After Hamas rocket attack, 16 killed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah

Tel Aviv (IANS) The Hamas health department said that 16 people were killed in an Israeli air attack on Monday.

Media has reported that nine people from one family and seven members from another family were killed in the air attack.

The…

Israeli army carries out airstrikes on Rafah

Gaza (IANS) The Israeli army carried out on Monday airstrikes on areas in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, said Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses.

Sources and eyewitnesses told Xinhua that Israeli airstrikes created fire…

Amid Cairo peace talks, Israel steps up efforts to hit Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

Tel Aviv (IANS) Amid the ongoing peace talks in Cairo to reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the former has stepped up its efforts to assassinate Hamas military commander Yahya Sinwar, widely believed to be the man behind the October…

Cannot accept Hamas's demand to withdraw from Gaza, asserts Netanyahu

Tel Aviv (IANS) Amid ongoing talks for a 'pause' and mounting demands for the release of hostages, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asserted that his country will not accept Hamas's demands to end the Gaza war,…

Ukraine attacks Crimea with long-range missiles: Russia

Kyiv (IANS/DPA) Russian air defence systems destroyed four US-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles fired at the Crimean Peninsula by Ukrainian forces, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday morning.

The scope and impact of the attack…

Indian sailors still on stranded ship off US port city after 35 days

Washington (IANS) They would have been in Colombo in Sri Lanka, their destination, a couple of days ago, and would have been on their way home. But they remain on a cargo ship off the coast of the US port city of Baltimore.

The 20 Indian members…

UN spokesperson declines to react to Biden's claim that India's economy stalling due to 'xenophobia'

United Nations (IANS) A UN spokesperson has declined to react to an assertion by US President Joe Biden that India was "stalling so badly economically" because it was "xenophobic" and not taking in immigrants.

"I wouldn't comment on what…

Israel carries out air strikes on rocket launching site in Gaza Strip

Tel Aviv (IANS/DPA) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday it carried out an airstrike on a rocket launch site in the southern Gaza Strip.

Fighter jets hit the militant site near the city of Khan Younis after a rocket was fired from…

North Korean economic delegation returns from Iran amid suspected military ties

Seoul (IANS) A North Korean economic delegation has returned home from Iran, Pyongyang's state media said Friday, ending a rare trip that raised suspicions of possible weapons cooperation between the two nations.

The delegation, headed…

6.0-magnitude quake hits Philippines

Manila  (IANS) A 6.0 magnitude offshore earthquake rocked Leyte province in the central Philippines on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

The institute said the quake, which occurred at 6:16 p.m. local time…