Israel's military says it has pulled out of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City two weeks after it was raided. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), troops "killed terrorists" and found "numerous weapons and intelligence documents" in the area. The raid

At least "eight people were killed and 23 others wounded" when "a car bomb exploded in the middle of a popular market" in Aleppo province's Azaz said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based Observatory, which has a network of sources inside

The United Kingdom’s Labour party reported a loss of membership by 23,000 over its Gaza policy and environmental messaging, new figures revealed. Official figures showed that memberships fell from 390,000 in January to 366,604 last week, though the party is leading in opinion

When roughly 63 million eligible voters go to the polls to elect mayors in 81 Turkish cities and municipalities on March 31, it will be a historic local election for one person in particular: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has spoken of his "last election" before handing

More than a decade after joining the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria joined — at least partially — the rest of the bloc's members in the visa-free Schengen zone on Sunday. Travelers are now able to move between the two Eastern European countries and the rest of the

Malaysian authorities were on high alert on Saturday after the arrest of an Israeli national who was apprehended with several handguns and rounds of ammunition at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has long shown support for Palestinian statehood and its leaders have been fiercely

One thousand miles east of Gaza, large blocks of aid are being loaded on to a US military transport plane, its crew silhouetted by the morning sun glancing over the desert landscape around Qatar's al-Udeid airbase. They push 80 crates into the plane's cavernous interior, each

At least 42 people have been killed in air strikes in north-west Syria, reports say. Syria's defence ministry said Israeli planes targeted several sites in the Aleppo countryside at 01:45 on Friday (22:45 GMT Thursday). A UK-based monitoring group said Hezbollah militants and

Donald Trump's attorneys pushed two legal challenges before Easter weekend. His camp is appealing against a verdict from a Georgia judge allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on an election subversion case. They also aim to stop the expansion of a gag

The Indian Navy responded to a pirate attack in the Arabian Sea and rescued an Iranian fishing vessel and its crew of 23 Pakistani nationals in an over 12-hour-long anti-piracy operation. "Based on inputs on a potential piracy incident onboard an Iranian Fishing Vessel

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks to take place in Doha and Cairo, his office said Friday, days after the negotiations appeared stalled. Since the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Monday demanding an

At least 71 more Palestinians were killed and 112 others injured over the last 24 hours, as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory's Health Ministry said on Friday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) committed seven massacres against families

In anticipation of the upcoming Hajj season in 2024, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced a wave of employment opportunities aimed at managing the annual pilgrimage influx. With millions of Muslims from around the world expected to journey to Mecca, the Saudi authorities are

A transit accident in South Africa killed 45 people after a bus hit and plunged over the barrier of a bridge into a ravine, where it caught on fire, the nation’s transport department said Thursday. The only survivor was an 8-year-old girl, authorities said. Footage of the scene

An Israeli air strike on the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 36 Syrian soldiers on Friday, according to a war monitor, which added that Hezbollah weapons depots were located in the area. The Israeli attack targeted an area "near rockets depots belonging to Lebanese group

Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters battled in close combat around Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital on Thursday, where the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they attacked Israeli soldiers and tanks with rockets and mortar fire. The Israeli army said it continued to operate

Four people were killed and seven were hurt when a man went on a stabbing rampage Wednesday across multiple locations in a northern Illinois community, authorities said. A 22-year-old man is in police custody and was being questioned, according to Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd. She

The Bulgarian authorities have confirmed that the country’s international airports are fully prepared to adhere to the new regulations once Bulgaria becomes a partial member of the Schengen Area. According to the Minister of Interior of Bulgaria, Kalin Stoyanov, airports in the

A delegation from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) led by its director, Sergey Naryshkin, visited Pyongyang on March 25-27, where it held talks on strengthening cooperation amid "intrigues of hostile forces," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. During

Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90. He became synonymous with behavioural economics, even though he never took a course of economics. Kahneman wrote the