Fri 10 October 2025: Jorge Moreira da Silva, director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, has told Al Jazeera Arabic that approximately $52bn will be needed to rebuild the Gaza Strip. Da Silva said 80 percent of the Gaza Strip’s infrastructure had been destroyed by the conflict and the process of removing the […]
Continue Reading
Fri 10 October 2025: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Kyiv must significantly scale up production, delivery and employment of long-range missiles and drones to increase pressure on Russia and help bring about peace. Zelensky told military leaders that Kyiv has been working to improve the quality of its long-range weapons and is expanding production, funding and training to boost […]
Continue Reading
Fri 10 October 2025: A Washington Post poll found that 61 percent of American Jews say Israel is guilty of war crimes in the besieged territory, and nearly 40 percent consider them genocidal. The report, published on Sunday, revealed that many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza. “The findings are striking given […]
Continue Reading
Fri 10 October 2025: Four-fifths (80%) of people in the UK are worried about older friends and family being scammed online, with some believing that bank closures could push more over-65s towards fraudsters. Bank closures have ratcheted up concerns, with 61% of people surveyed for Virgin Media O2 saying they are forcing older people to […]
Continue Reading
Fri 10 October 2025: The United Nations will have to cut roughly a quarter of its peacekeeping personnel in the coming months due to funding shortfalls, in particular caused by a lack of US financing. A senior unnamed UN official cited by Reuters stated that the organization “will have to repatriate… around 25% of our […]
Continue Reading
Fri 10 October 2025: US auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into nearly 2.9 million Tesla vehicles following reports of crashes and traffic violations linked to the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that its Office of Defects Investigation is examining Tesla models equipped with “FSD (Supervised)” and “FSD (Beta)” systems. The software, marketed as […]
Continue Reading
Israeli PM Netanyahu meeting with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and the U.S. president Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Fri 10 October 2025: The Israeli government has approved the plan “for the release of all captives”, Netanyahu’s office says in a brief post on social media. Senior US administration officials on the nitty-gritty of what’s […]
Continue Reading
Thu 09 October 2025: You’re about to recycle your laptop or your phone, so you delete all your photos and personal files. Maybe you even reset the device to factory settings. You probably think your sensitive data is now safe. But there is more to be done: hackers may still be able to retrieve passwords, […]
Continue Reading
Thu 09 October 2025: Pope Leo urged global news agencies on Thursday never to betray their duty to telling the truth by focusing on “click-bait” articles and to exercise caution in using artificial intelligence tools in their reporting. “Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it … and from the degrading practice of […]
Continue Reading
Thu 09 October 2025: Interim Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Thursday arrived in the Indian capital New Delhi for a week-long visit, officials said. It is the first visit by any top Afghan diplomat since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021. Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal confirmed the arrival of Muttaqi in Delhi, writing on […]
Continue Reading
