Category: 2. World

A new opinion poll shows that a majority of Jews in the occupied territories are either “not so troubled” or “not troubled at all” by the reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in the besieged…

Twenty people have been killed and more than 30 injured in central Gaza after four lorries overturned on a crowd, the Hamas-run civil defence agency says.

Crowds rushed to the vehicles on a road south east of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday evening. They…

Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Seyed Sattar Hashemi, said that in line with expanding technology diplomacy and exporting Iran’s technical capabilities to other countries, a fiber optic production facility has…

The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff for talks, days before the White House’s deadline for Russia to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or potentially face…

A minute of silence was held in Hiroshima on Wednesday during a ceremony to mark 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony and urged all countries to…

Japan has marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with solemn ceremonies that also underscored deepening frustration and criticism of the United States’ continued reliance on nuclear weapons and…

A meeting between US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russia’s Vladimir Putin is under way at the Kremlin, Russian media have said.

Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Wednesday as Donald Trump’s deadline for Russia to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine looms.

The US…