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Gaza hostage-prisoner swap set to go ahead after row over bodies

The group admitted "the possibility of an error or mix-up of bodies", which it attributed to Israeli bombing of the area.
22 February 2025, 03:04 AM

Man who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie guilty of attempted murder

Hadi Matar will be sentenced on April 23, and faces up to 25 years in prison
22 February 2025, 03:01 AM

Trump fires top US general in unprecedented Pentagon shakeup

Trump said he would nominate retired Lieutenant General Dan "Razin" Caine to succeed Brown
22 February 2025, 02:53 AM

42,000 people fled eastern DRC to Burundi in two weeks: UN

Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said yesterday.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Hamas rejects Israeli PM’s ‘threats’

Hamas yesterday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “threats” to make the Palestinian group pay after he accused it of violating the ceasefire by not returning the hostage Shiri Bibas.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Carry out West Bank operation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to carry out an “intensive” operation in the West Bank after explosions on buses close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in what Netanyahu’s office described as an attempted mass attack.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

US-Ukraine resources deal still on table

Kyiv and Washington are engaged in talks over a deal to hand the United States preferential access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits, a source in Kyiv told AFP yesterday -- despite a dramatic spat between leaders Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump hits out at AP as ‘radical left’ media

US President Donald Trump on Thursday called the Associated Press (AP) a “radical left organization”, his latest salvo against the US media mainstay over its use of the Gulf of Mexico for the renamed body of water.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Ukrainian refugees watch talks with concern

Three years since the arrival of Russian forces drove her from her home in eastern Ukraine to Poland, Oksana Sapronova and other refugees fear their homeland’s battlefield losses could now end up being in vain.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Bus Crash: 12 university students dead in Brazil

Twelve university students died and 21 were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Brazil’s southeastern state of Sao Paulo, officials said yesterday.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

France to deploy cops at schools for spot bag searches

French police will start random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools in a bid to fight an increase in violent attacks, the education minister said yesterday.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Arab leaders gather in Saudi Arabia to hash out Gaza plan

A source close to the Saudi government told AFP that Arab leaders would discuss 'a reconstruction plan to counter Trump's plan for Gaza'
21 February 2025, 10:43 AM

Trump hits out at US agency AP as 'radical left' media

The 180-year-old media organization has long been a pillar of US journalism and provides news to print, TV and radio outlets across the country
21 February 2025, 09:36 AM

Trump seeks to reshape Asia's energy supplies with US gas

When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realise a decades-old proposal to unlock gas in Alaska and ship it to US allies in Asia.
21 February 2025, 04:43 AM

US sends migrants from Guantanamo to Venezuela

The United States deported 177 migrants from its military base in Guantanamo, Cuba to their homeland in Venezuela Thursday, the latest sign of cooperation between the long-feuding governments.
21 February 2025, 03:59 AM

93 bodies found in mass graves in Libya

A total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations said Wednesday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

BJP’s Rekha Gupta sworn in as new Delhi CM

A member of India’s ruling Hindu-nationalist party was sworn in yesterday as chief minister of Delhi after an election landslide handed it control of the capital for the first time in decades.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Iran executed 975 in ‘horrifying’ 2024 escalation

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said yesterday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Britain, France eye ‘reassurance force’ for Kyiv

Britain and France are spearheading attempts to create a European “reassurance force” of fewer than 30,000 troops to protect Ukraine after any ceasefire deal with Russia, UK media reported yesterday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli fire kills 3 Palestinians

Three Palestinians were killed on Wednesday evening by Israeli forces in the al-Faraa camp near Tubas in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian state news agency WAFA reported.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM