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Foreign minister makes it clear that China will be a stabilising, cooperative force in international affairs, and calls on US to honour its pledges with a warning over Taiwan.
Six people were reportedly killed in stampedes and 12 others drowned off the territory’s Mediterranean coast trying to salvage aid packages. Hamas has demanded that Israel allow more aid trucks to enter Gaza instead.
In an interview with The New York Times, Amit Soussana said she was forced at gunpoint to perform a sex act on her man guard. Hamas has repeatedly rejected accusations of sexual violence.
With Gazans increasingly desperate, foreign governments have turned to airdrops to meet basic humanitarian needs of people living in the territory.
Trust between Biden and Netanyahu appear to be eroding after the US allowed passage of a Gaza ceasefire resolution at the United Nations.
Putin said investigators have not determined who ordered attack but it was necessary to ‘find out why the terrorists, after committing their crime, tried to flee to Ukraine’.
Israeli PM said US failure to veto Security Council ceasefire proposal was ‘clear retreat’ from previous position and would harm war efforts against Hamas.
The resolution also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages that Hamas took during its October 7 attack.
Announcement came after President Emmanuel Macron held emergency security meeting prompted by Friday’s attack at a Moscow concert venue that killed more than 130 people
‘This is outrageous and makes it intentional to obstruct life-saving assistance during a man-made famine,’ said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
‘The Houthis attacked the MV Huang despite previously stating they would not attack Chinese vessels,’ the US military said in a statement.
The Israeli military says it has questioned over 800 suspects and found “numerous weapons and terror infrastructure”.
The Web3 video gaming unicorn has signed an MOU with Saudi Arabia’s state-backed science park, months after a US$50 million investment in its Neom smart city.
About 1,980 acres in northern Jordan Valley has been declared ‘state land’, said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich as Blinken warned Netanyahu an offensive in Rafah would risk ‘further isolating’ Israel.
US ambassador to UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield accused Russia and China of vetoing resolution for ‘petty’ reasons, simply because it was written by the US.
Chinese diplomat’s comments at ICJ appear to endorse armed struggle against Israel in what analyst calls an ‘unanticipated shift’ in stance, but others deny this marks a radical departure, noting Beijing still favours two-state solution.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said the military campaign will go ahead ‘even if the entire world turns on Israel, including the United States’.
In exchange, Beijing and Moscow may support the Yemen-based militants in bodies such as the UN Security Council, people with knowledge of the talks say.
Readers discuss the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and the meeting between China’s foreign minister and a former Australian prime minister.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the draft resolution seeking an immediate ceasefire linked to the release of hostages would ‘send a strong message’.
A senior Canadian official said ‘the situation on the ground makes it so that we can’t’ export any equipment that could have a potential military use.
Many foreign enterprises already felt safe and legally protected in Hong Kong, says German Chamber of Commerce president.
Before the war in Gaza, six-year-old Fadi al-Zant weighed 30kg. Now, he’s acutely malnourished and just 12kg.
Donald Trump’s son-in-law also suggested bulldozing an area of the Negev desert in southern Israel and moving Palestinians there.
Wang Kejian and Ismail Haniyeh talk in first meeting between a Chinese official and the militant group since war began.
Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan’s Middle East tour comes as Singapore becomes ‘more vocal’ on Israel’s actions in Gaza, observers say.
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke for first time in a month amid growing tensions over the war in Gaza.