By joining the indirect talks in Egypt between Israel and Hamas, Turkey hopes to use its longstanding relationship with the Palestinian Islamist movement to help end the Gaza war.
Hamas said on Wednesday it had exchanged a list of the names of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under a swap deal and that it was optimistic about talks in Egypt on US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza....
Pro-Palestinian protests were planned in several countries on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that led to the war in Gaza, despite warnings by some politicians that they could inflame tensions....
Ukraine found tens of thousands of foreign parts, some Western-made, in Russian drones and missiles fired on Ukraine over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday....
The United Nations chief on Tuesday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held in Gaza, and an end to hostilities in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, Israel and the region....
Hamas on Sunday called for a swift start to a hostage-prisoner exchange with Israel, as negotiators from the two warring sides were set to meet in Egypt for crucial talks aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza....
Hamas officials were in Egypt on Monday ahead of talks with Israel that the US hopes will lead to a halt in fighting and the freeing of hostages in Gaza....
Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior envoy were heading to Egypt on Saturday to finalise hostage release details, as the US president warned he would “not tolerate delay” by Hamas in implementing a peace deal with Israel....
Two years after Palestinian militants took two of her sons hostage, Silvia Cunio is demanding an end to the war between Israel and Hamas, desperate to turn the page on her family’s suffering....
A drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region on Friday, two media unions and a Ukrainian military unit said....
French police have arrested the Chinese captain of a sanctioned tanker suspected of operating for Russia’s “shadow fleet”, authorities said, after the navy boarded the vessel anchored off western France....
The only remaining boat in a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza sailed toward the war-torn Palestinian territory, after Israeli navy interceptions of its fellow vessels drew worldwide protests....
A flotilla carrying aid to Gaza said dozens of its ships were still “sailing strong” toward the war-battered Palestinian territory despite an interception by Israeli naval forces....
Activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla said Israeli warships surrounded several of its boats on Wednesday and that the interception of the main vessels was under way....
France’s President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he did not rule out downing a Russian fighter jet if it were to breach European airspace....
Israel’s relentless destruction of Gaza and targeting of the Palestinian civilian population shows no sign of abating, with at least 17 killed in attacks since dawn, as a US ceasefire plan hangs in the balance to end the genocidal two-year war waged by the Israeli government....
President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to back a US-sponsored Gaza peace proposal aimed at ending a nearly two-year-old war in the Palestinian enclave, including a ceasefire and the release of hostages held by Hamas....
Ukraine announced that a Russian overnight drone strike had killed a family of four in the northeastern Sumy region....
Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog....
Key Muslim nations threw their weight behind a plan by US President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, even as some Palestinians decried the proposal as a “farce”....
US President Donald Trump says that he will tell a gathering of US generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, that they are cherished leaders who need to be strong and tough....
US President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for high-stakes talks aimed at pushing an elusive Gaza peace plan over the line....
The death toll from alcohol poisoning in western Russia this month rose to 25 after lethal methanol levels were confirmed in six more bodies, investigators said Saturday....
Germany is considering allowing its military to shoot down drones, a report said on Saturday, after recent drone incursions around Europe raised tensions with Russia....
Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned on Friday against a return to a “Cold War mentality” and defended multilateralism and free trade, in a veiled criticism of the United States from the United Nations....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply denounced Western countries on Friday for embracing Palestinian statehood and accused them of buckling under pressure from activists and others who have accused Israel of war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza....
South Korean forces fired warning shots at a North Korean merchant vessel that crossed the disputed sea border between the two countries in the Yellow Sea for up to an hour, officials said....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Kremlin will become a target, and Russian officials should check for bomb shelters if Moscow does not stop its invasion of his country, Axios reported on Thursday....
France has recognised a Palestinian state at a world summit in New York on Monday, nearly two years into the war in Gaza, joining Western allies such as Britain and Canada, who made the same historic move on Sunday and were rebuked by Israel....
World leaders gather in New York this coming week for a UN General Assembly dominated by US President Donald Trump’s return to the rostrum, war in Gaza and Ukraine, rising Western recognition of Palestinian statehood and nuclear tensions with Iran....
Tara Reade, an American woman who claimed US ex-President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, was granted Russian citizenship on Monday, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin....
