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Al-Sharaa’s trip, planned for November 10, will be first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House.United States President Donald Trump is to host Syria’s interim leader for talks this month in what would mark the first visit by a Syrian president to the US capital.Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said in a speech on Sunday that the visit will help open a “new chapter” in relations between Damascus and Washington.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Trump threatens to launch attacks in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’list 2 of 4Trump’s 7,500 refugee cap; echoing restrictive US immigration…
Israel has carried out regular attacks on southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreed with Hezbollah last November.An Israeli air strike has killed at least four people in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health, in an attack that put more pressure on a nearly yearlong truce with Hezbollah.In a statement on Saturday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said the Israeli attack in the town of Kfarsir in the Nabatieh district also wounded three.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3UN experts call for probe into Israeli ceasefire violations with Lebanonlist 2 of 3Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon…
Al-Sharaa’s trip, planned for November 10, will be first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House.United States President Donald Trump will host Syria’s interim leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, for talks on November 10, according to Washington’s envoy to Damascus, in what would mark the first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the US capital.Tom Barrack, the US envoy to Syria, told the Axios newspaper on Saturday that al-Sharaa is expected to sign an agreement to join an international US-led alliance against the ISIL (ISIS) group during his visit.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Trump threatens to launch…
Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.Authorities in Gaza say that Israel has only allowed a fraction of the humanitarian aid deliveries agreed on as part of the United States-brokered ceasefire into the enclave since the agreement came into effect last month.In a statement on Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that 3,203 commercial and aid trucks brought supplies into Gaza between October 10 and 31. This is an average of 145 aid trucks per day, or just 24 percent of the 600 trucks that are meant…
UNRWA says October ‘on track to be the most violent month’ since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.Israeli settlers have carried out more attacks against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, as the United Nations warned that this year’s olive harvest is on track to be the most violent in more than a decade.The Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported several incidents of settler violence on Saturday, including in fields close to the towns of Beita and Huwara, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and in Sinjil, a town near Ramallah.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1…
Two halls are dedicated to the 5,000 artefacts from the collection of King Tutankhamun.Cairo is set to open the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt hopes will celebrate the nation’s heritage and also revitalise its struggling economy and tourism sector.According to a statement from the Egyptian presidency, world leaders – including monarchs, and heads of state and government – were expected to attend the grand opening ceremony in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Egypt: 22 mummies move to new museum in grand paradelist 2 of 3Sites of Khmer Rouge execution, torture in…
Video of the alleged rape of Palestinian prisoner at Sde Temain went viral last year. Now the prosecutor who leaked it has quit.The Israeli military’s top lawyer, Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, has resigned after admitting to leaking footage showing the gang rape of a prisoner at the Sde Temain prison facility in August last year.The video of the rape had originally been leaked to the press in early August in the midst of a right-wing backlash following the arrest of a number of soldiers for the rape of a Palestinian prisoner.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Israel’s Sde Teiman…
Restoring education must start now under Palestinian leadership and with solidarity from abroad.It has been two weeks since world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh and declared, once again, that the path to peace in the Middle East had been found. As with previous such declarations, the Palestinians, the people who must live that peace, were left out.Today, Israel holds the fragile ceasefire hostage while the world is fixated on the search for the remaining bodies of its dead captives. There is no talk of the Palestinian right to search for and honour their own dead, to mourn publicly the loss.The…
Some elements of the Iranian state are in favour of relatively relaxing social controls, while others wish to cede no ground.Tehran, Iran – President Masoud Pezeshkian unveiled a “Gen Z adviser” about a month ago, posing for a smiling photo with him that went viral online.The adviser, Amirreza Ahmadi, told local media that he sees his mission as listening to the youth of Iran, “from Tehran to the borders of this country”, going so far as to share his mobile number.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Is Trump pushing for regime change in Venezuela; where else is he…
Sudanese people are being hunted down, humiliated and killed by RSF fighters, according to survivors and aid agencies.Starved and abused civilians have recounted harrowing stories after fleeing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in western Sudan’s Darfur, while thousands more remain missing.The capital of North Darfur state was the last Sudanese army stronghold in the vast region before falling to the RSF after 18 months of siege on Sunday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3War in Sudan: Humanitarian, fighting, control developments, October 2025list 2 of 3Sudanese activist sees his executed uncles in RSF videos from el-Fasherlist 3 of 3Sudanese…