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Middle East and Africa

Prabowo asks Trump for meeting with son Eric in 'hot mic' moment

Trump and Prabowo, who were also seen on video footage, appeared to be unaware that a live microphone was recording their conversation.

10 hours ago
Middle East and Africa

Trump takes victory lap in Israel

The 79-year-old hailed a "historic dawn" for the Middle East and declared the end of a "painful nightmare" with the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal he helped broker. ...

12 hours ago
Middle East and Africa

Trump hails 'tremendous day for Middle East' as leaders sign Gaza declaration

As part of Trump's plan to end the Gaza war, Hamas on Monday freed the last 20 surviving hostages it held after two years of captivity in Gaza. In exchange, Israel released 1,968 mostly Palestinian prisoners held in its jails. ...

15 hours ago

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Middle East and Africa

Tunisia says Gaza aid flotilla targeted by 'premeditated attack'

Organizers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists said late Tuesday that another of their boats had been struck in a suspected drone attack off Tunisia's coast, the second in 24 hours.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Trump issues rare rebuke to Netanyahu over Qatar strikes

Trump said he was not notified in advance of the Israeli attack on the Gulf state, a crucial broker in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas on ending the Gaza war and securing the release of hostages held by Palestinian militants.

1 month ago
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Abrahamic leaders call for Gaza ceasefire, aid access

A forum of leaders from all Abrahamic faiths has called for an end to all violence as well as the delivery of humanitarian aid to war-torn Gaza that has claimed the lives of at least tens of thousands of people.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Trump issues 'last warning' to Hamas over hostages

In a statement released shortly after, Hamas said it was ready to "immediately sit at the negotiating table" following what it described as "some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement."

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel vows to inflict biblical plagues on Huthis

"The Huthis are firing missiles at Israel again. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn -- we will complete all 10 plagues," Israel Katz posted on X.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Belgium to recognize Palestinian state at UN General Assembly

Belgium will recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said on Tuesday, adding to international pressure on Israel after similar moves by Australia, Britain, Canada and France.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Huthis vow to intensify attacks on Israel after PM killed

An attack on Thursday killed the Huthis' prime minister, Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser Al-Rahawi, and other officials, the Iran-backed group has said.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Evacuation of Gaza City would be unsafe and unfeasible: Red Cross chief

An evacuation would provoke a massive population displacement that no other area in the Gaza Strip is equipped to absorb, amid severe shortages of food, shelter, and medical supplies, Spoljaric said.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel army says Gaza City now 'a dangerous combat zone'

The UN estimates that nearly a million people currently live in Gaza governorate, which includes Gaza City and its surroundings in the north of the territory.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Trump holds Gaza policy meeting with Tony Blair and Jared Kushner

Trump, top White House officials, Blair and Kushner discussed the hostage crisis, plans to escalate food aid deliveries, post-war plans and more, the official told Reuters.

1 month ago
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Indonesia presses Islamic nations to stop Israel’s expansionist agenda

Indonesia has called on Islamic nations to unite and “use all their power and available resources” to stop Israel from fully occupying the Gaza Strip and entrenching itself further in the West Bank, during an emergency Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

Gaza's civil defense agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing regret over the "tragic mishap".

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Norway wealth fund divests from Caterpillar over Gaza 'rights violations'

Fuelled by Norway's vast energy revenues, the fund is the world's biggest, with a value of nearly $2 trillion and investments in more than 8,600 companies across the globe.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israeli strikes in Yemen's capital kill six, Huthis say

The Huthi-run Saba news agency reported six people killed and 86 wounded in the Israeli raid, with more than 20 in critical condition, citing the health ministry.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel pounds Gaza City suburbs, vows to press on with offensive

Israeli planes and tanks pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying buildings and homes, residents said, as Israeli leaders vowed to press on with a planned offensive on the city.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Palestinians despair after UN declares famine in Gaza

Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

UN declares famine in Gaza, first ever in Middle East

UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said the famine was entirely preventable, saying food could not get through to the Palestinian territory "because of systematic obstruction by Israel".

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Netanyahu escalates attack on Australia's Albanese

Diplomatic ties between Australia and Israel have soured since Albanese's centre-left Labor government last week announced it would conditionally recognize Palestinian statehood, following similar moves by France, Britain and Canada. 

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa premium

Indonesia makes second aid airdrop over Gaza

An Indonesian Military (TNI) humanitarian mission dropped 10 tonnes of aid of food and other basic necessities over Gaza on Aug. 19, marking the second airdrop of humanitarian support in the war-torn enclave.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel to call up 50,000 reservists before Gaza City offensive

The call-up notices could be sent in the coming days, with reservists to report for duty in September, the military official said.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel-France row flares over Macron's move to recognize Palestinian state

A row between Israel and France over Paris's plan to recognize a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fomenting "antisemitism".

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Netanyahu says 'weak' Australian PM abandoned Jewish community

Netanyahu's comment followed Israel's revocation of the visas of Australian diplomats to the Palestinian Authority on Monday, after a decision by Canberra to recognise a Palestinian state and cancel the visa of an Israeli lawmaker.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan

Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the United States, have struggled to secure a lasting truce in the conflict, which has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan: Hamas official

Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior member from the group said Monday, after a fresh diplomatic push to end more than 22 months of war.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Iranians struggle with GPS disruption after Israel war

"For weeks I have been unable to work," said Fooladi, who uses Iran's homegrown ride-hailing app Snapp to find customers. "Most of the time was wasted wandering around aimlessly," the 35-year-old Iranian driver added. 

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Mass rally in Tel Aviv calls for end to Gaza war, hostage deal

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Sunday evening in Tel Aviv to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

US suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts

Loomer's target was the US-based charity HEAL Palestine, which said last week it had helped 11 critically wounded Gazan children, as well as their caregivers and siblings, arrive safely in the US for medical treatment.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israeli military prepares to relocate residents to southern Gaza, spokesperson says

Gaza residents will be provided with tents and other shelter equipment starting from Sunday ahead of relocating them from combat zones to the south of the enclave "to ensure their safety," the Israeli military said on Saturday.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

At least 1,760 Gazans killed while seeking aid since late May: UN

The Israeli military said its troops were working to "dismantle Hamas military capabilities", adding its forces were taking precautions "to mitigate civilian harm".

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say

The plan, if carried further, would envisage people moving from an enclave shattered by almost two years of war with Israel to a nation in the heart of Africa riven by years of political and ethnically-driven violence.

1 month ago

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