Key mediator Qatar says Israel and Hamas are at their ‘closest point’ yet to a ceasefire deal in Gaza
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Key mediator Qatar says Israel and Hamas are at their ‘closest point’ yet to a ceasefire deal in Gaza.
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Key mediator Qatar says Israel and Hamas are at their ‘closest point’ yet to a ceasefire deal in Gaza.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells, a small window in the metal doors their only opening to the world. All are alleged members of the Islamic State group, captured during the final days of the extremists' so-called caliphate declared in large parts of Iraq and Syria. The Gweiran Prison, now called Panorama has held about 4,500 IS-linked detainees for years.
Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare for "voluntary" departures from Gaza, as US President Donald Trump ruled out sending troops to the territory."I have instructed the IDF (military) to prepare a plan to enable voluntary departure for Gaza residents," Katz said, adding they could go "to any country willing to accept them".
STORY: Hundreds of Bangladeshis clambered upon the remains of a building in Dhaka which housed a museum belonging to the family of ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday (February 6).It was vandalized and torched the previous night by student protesters, who voiced fury over her recent speech on social media.Hasina urged the people of Bangladesh to defy the interim government.She accuses it of seizing power in an unconstitutional manner.Many people were seen hammering down structures and chiselling at brick walls, as they took apart what was left of the building.In August last year, Hasina was forced to flee to neighboring India, as protests against her rule killed more than 1,000 people.Since her departure, the government has struggled to maintain law and order.A symbol of the country's establishment, the house is where her father declared Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971.He and most of his family were assassinated at the house in 1975. Hasina, who survived the attack, transformed the building into a museum dedicated to her father's legacy.
U.S. President Donald Trump's pitch to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after permanently displacing its residents was met with unified anger and concern from Palestinians in Gaza Wednesday.Trump raised the prospect of relocating more than two million Palestinians living there during a visit to Washington Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He suggested it had become uninhabitable after nearly 16 months of war between Israel and Hamas.Hanan Al-Shennawi said tha
Trump's plans are likely to heighten fears among Palestinians in Gaza, which had a pre-war population of around 2.3 million, of being driven out of the coastal strip, and stoke concern in Arab states that have long worried about the destabilising impact of any such exodus. Palestinians have long been haunted by what they call the "Nakba", or catastrophe, when 700,000 of them were dispossessed from their homes during the war that surrounded the creation of Israel in 1948. Israel disputes the account that they were forced out.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed US President Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza, as Israel’s army was ordered to prepare plans for large numbers of Palestinians to leave the territory.
The M23 armed group and allied Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, days before the Rwandan and Congolese presidents are due to attend a crisis summit.As Goma counted its dead, Vivian van de Perre, deputy chief of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), gave an updated toll from the battle for the city.
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels took up arms against the Congolese government last Wednesday
Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration's early actions, decrying everything from the president's immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “I’m appalled by democracy’s changes in the last, well, specifically two weeks — but it started a long time ago,” Margaret Wilmeth said at a protest outside the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
The former military officer, previously known only as ‘Caesar’, smuggled evidence of thousands of deaths out of the country
President Donald Trump suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Trump’s brazen proposal Tuesday appears certain to roil the next stage of talks meant to extend the tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and secure the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza. The provocative comments came as talks are ramping up this week with the promise of surging humanitarian aid and reconstruction supplies to help the people of Gaza recover after more than 15 months of devastating conflict.
Residents in the strip talked to Euronews during a protest against the US president's intentions in the central town of Deir al-Balah.View on euronews
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Hamas war holds, but many will find there is nothing left and no way to rebuild. Israeli bombardment and ground operations have transformed entire neighborhoods in several cities into rubble-strewn wastelands, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching away in all directions. The agreement for the phased ceasefire and the release of hostages held by Hamas-led militants does not say who will govern Gaza after the war, or whether Israel and Egypt will lift a blockade limiting the movement of people and goods that they imposed when Hamas seized power in 2007.
When Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean prisoners of war last month, it provided the first undeniable proof of Pyongyang’s direct involvement in the war against Ukraine. It also shed some light on the mindset and training of the conscripted North Korean soldiers sent to fight Russia’s war a continent away from their home. Highly disciplined, ready to die but also very young and with little battlefield experience they elicited curiosity and even some pity from the Ukrainian soldiers who captured them during two separate missions on Jan. 9.
The gunman who killed 10 people and wounded several others in Sweden may have been connected with the adult education centre where he opened fire, police have said. Sweden has been left reeling as more details emerge, with the names of victims yet to be confirmed by police. In an update on Thursday, police said the gunman - who has been named in local media as Rickard Andersson - may have attended the education centre as a student.
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congolese authorities said its troops and its allies clashed with the M23 rebel group, supported by Rwandan soldiers, in the mining town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu. "Our positions have been attacked," the spokesperson for the Congolese government, Patrick Muyaya, told RFI, adding that the M23 has broken the ceasefire it had unilaterally declared on 3 February 2025.The latest clashes began in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday in the Kalehe t
The UN chief warned Wednesday against ethnic cleansing in Gaza as he rejected US President Donald Trump's bombshell proposal for the United States to take control of the Palestinian territory and displace all its people.UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, asked specifically about the Trump proposal, said "any forced displacement of people is tantamount to ethnic cleansing."
Pro-Palestinian activists were planning a demonstration through London as the Oct 7 massacre was taking place, it has emerged.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's plan for the United States to "take over" Gaza, permanently displacing Palestinians who live there and creating the "Riviera of the Middle East," has upset Arab nations and Western allies and would overturn decades of American policy in the region. At a news conference on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Trump said he wanted to demolish the remaining structures in Gaza and transform the territory under U.S. "ownership." He proposed transforming the seaside enclave into a resort that would draw people from around the globe and resettling Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan.