The Palestinian Authority (PA) could return to power in the Gaza Strip only if a “comprehensive political solution” is found to the Israel-Palestine conflict, according to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas on Sunday met with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is

Australian PM Anthony Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping will soon sit down for a drought-breaking bilateral meeting in Beijing. Mr Albanese, who landed in Shanghai on Saturday, is the first Australian leader to visit China since 2016. The visit is seen as a key moment in

The US secretary of state has arrived in Turkey as he continues his diplomatic tour of the region - and pushes for a pause in the fighting. Speaking earlier in Baghdad, Antony Blinken said regional leaders would "welcome" a humanitarian pause in Gaza. Israel says it needs

Former President Obama (D) said “nobody’s hands are clean” amid conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. “[I]f you want to solve the problem, then, you have to take in the whole truth,” Obama said in a Pod Save America podcast clip

A demand by Jordan and Egypt for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was rejected by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Amman on Saturday. Blinken said that a truce would be counterproductive, and made clear the furthest he would go was support for

A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia's coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins. Italy’s culture ministry said Saturday that the diver alerted authorities, who sent divers assigned to an art protection squad along

North Korea has created a new holiday to celebrate the anniversary of the successful test launch of its Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile last year, state media reported Sunday. On Nov. 18, 2022, Pyongyang carried out what is believed to be the first full flight test of the

More than 600 people have been executed by Iran so far this year, already the highest figure in eight years with two months of 2023 to go, a rights group said Friday. There were nine executions in a single day in a prison outside Tehran this week, while two people face execution after

Nine terrorists were killed in a clearance operation after the Pakistan Army foiled a terrorist attack on the Mianwali Training Air Base of the Pakistan Air Force in the early hours of Saturday, the military’s media wing said. The development comes on the heels of a series of

At least 13 people have been killed in a blast outside Gaza City's biggest hospital, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says. BBC Verify has verified graphic videos showing badly injured and possibly dead people lying outside the hospital. The Israeli military has confirmed

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Beijing on Saturday, a little over 50 years since his predecessor Gough Whitlam’s historic journey to China. But while Albanese may be following in the steps of Whitlam, who forged ties with China in 1972, he was careful

Summary A UN official has said there is increasingly little the organisation can do to protect Gazans trying to shelter from the fighting. "Let's be very clear, there is no place that is safe in Gaza right now," says Thomas White, of the UN agency for Palestinian

At least 128 people were killed in a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake that originated in Nepal's Jajarkot district Friday midnight. The earthquake had its epicentre at the Jajarkot district's Lamidanda. Eighty people were killed and more than 140 people sustained injuries in the

At least 32 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran, authorities have said. The blaze erupted early on Friday in Langarud, a city in the Caspian Sea province of Gilan north of Tehran. Esmail Sadeghi, a provincial chief

Pakistan will hold their delayed national elections on February 8, 2024, the electoral commission said Thursday. The announcement was made following a meeting between President Arif Alvi and members of the Election Commission Pakistan (ECP). "It was unanimously decided that the

Bahrain has recalled its ambassador to Israel and suspended economic ties with Tel Aviv, the country’s parliament announced on Thursday. The statement published on the Bahraini parliament website confirmed that the Israeli ambassador had left Bahrain, while Bahrain called back

Nearly half the countries across the world are seeing a decline in the robustness of their democracy, an international think tank said on Thursday. In its annual report, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) said that 85 out of 173 countries surveyed

The boss and three other officials of an Indonesian firm whose cough syrup was linked to the deaths of over 200 children have been sentenced to jail. They were handed two-year prison sentences and fined 1bn Indonesian rupiah ($63,029; £51,7130) each. The firm, Afi Farma, was

Extremists in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 37 villagers in two different attacks, residents said Wednesday, highlighting once again how deadly islamic extremist rebels have remained in their 14-year insurgency in the hard-hit region. The extremists targeted villagers in Yobe

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologised for colonial-era killings in Tanzania during Germany’s rule and vowed to raise awareness of the atrocities in his country, in a step towards “communal healing” of the bloody past. “I would like to ask for