Category: 2. World

Around 13.5 million eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots in the general elections, with polling stations open from 7.30 am to 9 pm (0600-2000GMT), local media reported.

In several cities, including Zwolle, Arnhem, and Castricum,…

TEHRAN – As expected, the Gaza ceasefire brokered under U.S. President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” has once exposed itself as a cruel illusion after the Israeli occupation regime’s most violent bombing campaign since it took effect on…

TEHRAN – Israel’s war on Gaza, launched on October 7, 2023, with the declared aim of defeating Hamas, has ended not in triumph but in trauma. After two years of relentless bombardment, mass displacement, and regional destabilization, the…

TEHRAN – China stands at a decisive moment in its modernization trajectory. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, concluded last week in Beijing, provided a precise and forward-looking…

Tariq Fakhoury, a Palestinian landowner whose property was targeted, said this was the third assault on the area by settlers in recent months, Wafa news agency reported. 

The Ramallah-based Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission reported…

Speaking to Associated Press on Wednesday, the head of the IAEA said that Iran does not appear to be actively enriching uranium but that the agency has recently detected renewed movement at the country’s nuclear sites.

He claimed that despite…

The United Nations has called Israeli strikes on Gaza “appalling” and urged all sides not to let peace “slip from our grasp”.

“Reports that over 100 Palestinians were killed overnight in a wave of Israeli air strikes mainly on residential…

Hamas has called on the mediators of the ceasefire agreement to pressure Israel to stop its attacks and abide by the deal, while also accusing the US in being complicit in helping Israel “impose new realities by force” in Gaza.

“The…

Civil aviation regulator Rosaviatsia claimed 13 airports across Russia, including three in Moscow, and annexed Crimea were forced to pause operations for security checks, The Moscow Times reported. 

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air…