1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (643+ words) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement is due on Thursday to elect a new central committee for the first time in 10 years, as it faces existential challenges in the wake of the Gaza war. During the three-day general conference, the…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago  (560+ words) Israel's ruling coalition on Wednesday submitted a proposal to dissolve parliament to pave the way for early elections as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under mounting attack from ultra-Orthodox parties. The move, initiated by Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, came as…...

4+ hour, 15+ min ago  (316+ words) Amnesty International said on Thursday that the Israeli army's destruction of civilian homes in southern Syria since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad should be investigated as "war crimes". Israel moved its forces into a UN-patrolled demilitarised zone on…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago  (247+ words) A US judge on Wednesday imposed a temporary injunction on sanctions imposed last year by Washington on a United Nations expert on the occupied Palestinian territories. UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was sanctioned in July 2025 after she…...

4+ hour, 37+ min ago  (619+ words) Lebanon and Israel are to hold new peace talks in Washington starting Thursday, as their latest ceasefire -- considered to still be in place despite hundreds of deaths in Israeli strikes -- nears its end. On the eve of the negotiations, Lebanon's…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago  (700+ words) Lebanon's Simon Karam and Israel's Yechiel Leiter, both political veterans with entrenched views, will come face to face in Washington for talks Thursday after decades in a state of war. Lebanon and Israel have no formal ties, but US President…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago  (194+ words) Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty headed on Wednesday to the Indian capital, New Delhi, to participate in the BRICS ministerial meeting, scheduled to take place on 14 and 15 May. The Egyptian foreign ministry stated that'Abdelatty is scheduled to hold meetings with senior…...

20+ hour, 19+ min ago  (352+ words) Turkey and Armenia will formally resume trade relations after a 33-year freeze as part of a rapprochement between the two countries, a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Turkey shut its border with Armenia in 1993 in support of its…...

22+ hour, 24+ min ago  (372+ words) Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday during an Israeli settler attack north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victim as 16-year-old Yusuf Kaabneh, adding that four other…...

15+ hour, 44+ min ago  (513+ words) Israel intensified strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday with the health ministry reporting 12 people killed in attacks targeting cars, despite the ceasefire. Lebanon's health ministry said three strikes on cars along or near the coastal highway around 20 to 30 kilometres from Beirut…...