A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip took effect on Sunday after a nearly three-hour delay, pausing a 15-month-old war that has brought devastation and seismic political change to the Middle East.
Thousands of demonstrators, predominantly women, came together in Washington to voice their opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with many donning pink hats reminiscent of a much larger protest during his first swearing-in ceremony in 2017.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Friday sentenced to 14 years in prison, and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a case related to the misuse of authority and corruption involving Khan’s Al-Qadir University Project Trust.
Israel and Hamas have agreed a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal following 15 months of war, mediators Qatar and the US have said.
MONITORING (SW) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has met his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed Shia Al Sudani for talks on trade, security and migration, in
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, marking Pyongyang’s latest show of force just days ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office.
Negotiators will meet in Doha on Tuesday seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza after U.S. President Joe Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he has championed was on “the brink” of coming to fruition.
MONITORING (SW) – The civil defence service of Gaza said Israeli forces had killed 70 children across the enclave over five days as Israel sent several senior officials for talks in Doha on a potential ceasefire deal.
Belarus’s first deputy foreign minister Luka Shevich has stated that his country seeks to cooperate with the Islamic Emirate de-facto government in Afghanistan in various sectors.
Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, the first time Ukraine has announced the capture of North Korean soldiers alive since their entry into the war last autumn.
Firefighters are making an all-out assault to prevent the largest of the deadly wildfires that is threatening Los Angeles city in the US from spreading into one of the city’s most exclusive neighbourhoods.
Nearly 1,000 incarcerated men and women have joined the frontlines in a battle against record-breaking wildfires burning across southern California.
