Hamas says still ready to go ahead with Gaza plan
AFP, Gaza City
9 August 2026 Middle East
Ukraine warns of tough winter as Russia strikes kill 4 in Kyiv region
AFP, Belgrade
9 August 2026 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Iran, Oman ‘very close’ to deal on Hormuz
Reuters, Cairo/Washington/Riyadh
9 August 2026 US-Israel war on Iran
Iran says deal on Strait of Hormuz is close but will not open the waterway by itself
Reuters, Cairo/Washington/Riyadh
8 August 2026 US-Israel war on Iran
IRAN WAR DILEMMA / Trump stuck with no exit in sight
Reuters, Washington
8 August 2026 World

Turkey calls for Ukraine truce

Turkey yesterday called for a ceasefire in Ukraine just days ahead of a meeting between the leaders of Turkey and Russia in the Kazakh capital Astana.
11 October 2022

Biden to ‘re-evaluate’ Saudi ties after OPEC snub

President Joe Biden is to “re-evaluate” the US relationship with Saudi Arabia in light of the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, a White House spokesperson said yesterday.
11 October 2022

Bangladesh wants an end to Russia-Ukraine war: Momen

Bangladesh wants an end to the Russia-Ukraine war that is causing endless sufferings to humanity, especially the poor countries, women and children, said Foreign Minister Abdul Momen.
11 October 2022

Journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price in Iran

Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma.
11 October 2022

Ukraine to strengthen armed forces, US says will provide air defence

Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe.
11 October 2022

12-year-old Palestinian boy dies of gunshot wound from Israel army raid

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy died Monday after being shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers during a September army raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
10 October 2022

Ukraine fears power outages in winter as Russian strikes causes blackouts

Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's power network caused blackouts in many parts of the country on Monday, deepening fears of outages this winter and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports.
10 October 2022

US trio win Nobel Prize in Economics

A trio of US economists including Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke have won this year’s Nobel Economics Prize for laying the foundation of how world powers now tackle global crises like the recent pandemic or the Great Recession of 2008.
10 October 2022

Mahsa Amini’s death: Iran students, workers defy protest crackdown

Iranian protesters remained defiant yesterday with students staging sit-ins and some industrial workers going on strike despite a crackdown activists say has left dozens dead and hundreds more imprisoned.
10 October 2022

Assange ill with Covid in prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has tested positive for Covid, his wife said yesterday, as she battles his extradition to the United States.
10 October 2022

Funding for refugees: UN warns of ‘severe cuts’

The head of the UN refugee agency said yesterday that his organisation will need to make deep cuts with dire consequences for displaced
10 October 2022

Heatwaves will make regions uninhabitable in decades

Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said yesterday.
10 October 2022

Putin retaliates, strikes Ukraine cities

Russia launched its most widespread air strikes since the start of the Ukraine war yesterday, raining cruise missiles on busy cities during rush hour and knocking out power and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin called revenge for a blown up bridge.
10 October 2022

Russia launches biggest air attacks since start of war in Ukraine

Russia launched its most widespread air strikes since the start of the Ukraine war on Monday, raining cruise missiles on busy cities during rush hour and knocking out power and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin called revenge for a blown up bridge.
10 October 2022

Winners of 2022 Nobel prizes

Following is a list of the Nobel prize winners in 2022:
10 October 2022

Woman's death in custody: Iran intensifies crackdown in Kurdish cities

Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, social media posts and videos showed, pressing efforts to quell unrest ignited by the death of a woman in morality police custody.
10 October 2022

Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig win Nobel prize in Economics

This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the US Federal Reserve, Ben S Bernanke, and two US-based economists, Douglas W Diamond and Philip H Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”
10 October 2022

76 killed in Nigeria boat accident

Almost everyone on board a boat died when it capsized in a flood-swollen river in Nigeria's Anambra state, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.
10 October 2022

22 dead after landslide sweeps through Venezuela town

A landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods, authorities said Sunday. Dozens of people are missing.
10 October 2022

North Korea says recent tests a nuclear warning to South Korea, US

North Korea's recent flurry of missile tests were designed to simulate showering the South with tactical nuclear weapons as a warning after large-scale navy drills by South Korean and US forces, state news agency KCNA said on Monday.
10 October 2022