News Archive

Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of Palestinian terrorist group Hamas' attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.  

Two years after the October 7 attacks that left over 1,200 dead, senior Hamas official Faouzi Barhoum called the assault a "historic response" to Israeli occupation. 

Czech populist billionaire Andrej Babis said he may take ministers nominated by eurosceptic and far-right parties into a government he is trying to form after his ANO party won a parliamentary election but fell short of a majority.

The world came to know her as the little Israeli-American girl who lost her parents in Hamas' October 7 attack and was abducted by the terrorist group to Gaza. Two years on, with a new pink backpack, she's off to her first day of school.

Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and SDF commander General Mazloum Abdi agreed on Tuesday to a comprehensive ceasefire on all fronts in north and northeastern Syria, the defence ministry said.

France's President Emmanuel Macron faced deepening pressure on Tuesday to hold a snap parliamentary election or even resign to end political chaos in the euro zone's second biggest economy that has forced the resignation of five prime ministers in less than two years.

Pope Leo will travel to Turkey and Lebanon in late November, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, in the first visit outside Italy by the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member global Catholic Church.

Imagine if one prize could restart stalled peace talks, end a war, or at least open the door to meaningful dialogue. In a world consumed by the tragedies of Gaza and Ukraine, traditional diplomacy is paralyzed. 

Two years ago, on October 7, 2023, the State of Israel woke up to a nightmare of unspeakable horror.

The Syrian army and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reached a ceasefire deal in two districts of Aleppo city, Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday, following a spike in tensions between the two sides.

A Tunisian court released a man on Tuesday who had been sentenced to death just last week for Facebook posts criticising the president, following a wave of public criticism and human rights concerns over the case.

Iran said on Monday it hopes for the imminent release of a French couple held in Tehran since 2022, in connection with the potential freeing of an Iranian woman detained in France.