Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th Communist Party of China central committees and former premier, passed away on Friday in Shanghai. Li recently had a rest in Shanghai. On October 26, Li had a sudden heart attack and passed

India will resume visa services for Canadians after they ceased in a major diplomatic row in September, India's High Commission in Ottawa says. At the time, India said the move was due to "security threats" disrupting work at its Canadian missions. But the suspension

Russia’s military has conducted a “massive” retaliatory nuclear strike drill, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to revoke the country’s ratification of a global ban on nuclear testing. The exercise, which involved the test launch of missiles from a

More than 114 million people are estimated to be displaced worldwide, a record number that speaks to the “international community’s failure to solve conflicts,” the United Nations has said. “The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human

Israeli military ramps up its overnight raids across the occupied West Bank as it presses on with its deadly bombardment of Gaza. Russia-led UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip fails shortly after Moscow and Beijing vetoed a resolution put forward

At least 22 people have been reportedly killed and more than 50 wounded after a gunman went on a shooting spree in the northeastern state of Maine in the United States. Two law enforcement officials in the city of Lewiston told The Associated Press news agency on condition of anonymity

Israeli strikes killed eight soldiers in southern Syria early Wednesday, Syrian state media reported, in what the Israeli army said was a response to earlier rocket fire. Persistent rocket and artillery exchanges with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions

Police in China have rescued some 1,000 cats from a truck en route to a slaughterhouse, state-affiliated media has reported, busting part of an illicit trade that fraudulently sells feline meat as pork or mutton and sparking fresh food safety concerns. Acting on a tip-off by animal

Addressing a Cairo summit as the conflict raged into its third week, Guterres said the Palestinian enclave of 2.4 million people was living through "a humanitarian catastrophe" with thousands dead and more than a million displaced. "We meet in the heart of a region that

The United States is preparing evacuation plans for up to 600,000 Americans in Israel in the event of a full-scale ground war in the region. US officials have created contingency plans involving a major exodus of American citizens from the area, as Israel is poised to send ground

The Israeli military held a screening for journalists on Monday of raw footage recovered from Hamas body cameras, in an effort to remind the world of the brutality of the attack on Israel two weeks ago. The bodycam footage, cut together with clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and the

In light of the ongoing Swords of Iron War and heightened tensions in the North, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) has released its assessment of Hezbollah's rocket and missile arsenal. "Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed organization armed with a substantial

In the largest of the attacks, unidentified attackers targeted a security patrol in Guerrero state's municipality of Coyuca de Benitez, prosecutor Alejandro Hernandez said. According to preliminary information, 11 members of the municipal police force were killed, he said, adding

The International Organization for Migration has reported that almost 20,000 people have been internally displaced in Lebanon as a result of escalating violence on the Lebanese-Israeli border, which has intensified following the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza. The movements of these

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry yesterday said that more than 5,000 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian enclave since Israel launched its withering bombing campaign more than two weeks ago. Alarm has surged about the spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the

A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced in absentia the exiled daughter of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to seven years in prison for “promoting” her father’s outlawed Baath party. The party was dissolved and banned after Hussein was toppled during the 2003 US-led

More than 400 Palestinians were killed on Sunday as a result of intensified Israeli attacks on Gaza. Most of those killed were women and children, medical sources told the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The attacks were concentrated in Jabalya and Beit Lahiya in the north, the al Gusta

Israeli warplanes bombarded areas near three hospitals in the Gaza Strip early on Monday, Palestinian media reported, but it was not immediately clear whether the hospitals themselves suffered damage. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the reports, which said

More than 1,400 African migrants have reached Spain’s Canary Islands this weekend, with one vessel bringing a single-boat record of 321 people, authorities said Sunday. A total of 1,457 migrants had reached the Spanish islands off the western African coast between Friday night

Israel’s ongoing attacks against Gaza have killed over 1,000 women and forced the displacement of about half a million others from their homes since October 7, the media office of the Gaza government said. The office said in a statement that as of Sunday, 1,023 women have been