Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza ceasefire will not go ahead until Hamas provides the names of the first hostages it plans to release. In a statement, Hamas says the delay is due to "technical field reasons". According to the ceasefire

A petrol tanker truck exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had gathered to take the spilt fuel, the national road safety authority said. “The death toll stands at 70 so far,” Kumar Tsukwam, the head of the Federal Road Safety

A South Korean court has approved a request for a detention warrant to be issued for arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol, the Seoul Western District Court has said.  The approval on Sunday extends the period he can be held in custody as authorities investigate him on suspicion of

A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin on Sunday morning, mediator Qatar said after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the truce and prisoner release deal. Since Qatar and the United States, which mediated the deal along with Egypt, announced the agreement on Wednesday, Israeli

The health ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that 23 people were killed in the Palestinian territory in the previous 24 hours, taking the overall war death toll to 46,899. The ministry said that at least 110,725 people have been wounded in more than 15 months of war between Israel and

Two prominent Iranian Supreme Court judges have been killed in an attack at the headquarters of the court, according to official judiciary sources. The victims were identified as Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh. A third judge was also wounded in the attack, which took place at

Civilians in Gaza are waiting anxiously for a pause in 15 relentless months of war, after Israel's cabinet approved a temporary ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas. Israel has pounded the strip with air strikes, killing at least 113 people since the deal was first agreed

France’s President Emmanuel Macron Friday announced that Paris would in coming weeks host an international reconstruction conference after a war between militant group Hezbollah and Israel. After more than two years of a political vacuum at the top of the small Mediterranean

Israel’s security cabinet has ratified a ceasefire deal to exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians in Israeli jails and pause the 15-month war for an initial six weeks. The approval came after an unexpected delay that sparked fears that last-minute

An accountability court in Pakistan on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 14 years in prison after he was convicted along with his wife of receiving land as a bribe from a real-estate tycoon, Khan’s party said. The case involved a charitable entity, Al-Qadir

Around 50 Pakistanis have died on a migrant boat, while trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean illegally to reach Europe, according to an NGO and victims’ families. The boat with 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis on board, left the West African country of Mauritania for

Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes hours after the ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, killing 32 people in an attack late on Wednesday.  The strikes in Gaza City continued overnight into Thursday morning, destroying houses in Rafah in the south, Nuseirat in

Thousands of islanders are set to be evacuated after a volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia, spewing a towering column of smoke and ash into the atmosphere, officials said on Wednesday. Mount Ibu, located on the remote island of Halmahera, erupted for a fifth time this year on

Mediator Qatar has announced that Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement to halt the war in Gaza and exchange Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani announced the agreement

Israel and Hamas have agreed a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal following 15 months of war, mediators Qatar and the US say. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said the agreement would come into effect on Sunday so long as it was approved by the

Indus river, one of oldest and longest rivers, has been discovered to be hoarding an extraordinary amount of gold, leaving everyone in awe. The massive gold reserve has been found by Pakistan in Punjab province.  The Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) has identified around 32.6

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal miners, police said Wednesday. Authorities began trying to remove the bodies and bring up survivors on Monday, after residents voiced fears that over 100 people

An Israeli military drone reportedly fired three missiles at a group of people in the Jenin refugee camp. Smoke rises during clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. A Palestinian teenager and three

South Korean authorities have arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces charges of insurrection following an attempt to impose martial law. Yoon is now at the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) - he said he agreed to the interrogation "even though it is an illegal

Tulip Siddiq, the Treasury minister, has resigned on Tuesday (January 14). She says Laurie Magnus, the PM’s ethics adviser, has said she has not broken the ministerial code. But she is going because if she were to stay she would be a “distraction” to the government.