Category: international

Brushing aside an impassioned plea by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a diplomatically isolated United States has again vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel conflict.

Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Saturday hit out at United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, accusing him of standing with Palestinian terror group Hamas in his appeal before the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The attack took place before dawn when the rockets landed in the vicinity of the embassy in the Green Zone, which also houses some of the main Iraqi government offices, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Canada's decision to double the amount of money that international students need to show to get a study visa will impact students from India the most as they make up about 40 per cent of all international students in Canada.

Colonel Elad Goren , head of the Civil department at COGAT, said that Kerem Shalom would be opened for inspection and would allow the flow of humanitarian aid after inspection by UN agencies.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a footage of hostages being forcibly taken to the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza following the unprecedented attack on October 7.

According to sources in the Israel Prime Minister's office, the Israel government has rejected the suggestion of the Palestinian Authority controlling the rule of Gaza strip after the war.

Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has said that it is his Hindu faith that led him to the presidential campaign, and that as a president, he wants to make faith, family, hard work, patriotism "cool" in the US again.

A joint report by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) has revealed that the police had foiled an attempt by the Hamas terrorists to launch an attack on the city of Tel Aviv on October 7 as part of its massive assault on the Jewish nation.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it lost contact with Al-Shifa hospital and that children and aged people were suffering in the hospital due to Israeli attack.

The Israeli Defence Minister, while addressing soldiers alongside the Commander of the IDF's 91 division and other senior officers serving in the region, said that Hezbollah was no longer making just provocations but was also indulging in aggressions. 

The summit highlights the first trip by an Iranian leader to Saudi Arabia in 11 years after the two countries restored diplomatic relations in March. Raisi shook hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

The RNC reminded candidates they signed a pledge not to participate in debates like the one in Des Moines, which is not sanctioned by the national party, NBC said quoting a letter it obtained from the RNC.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a civil war in the Conservative party over the future of Home Secretary Suella Braverman, as he held off sacking her for saying police were biased for allowing a pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day.

In a key step in delivery of the Illegal Migration Act, the UK government plans to add India and Georgia to a list of safe states to speed up the process of returning people who have travelled from either country illegally.

The Military Intelligence of Israel and the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) have roughly estimated that the Hamas was holding 180 hostages kidnapped on October 7.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday said that it has destroyed 150 underground tunnel structures of Hamas. The IDF in a statement said its tanks are inside Gaza Strip since Friday night.

Chinnaiah Karthik, a 26-year-old cleaner, pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of aggravated rape for his attack on the woman at about 1.30 am on May 4 in Kranji, a suburb in northwestern Singapore.

India's opposition to the resolution on Friday was because it failed to condemn Hamas for its terrorist attack and the Assembly rejected an amendment supported by New Delhi that would have named the terror group.

The Palestine Red Cross Society (PRCS) have in a statement on Friday late night (Israeli Ty) said that they have completely lost contact with the operations room in Gaza Strip and all three teams operating there.

The US Vice-President Kamala Harris has promised the families of the missing persons and hostages of Hamas that the US government was doing everything possible to bring them back.

The IDF spokesmen confirmed that they had appealed to the people in the Gaza Strip to evacuate only to understand that the Hamas teleosts had blocked the access routes to Southern strip.

Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have conducted joint raids starting Wednesday night that resulted in the arrest of 60 persons on charges of affiliation to Hamas.

Hezbollah's Al-Manar television network published a handwritten letter Wednesday purported to have been written by the organisation's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, media reported.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday said that in a joint operation with the Shin Bet intelligence agency, it killed Hamas commander Taysir Mubashir in Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.