Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dispatched a negotiation team to Qatar for renewed talks over a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release, responding to Hamas’s latest signal that it is ready to engage “immediately and seriously” in fresh dialogue.  The

Elon Musk has announced the formation of a new political entity—the America Party—marking a dramatic shift in his political stance following a public fallout with President Donald Trump.  The tech billionaire made the declaration on his platform X, positioning the

In one of the deadliest natural disasters to strike central Texas in recent memory, flash floods have claimed 51 lives, including 15 children, and left dozens missing.  The catastrophe unfolded on Friday, with Kerr County emerging as the epicenter of the devastation—43

An extensive search and rescue operation is underway in Texas following catastrophic flash floods that have claimed at least 24 lives and left many children missing at a Christian summer camp. The Guadalupe River surged dramatically—rising 26 feet (7.9m) in under an

A five-story building collapse in Pakistan on Friday killed at least five people and left six injured, with more victims trapped under the rubble, police said. Rescuers and residents in the mega port city of Karachi worked together to pull people from the debris after the incident at

Pakistan’s army said Friday it had killed 30 militants attempting to cross the border from Afghanistan over the last three days, after 16 soldiers died in a suicide attack in the same frontier region last week. The militants belonged to the Pakistan Taliban or its affiliated

Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Moscow’s special representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, told the state news agency Ria Novosti that the government had “recognised” the Taliban. In a

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict's

US President Donald Trump has announced a new trade deal with Vietnam that imposes a 20 percent tariff on Vietnamese exports to the country, significantly lower than previously proposed rates.  The agreement, disclosed on Wednesday, arrives just days before a July 9 deadline to

At least four were killed and dozens remain unaccounted for after a ferry carrying 65 passengers sank off the coast of Bali, Indonesian authorities confirmed Thursday (July 3). The vessel, identified as KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya, went down shortly after departing from Banyuwangi port in

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday said that his government is intensifying its efforts to confine weapons solely to state institutions and to extend its authority across all areas of the country as part of a broader push to advance the implementation of a ceasefire.

The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, said on Wednesday that the Buddhist institution will continue after his death. "I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue," he said in a video broadcast in Tibetan language from the mountainous town of

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law on Monday prohibiting individuals from wearing clothing in public places that covers their faces, joining a trend in several Central Asian countries to restrict forms of Islamic dress. The text of the law says clothing that

A pro-Palestinian Georgetown University student from India, detained by President Donald Trump’s administration but then released on a judge’s order, can remain free while fighting deportation efforts, a US appeals court ruled on Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the

US President Donald Trump urged Hamas on Tuesday to accept a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, saying that Israel had agreed to finalize such a deal, as its forces also stepped up operations in the Palestinian territory.  Trump, in a post on social media, said his representatives had met

A drastic reduction in U.S. humanitarian assistance during Donald Trump’s presidency may result in more than 14 million preventable deaths by 2030, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal.  The report underscores that nearly one-third of these projected

Iran has urged the United States to formally rule out any further military strikes if Washington seeks a return to diplomatic negotiations, Tehran's deputy foreign minister told the BBC. Majid Takht-Ravanchi revealed that the Trump administration, via intermediaries, had expressed

Large crowds of mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran’s capital Tehran as the country held a state funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month’s aerial war with Israel. At least 16

President Donald Trump said Saturday the United States was “not going to stand” for the continued prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges. “The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other

Nineteen people—most of them teenage girls—lost their lives on Friday in a tragic road accident in Egypt’s Menoufia province, when a truck collided with a minibus transporting workers to their job site. The fatal crash occurred in the early morning hours on a regional