Russia and Ukraine have completed the first phase of what is expected to be the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the war, with almost 800 people released on Friday.
The swap started on Friday and will continue on Saturday and Sunday,…
Category: 2. World
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Trump threatens a 50% tariff on the EU
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union, citing a lack of progress in current trade negotiations.
“Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade…
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Hamas censures expanded Israeli military aggression in Jenin, attack on foreign diplomats
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly denounced an expanded bulldozing and destruction campaign by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, which has now entered its 123rd consecutive day.
In a statement released on…
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Chaos spreads as desperate Gazans wait for food aid
Rushdie AbualoufGaza correspondent
Alice CuddyReporting from Jerusalem
EPAThe limited amount of food that trickled into Gaza after an Israeli blockade was partly lifted has sparked chaotic scenes, as hunger continues to spread.
Bakeries distributing…
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Russia intercepts over 100 Ukrainian drones overnight
Russian air defense systems have shot down 112 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported.
In a statement on Friday morning, the ministry announced that more than a dozen regions in Russia…
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Man steering Norway ship that crashed into a garden was asleep, police say
Sofia Ferreira SantosBBC News
NTB/Jan Langhaugvia via ReutersThe huge ship crashed into a local resident’s front garden on Thursday The watch officer of a huge container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he…
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Iran Armed Forces warns US ‘mischief’ to unleash another Vietnam, Afghanistan
Iran’s Armed Forces say the United States is perpetrating miscalculations again by inciting the regional countries against the Islamic Republic, but warn that the country is well-guarded against any American…
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Yemenis hold massive nationwide pro-Palestine rallies
TEHRAN, May 23 (MNA) – Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis rallied across major cities on Friday to express their solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and denounce Israeli military aggression on Yemen.
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Kangaroo ‘tries to drown’ man in Australia floodwaters
A “really muscly” kangaroo “tried to drown” a man in Australia, after the two got into a punch-up.
Don James is said to have found himself fighting for his life as the marsupial held him down in floodwaters which had pooled on the side of the road…
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Israeli forces kill 60 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 hours
A number of martyrs from the Israeli army’s attacks on the Gaza Strip has reached 53,822 since the outbreak of war on October 07, 2023.
The Palestinian medical institution also stated that the total number of people injured in the Israeli…
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