Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in that conflict, the CPJ said, although fatalities were stable in Somalia and the Philippines. The toll is the highest since 2015 and an increase of nearly 44 percent on 2022's figures.

Israeli forces said on Thursday they had raided the biggest functioning hospital in Gaza as footage showed chaos, shouting and gunfire in dark corridors filled with dust and smoke. Israel’s military called the raid on Nasser Hospital “precise and limited” and said it

The Israeli military said on Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of strikes in Lebanon”, raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire. The military gave no further details of the air strikes, while Lebanese media reported air

The leaders of Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, according to a joint statement released in response to reports about Israel’s planned military operation in Rafah. “We are gravely concerned by indications

Kallas’ name appeared on the Interior Ministry’s register of people wanted in connection with criminal charges. It didn’t specify what charges Kallas was facing. It is the first time the ministry has put a foreign leader on a wanted list.  Kallas has been a

More than 1,300 irregular migrants died at sea or went missing trying to reach Europe from Tunisia last year, a Tunisian rights group said on Tuesday. Islem Ghaarbi, a migration expert at the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights, told a press conference that “1,313

France has announced sanctions against 28 Israeli settlers whom it accused of committing human rights abuses against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank. The 28 individuals would be banned from entering France, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

South Africa says it has asked the World Court to consider whether Israel’s plan to extend its offensive in the Gaza Strip into the densely populated southern city of Rafah requires additional emergency measures to protect Palestinians. The International Court of Justice (ICJ)

A top UN official has warned an Israeli assault on Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, could lead to a "slaughter". Humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said Palestinians in Gaza were already suffering an "assault that is unparalleled in its intensity, brutality and

More than 200 million people over Indonesia's 17,000 islands and across three time zones are eligible to vote. The election will see voters choose their president, vice-president and representatives in the legislature. The current frontrunner is former defence minister Prabowo

Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto's parties in Pakistan have reached a deal to form a government. Mr Bhutto's PPP said it would help Mr Sharif's PML-N elect a prime minister after last week's election. The two parties were previously in a coalition that ousted Imran

At least 17 Tunisians who were on a migrant boat heading towards the Italian coast are missing, a Tunisian national guard official said on (Monday) February 12, according to Reuters. The missing people, including a five-year-old child, had set sail on a fishing boat from Bizerte in

The death toll from a landslide in the southern Philippines has climbed to 68 as officials say the window for finding more survivors is closing. Hundreds of rescuers have used their bare hands, shovels and heavy earth-moving equipment for nearly a week looking for those buried since

Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to be freed, according to local media reports. Thaksin, 74, who was jailed for eight years for abuse of power before a royal pardon reduced the term to one year, was granted release on the basis of his age and

A woman clad in a trench coat and accompanied by a child opened fire in a crowded Texas megachurch before she was gunned down by security, officials say. The suspect, named by police as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, was with her seven-year-old son, who was critically injured in the

Ex-US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to suspend a lower court ruling that he does not have presidential immunity from prosecution. He had claimed in his election interference case he could not be tried for acts carried out as president. Three lower court judges

A Palestinian doctor in Rafah has said people are terrified about the prospect of an Israeli ground offensive in Gaza's southern-most city, after a night of some of the worst air strikes he has experienced since arriving there. In a series of messages sent to the BBC on Monday, Dr

United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalised for the second time in a month, the Pentagon has announced, after an earlier hospital stay that attracted criticism for lacking transparency. Austin, who underwent treatment for prostate cancer last year, was

At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air and sea attacks on Rafah overnight, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Israel’s planned ground offensive on Rafah will “blow up” the captive exchange negotiations, the Al-Aqsa television channel quoted

The death toll from a landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 people and 63 others are missing, authorities have said. The landslide hit the mountain village of Masara in Davao de Oro province on Tuesday night after weeks of torrential