Russia-Ukraine was has been going on for over two years now (File) Russia is demanding that Ukraine hand over all persons connected with terrorist acts committed in Russia, including the head of the country’s SBU Security Service, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. “Russia has turned over to Ukrainian authorities its demands…for the immediate arrest…
Hezbollah confirmed the death of Al-Zin in a statement (Representational) An air strike in Lebanon “eliminated” a Hezbollah missile unit commander on Sunday, Israel’s military said, with Israel and the Iran-backed group exchanging near-daily cross-border fire for months. The Israeli Air Force “struck a vehicle in the area of Kunin in Lebanon in which Ismail…
WHO Chief urged all parties to comply with UNSC’s resolution calling for a ceasefire. An Israeli airstrike on Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza killed four people and wounded another 17, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The strike was witnessed by a World Health Organization team at the hospital…
Protesters were waving blue and white Israeli flags and chanting “elections now”. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of mass street protests last year. Protest groups, including some that led the mass demonstrations…
Smoke rises during an Israeli strike in the vicinity of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on March 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. | Photo Credit: AFP The top United Nations court on March 28 ordered Israel to take measures including opening more land crossings to allow…
Turkey’s main opposition party appeared set to retain its control over key cities in Sunday’s local elections, preliminary results showed, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. With some 20% of the votes counted, incumbent mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of the Republican…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo surgery on March 31 for a hernia his doctors have discovered, a statement from his office said. The Prime Minister will be fully sedated after his doctors discovered the hernia “during a routine examination”. “During this time, Deputy Prime…
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government has allowed a free and fair investigation for the independent execution of justice in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, as Christians across the country held the Easter Sunday services in a calm atmosphere but under tight security….
Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers search for casualties after a car bomb exploded in a busy market in the Turkish-controlled northwestern city of Azaz, Syria, March 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A bomb exploded in a shopping area in a northern Syrian city held by pro-Turkish forces, killing eight people and wounding more…
President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. | Photo Credit: Reuters Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has ordered his government to strengthen its coordination on maritime security to confront “a range of serious challenges” to territorial integrity and peace, as a dispute with China escalates. The order, signed on Monday and made public on March…
