens people in four separate attacks in central Nigeria’s Benue state, a Red Cross official said Sunday, the latest flare-up of unrest in the region. The attacks happened Saturday night in four villages. Clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farmers over land use are common …

18-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is considering plans to dramatically increase the water it draws from a major river that feeds Pakistani farms downstream, as part of retaliatory action for a deadly April attack on tourists that New Delhi blames on Islamabad, according to four people familiar …

18-05-2025 TRIPOLI: Several ministers with Libya’s internationally recognized government have resigned in support of the protesters calling for Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to step down. The government late on Friday said a police officer was killed in an “attempted assault” on the prime minister’s office as thousands of Libyans …

18-05-2025 NEW ORLEANS, LOS ANGELES: Ten prisoners, several of them facing murder charges, have escaped from a New Orleans jail and may have had help from staff inside the facility, authorities say. The inmates are thought to have fled around midnight, and were discovered missing during a headcount at 08:30 …

18-05-2025 LOUIS: Dozens of people are reported to have died after tornadoes tore through parts of two US states. Officials in Kentucky, said there had been nine deaths while seven people were killed in Missouri, including five in the city of St Louis. The Kentucky tornado struck in Laurel County, …

18-05-2025 GAZA STRIP/ CAIRO: Hamas says its negotiators have opened a new round of talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza, hours after Israel launched a major offensive. Taher al-Nounou, an adviser to the head of Hamas, told media a new round of negotiations had officially begun in Doha …

17-05-2025 BAGHDAD: Israel’s war on Gaza is dominating the talks at the annual summit of the Arab League in Baghdad, alongside other regional crises. In his opening speech at the 34th Arab Summit on Saturday, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said; “this genocide (in Gaza) has reached a level …