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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tel Aviv (IANS) As the indirect mediatory talks between Hamas and Israel are progressing in Cairo, Hamas has expressed concern at temporary ceasefire and have informed the mediators that it wants a permanent end to the war.
According to Egyptian…
Guangzhou (IANS) The death toll from the collapse of a portion of a road in China's Guangdong province has risen to 48, authorities said.
Thirty injured people are receiving hospital treatment, and none are in life-threatening condition,…
Cairo/Tel Aviv (IANS/DPA) During the ongoing negotiations in Cairo on a ceasefire in the Gaza war, details have emerged about a proposal for an agreement submitted by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The Wall Street Journal reported on…