11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (178+ words) Hamas published the picture on its official website, underscoring its position that the fate of the captives lies with the political decisions of Israel’s leadership. Hamas has repeatedly declared its readiness to conclude a comprehensive deal with Israel to release…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (301+ words) US President Donald Trump has said that he was sending envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kiev with a plan to end the four-year-old Ukraine war. It will be the first time that Trump's son-in-law Kushner and…...

11+ hour, 34+ min ago   (669+ words) America's midterm elections have opened in a fog of confusion over mail voting, with ballots already going out as President Donald Trump presses courts to let him impose sweeping new restrictions on how they are handled. North Carolina became the…...

12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (128+ words) Israel is attacking southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least three people and wounding 23 others so far, the Lebanese health ministry has said. The ministry said the Israeli attacks late on Friday hit five locations in the southern Tyre and…...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago   (214+ words) The Trump administration is developing a post-war Middle East strategy focused on containing Iran through regional cooperation and expanding normalisation between Israel and its neighbours, Axios reported on Friday. The strategy remains in the early drafting stage and is intended…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago   (415+ words) The United Nations General Assembly has backed an Africa-led campaign to replace the widely used Mercator world map with a projection that more accurately represents the relative size of countries and continents. The resolution, sponsored by African states and led…...

16+ hour, 16+ min ago   (505+ words) US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has again described attacks by illegal Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as acts of “terrorism,” warning that the violence is damaging Israel’s standing around the world. Speaking to Israel’s public…...

18+ hour, 2+ min ago   (243+ words) Civilian casualties have been reported after the Houthi group fired a ballistic missile at a restaurant west of Taiz province in southwestern Yemen, according to state media. The Saba News Agency said on Friday that the Houthis “targeted a restaurant…...

18+ hour, 33+ min ago   (361+ words) Lebanon has received four more prisoners released by Israel, with the handover facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of ongoing efforts to return Lebanese detainees. An ICRC convoy on Friday travelled to Ras al-Naqoura…...

19+ hour, 22+ min ago   (177+ words) The EU rejects any attempt to make demographic or territorial changes in Gaza, a European Commission spokesperson has said. Christian Wigand was responding during the commission’s daily press briefing to an Anadolu question about statements by Israeli officials concerning plans…...