International troops could be deployed in the Gaza Strip as early as next month to form a UN-authorized stabilisation force, two US officials told Reuters, but it remains unclear how Palestinian Hamas fighters will be disarmed. The officials, speaking on مزید پڑھیں
Three would-be migrants died and several others had to be rescued, along with a suspected trafficker, after a boat capsized on a river on the Croatia-Bosnia border, police said. Police received a report in the early hours that a boat مزید پڑھیں
Two four-storey buildings collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez, killing at least 19 people, according to a provisional toll reported by the country’s official news agency. “Sixteen other people were wounded, with varying degrees of severity,” the Maghreb Arabe مزید پڑھیں
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has introduced a sweeping ban on all forms of photography and video recording in the two Holy Mosques, the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. The new policy, set مزید پڑھیں
The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of its eastern Aomori prefecture. The JMA reported that the epicentre of the quake was registered off the coast of Aomori at a depth of 80 kilometres مزید پڑھیں
The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of Nato’s conventional defence capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic. The مزید پڑھیں
Streaming giant Netflix has agreed to acquire film and television studio Warner Bros Discovery for nearly $83 billion, the two US companies announced. The acquisition, which gives Netflix access to a vast film catalogue as well as the prestigious streaming مزید پڑھیں
Russian President Vladimir Putin was due in India for a two-day visit aimed at deepening defence ties, as New Delhi faces heavy US pressure to stop buying oil from Moscow. Putin, on his first visit to India since the Ukraine مزید پڑھیں
Trump administration has imposed the most sweeping internal freeze on immigration benefits in decades, ordering United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to halt all asylum adjudications and suspend a broad range of applications from nationals of 19 “high-risk” countries, مزید پڑھیں
The Foreign Office (FO) said that India was preventing humanitarian assistance from being sent to Sri Lanka by air, prompting Islamabad to send aid by sea to the south Asian island, where severe flooding and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah مزید پڑھیں