Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip yesterday and cut off utility supplies as it kept bombing targets in the crowded Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas surprise assault.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China-US ties would impact the “destiny of mankind”, as he met with a group of American senators in Beijing.

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin yesterday for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labour market.

Rescue workers yesterday scrambled to pull out survivors, and the dead, from beneath the rubble two days after the northwestern city of Herat and its surroundings were struck by the deadliest earthquakes to rattle Afghanistan in years.

The United Nations yesterday voiced deep concern over Moscow’s “mass conferral” of Russian passports in Ukrainian territory it controls and denying essential services to people who refuse them.

India’s Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said yesterday the party’s working committee has unanimously decided to support the idea of caste census in the country and announced that party chief ministers in Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan are considering it.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that creating a Palestinian state was the “most reliable” solution for peace in Israel and that fighting terrorism alone would not ensure security.

Palestinian militant group Hamas today threatened to kill hostages if the Israeli army carried out air strikes without prior warning targeting residents of the Gaza Strip

Air traffic has resumed at Germany's Hamburg airport, a spokesperson told Reuters today, after a police operation in response to a threat against a plane from Tehran prompted all landings and take-offs to be halted

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed today to "change the Middle East" in Israel's war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, as the army pounded the Gaza Strip with air strikes

‘Infiltrators from Lebanon’ killed; Israel eyes unity govt as it gears up for Gaza ground assault; 800 killed in Israel, 560 in Gaza

Palestinians have every right to resist oppression, violence and racist practices of the illegal Israeli occupation, the Palestinian embassy in Dhaka said today

American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for "having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said today

'We are putting a complete siege on Gaza... No electricity, no food, no water, no gas -- it's all closed'

Iran on Monday rejected as unfounded allegations it had a role in the massive assault on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched its devastating attack, enabling a force using bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to take on the Middle East's most powerful army.

The spiraling violence threatens to start a major new war in the Middle East.

China said Monday it "opposes and condemns" violence against civilians in Israel and the Palestinian territories

Israeli troops fought to regain control of the desert around the Gaza Strip and evacuate people from the embattled border area on Monday, as the death toll from the war with Hamas surged above 1,100 by the third day of clashes.

The Bank of Israel said on Monday it will sell up to $30 billion of foreign currency in the open market, in the central bank's first ever sale of foreign exchange, to maintain stability during Israel's war with Palestinian militants in Gaza