Al Jazeera: Iran has accused the United States of trying to force open a new route through the Strait of Hormuz, bypassing Iranian authorities, a move it says violates the two countries’ interim peace deal and caused tensions there to spike. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the remarks in an interview published by Iranian […]
(Reuters) July 25- Russian authorities said 11 people including four children had been killed by Ukraine in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, accusing Kyiv on Saturday of deliberately attacking civilians. Ukraine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both Russia and Ukraine deny […]
(Reuters) July 25 – Thirty-five people were killed and 30 injured in a collision between two passenger buses on the Deir al-Zor-to-Damascus road, a health ministry official told state news agency SANA on Saturday. The collision involved a bus carrying members of the Internal Security Forces and a civilian passenger bus, SANA reported, citing the […]
(Reuters) RAMALLAH, July 25 – Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, after at least four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shootout when armed Israeli settlers approached a Palestinian village. Palestinian authorities in the West Bank said Friday’s shootings were provoked by the settlers who […]
NDTV: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation is a rare one. So rare, in fact, that to find a parallel, one has to rewind the clock all the way to 2018, when MJ Akbar stepped down from his post as Union Minister of State for External Affairs. Pradhan resigned on Saturday, marking a major victory for […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON, July 24 – U.S. missiles struck targets across Iran on Friday and President Donald Trump vowed “major military punishment” for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen, though he once again left open the door to a diplomatic deal with Iran. Two weeks after the collapse of an interim truce meant to end the war, Iranian […]
BBC: French authorities have ordered the evacuation of almost 60,000 people near Bordeaux, taking the total number of people told to flee wildfires in France and Spain to more than 220,000. Around 200,000 people have been evacuated in south-west France in the Gironde and Landes regions. French President Emmanuel Macron has mobilised the military to […]
BBC: At least 15 people have been killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, including 10 dead in ballistic missile strikes on an exhibition near Kyiv showcasing drone technology. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saidsome 100 people had been injured in thedaytime attack on the exhibition, attended by prominent members of the defence sector. Five people were […]
BBC: With an acting defence minister in place and a new commander-in-chief in charge of the military, Ukraine’s recent political crisis is over, right? Not so fast. The political fallout from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 15 July decision not to re-appoint Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, continues to reverberate about […]
BBC: At least four Palestinians and two Israelis have been killed in a shooting in the occupied West Bank – the deadliest single incident there in months. There are conflicting accounts of the sequence of events in the northern village of Tal. Palestinians told the BBC that residents confronted Jewish settlers who were attacking them. […]
