At least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. An airstrike hit the civil emergency centre in the Nuseirat market area in the central Gaza Strip, killing Ahmed Al-Louh, a video journalist for Al Jazeera TV, and five other people, Reuters reported. Another strike on a More
Germany has frozen Russian assets amounting to about 3.5 billion euros in line with the EU sanctions regime, says a media report. TASS quoted a source in the French Federal Ministry of Finance as saying: “Assets worth around 3.5 bln euro have been frozen or immobilized in Germany by now.” The assets include “blocked funds More
François Bayrou, a veteran politician, has been appointed as new Fresh prime minister in the wake of last week’s historic vote of no-confidence. The Guardian reported that Bayrou, 73, was the leader of the centrist MoDem party and a political heavyweight from south-western France who calls himself a “man of the countryside”. A former education More
The United Nations General Assembly has demand an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday. The assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution that also expressed support for the work of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The resolution was adopted with 158 votes in favour from More
At least two suspected militants riding a motorcycle were killed as the bomb they were carrying exploded in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province. ABC News said the incident in Quetta took place on Monday when the explosive device the suspects were carrying went off near a police check post. The blast took More
The European Council has announced its member countries have agreed to pay 4.1 billion euros to Ukraine as part of an aid package. In a statement on Monday, the EU Council said the government of Ukraine would receive the second regular payment of grants and loans under the EU’s Ukraine Facility. The fund is a More
US President-elect Donald Trump has warned NATO allies again in a televised interview that the United States’ presence in the Western military alliance (NATO) is not guaranteed and that the US withdrawal from NATO is possible. According to the Associated Press, in an interview with NBC News, Trump said in response to a question about More
After the fall of Bashar al-Assad administration, say the future of the country is a matter for the Syrians to determine. In a post on X, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote: “After 14 years of brutal war & the fall of the dictatorial regime, today the people of Syria can seize an historic opportunity to More
US President-Elect Donald Trump has said that ousted Syrian President Bashar-al-Asad had fled the country after his protector Russian stopped interest in protecting him, a media report said on Sunday. On his x.com, Trump said: “Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly fled the country after opposition fighters entered Damascus, the capital of Syria. The reports were confirmed by multiple sources on Sunday, marking the apparent end of Assad’s 24-year authoritarian rule. According to Reuters, a Syrian army officer revealed that Assad left Damascus for an unknown destination earlier in the More
