Blinken tells Abbas Gazans must not be 'forcibly displaced': spokesman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday that Palestinians in Gaza "must not be forcibly displaced", a State Department spokesman said
5 November 2023

Blinken meets Palestinian president Abbas in surprise West Bank visit

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a high-security surprise visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank Sunday, meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, according to photographs released by the Palestinian Authority
5 November 2023

War with Hamas to cost Israel above $50 billion

Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip will cost as much as 200 billion shekels ($51 billion), the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Sunday, citing preliminary Finance Ministry figures
5 November 2023

Indian diplomat says high-level Canadian official damaged probe into Sikh's murder

Canada's police probe into the June murder of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia has been damaged by a high-level Canadian official's public statements, India's High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, told the Globe and Mail in an interview published on Saturday
5 November 2023

China agrees to nuclear arms-control talks with US: WSJ

The US State Department and China's embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests by Reuters for comment on the timing or format of the talks.
5 November 2023

Russia test fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile

The launch of the "Bulava" missile, the first in just over a year, comes as Russia ramps up nuclear rhetoric since revoking its ratification of a key nuclear test ban treaty.
5 November 2023

Israel-Hamas war: Latest developments

Gazans must not be 'forcibly displaced', Blinken tells Abbas
5 November 2023

What Palestinians are going through is unbearable: Obama

Former US President Barack Obama has said that what Palestinians are going through during Israel's ongoing ground incursion in Gaza is "unbearable"
5 November 2023

Over 30 killed in Israeli bombing on Al-Maghazi camp in Gaza

More than 30 people were killed in an Israeli bombing on a refugee camp in central Gaza late Saturday, the Hamas-run health ministry there said, amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas militants
5 November 2023

Washington Post appoints William Lewis as CEO; to reduce headcount by 10%

The Washington Post said that it is projected to end the year taking a $100 million loss.
5 November 2023

Arab world, US split on Gaza ceasefire as Israeli offensive presses on

Israel last month ordered all civilians to leave the northern part of Gaza, including Gaza City, and head to the southern part of the enclave.
5 November 2023

Zelensky denies war with Russia at ‘stalemate’

President Volodymyr Zelensky denied yesterday that Ukraine’s war with Russia had reached a “stalemate”, pushing back at suggestions Western leaders were lobbying for peace talks.
4 November 2023

16 dead in Western Europe

The death toll from Storm Ciaran rose to at least 16 across Western Europe on Friday, as heavy downpours and record winds brought travel chaos.
4 November 2023

4.4 million people stateless

The United Nations said yesterday that 4.4 million people worldwide were known to be stateless, though the true figure would be significantly higher due to their relative “invisibility”.
4 November 2023

9 militants killed in Pakistan

Nine Islamist militants attacked an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali yesterday damaging three “non-operational” aircraft, the military said, adding that all assailants had been killed by security forces.
4 November 2023

Myanmar rebels mark further gains

Myanmar ethnic armed groups seized a handful of outposts yesterday as they pressed their offensive against the junta in the north of the country, local media reports said.
4 November 2023

‘Disgusted by sharp rise in hatred globally’

The UN human rights chief yesterday denounced the “sharp rise in hatred globally” since the war between Hamas and Israel began on October 7.
4 November 2023

Sudan shelling kills 15

At least 15 civilians in Khartoum were killed yesterday “when shells fell on their homes”, a medical source said, as paramilitary fighters battling Sudan’s army claimed gains in Darfur.
4 November 2023

15 killed in strike on UN-run school in Gaza

Palestinians reported a deadly Israeli air strike on a UN-run school in northern Gaza serving as a shelter yesterday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met regional Arab leaders to discuss how to contain the conflict.
4 November 2023