Singer Eden Golan secured her spot with a performance of ‘Hurricane’, as thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied in Sweden’s Malmo.

Israel’s prime minister struck a defiant tone against US President Joe Biden after the US withheld a shipment of bombs as a warning to its top Middle East ally not to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Head of State Protection Department was dismissed after two of his officers were detained for allegedly passing secret information to Russia’s FSB security service.

Success of the US$17 billion Iraq Development Road depends on Iraq-Turkey ties, which have been fraught over oil exports and militant issues, analysts say.

Russian president uses to speech to warn that his nuclear forces were ‘always’ on alert and that Russia would not tolerate any threats from the West.

It was the latest demonstration of the country’s strong support for Palestinians, which has also driven a boycott movement that has taken a toll on targeted businesses.

Talks are still under way in Egypt as negotiators seek a pause in Israel’s seven-month-old offensive.

Israeli forces massed tanks close to built-up areas of Rafah, after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launched a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.

So far, 520 bodies have been recovered from seven mass graves found at three different hospitals across Gaza in recent weeks, Gaza’s Civil Defence agency said.

Long-opposed to the measure and having criticised Moscow’s mobilisation of prisoners to fill its ranks, Kyiv has recently U-turned amid fresh Russian advances on the battlefield.

The Rafah crossing has been a vital conduit for humanitarian aid since the start of the war and is the only place where people can enter and exit.

As Russia leverages its advantage in ammunition and manpower to exploit Ukraine’s dwindling stocks of weaponry, it has also increasingly embraced TikTok as part of its parallel information war.

The Biden administration has been trying to head off a full-scale assault by the Israelis against Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinian have sought refuge from combat elsewhere in Gaza.

Readers discuss the need to stop the anti-war demonstrations from escalating, the morally superior stance of the protesting students, and the difficult choice confronting the government

The junta and the resistance have a limited window to make gains or hold their ground, as rain-laden monsoon clouds begin rolling across Myanmar around early June.

Relaxed mountain setting chosen so Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron can speak frankly on myriad mutual grievances and grounds for cooperation.

The suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest Pakistan in March, killing six people.

The head of Ukraine’s state security service said the failed assassination attempt was supposed to be a ‘gift to Putin’ to mark his inauguration on Tuesday

Beijing and Paris issue statement denouncing planned Israeli offensive against southern Gaza city following talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

UN agencies said on Tuesday that the two main crossings into the southern Gaza Strip remain shut, virtually cutting off the enclave from outside aid, with very few stores stationed inside.

Putin won a landslide victory in a presidential election in March, more than two years after he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine.

Israel sent tanks into Rafah in war-torn Gaza’s far south and took control of the border crossing with Egypt, as ceasefire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge.

As well as shining a spotlight on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Palestinian West Bank, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 will for the first time show a movie made completely by AI.

The decision to invite Lockheed Martin and BAE to a government-backed expo has raised questions about the consistency of PM Anwar Ibrahim’s criticism of the Gaza war with the actions of his government.

Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands.

The Ivy League institution said it would “forego the universitywide ceremony that is scheduled for May 15” and hold a series of smaller events instead.