Hamas-led authorities in Gaza have executed three men accused of collaborating with Israel, a Palestinian official said, as the group seeks to crush rising challenges from Palestinian militias it says are working against it with Israeli support.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned high-profile Egyptian-British activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lengthy imprisonment and repeated hunger strikes that prompted international pleas for his release, Al Qahera news said on Monday.
The commercial banking sector across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries posted robust growth in 2024, with total assets, deposits, and loan balances all recording near double-digit increases, according to the latest figures released by the GCC Statistical Centre (GCC-Stat).
The Israeli military said on Monday that it had reinforced air, land and naval forces across the country during the upcoming holiday period following a "multi-front assessment".
President Donald Trump hailed slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a "martyr for American freedom" on Sunday and vowed at his memorial service to carry on his work, while again accusing what he called the "radical left" for Kirk's murder.
The Allenby crossing, the sole gateway between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, has reopened for passenger traffic, a spokesperson for the Israeli authority managing the land border said on Monday.
The head of Iran's atomic energy organisation, Mohammad Eslami, has arrived in Moscow for talks, Russia's state-run RIA news agency quoted the Iranian embassy as saying on Monday.
At the United Nations, France enjoys an enviable status. Its permanent seat on the Security Council gives it the illusion of being one of the world’s great powers.
Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), re-elected Özgür Özel as its leader on Sunday during an extraordinary congress in Ankara, as the party faces mounting legal challenges and waves of arrests targeting its members.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday sharply criticized the growing wave of Western recognition of a Palestinian state, warning that it undermines peace efforts and strengthens extremist groups.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered to engage in direct talks with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump days after the first U.S. strike on a boat from the South American country that Trump says was carrying drug traffickers.
The recent decision by several countries to recognize the State of Palestine has sparked controversy, largely because none of the conditions for credibility—set out just months ago by French President Emmanuel Macron—have been fulfilled.
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