Arab-American leaders meet with Blinken over Gaza
Demands include immediate ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, unimpeded humanitarian aid, halt to arms deliveries
Arab American Institute president: US efforts to restrain Israel ‘feeble,’ image across Arab world...
WHO says no medical supplies received in Gaza for 10 days
The World Health Organization said Friday that it has received no medical supplies in the Gaza Strip for 10 days as Israel pursues a new offensive against Hamas.Israel’s closure of the Rafah...
French authorities report sixth fatality in New Caledonia violence
French security forces reported another death Saturday in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, the sixth fatality in a nearly a week of violent unrest wracking the archipelago whose indigenous...
Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other’s ‘expansionism’
Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said...
Zelensky rejects Olympic truce call, saying it could help Russia
Zelensky said he had spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron who made the appeal told him Russian President Putin cannot be trusted
Putin earlier on Friday also...
The top UN court holds hearings on Israeli military incursion into Rafah
It is the fourth time South Africa has asked the ICJ for emergency measures
South Africa has asked the court to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah
Xi, Putin hail ties as ‘stabilising’ force in chaotic world
It is Putin’s first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over six months to China
Xi Jinping told his “old friend” Vladimir...
The Netherlands veers sharply to right with new government dominated by party of Geert...
Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders agreed on a coalition deal early Thursday that veers the Netherlands toward the hard right, capping a half year of tumultuous negotiations that...
South Africa seeks halt to Israel’s Rafah offensive at World Court
The hearings on May 16 and 17 will only focus on issuing emergency measures, to keep the dispute from escalating
South Africa will ask the...
Sri Lanka says 16 citizens killed fighting in Ukraine war
Soldiers from Sri Lanka’s regional neighbors India and Nepal have also signed up to fight since last year
Sri Lanka opened an inquiry last week into the...