Mon 21 July 2025: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday delivered his country’s formal response to a US proposal aimed at disarming the Hezbollah group in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, a senior political source told Anadolu. The presidency confirmed that Aoun met with US Envoy Tom Barrack at the presidential palace […]
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Sun 20 July 2025: Pope Leo called for an end to the ‘barbarity of war‘ on Sunday as he spoke of his profound pain over an Israeli strike on the sole Catholic church in Gaza. Three people died and several were injured, including the parish priest, in the strike on the Holy Family Church compound in Gaza City on Thursday. […]
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Sun 20 July 2025: – Trump’s policies triggered back-and-forth reactions in US stock markets: first falling at record pace before soaring to record highs – Some major tech firms saw steep declines before climbing to all-time highs; gold surged, oil dropped Six months into his second term, US President Donald Trump has returned to the […]
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Sun 20 July 2025: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Sunday once again accused Israeli authorities of using starvation as a weapon of war against the civilian population of Gaza. In a statement on X, UNRWA said: “The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in Gaza. Among them are 1 million children.” It renewed […]
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Sun 20 July 2025: The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) has lifted the tsunami alert for Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula following three earthquakes, the largest registering a magnitude of 7.4, that struck off the nearby Pacific coast. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the quakes, which included magnitudes of 6.7 and 5.0, occurred on […]
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Sat 19 July 2025: Anton Gorelkin, First Deputy Chair of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, stated in a written announcement that WhatsApp, as a Meta product, could soon be included in the list of apps from “unfriendly countries” subject to restrictions. He commented, “It’s time for WhatsApp to prepare to leave the Russian market.” […]
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US Secretary of Defense attacks media for questioning Iran strikes. Sat 19 July 2025: Citing intelligence assessments, NBC News and Washington Post report that only Fordow site was destroyed in US attack. Washington, DC – New media reports in the United States, citing intelligence assessments, have cast doubt over President Donald Trump’s assertion that Washington’s military strikes last […]
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Sat 19 July 2025: President Donald Trump said at least five planes were shot down during the latest hostilities between India and Pakistan in May, insisting it was the US which “stopped the war” between the two nuclear-armed nations. “Planes were being shot out of the air … I think five jets were shot down, […]
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Sat 19 July 2025: The declaration has been agreed by representatives of both sides in Doha, weeks after talks in Washington. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the M23 rebel group have signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end fighting in eastern Congo. The declaration was signed on Saturday between representatives […]
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Fri 18 July 2025: India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau urges against drawing ‘conclusions through selective, unverified reporting’ A black-box recording has revealed that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed last month, killing 261 people, turned off the fuel switches after taking off from the western state of Gujarat in India, according to […]
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