[ad_1] The United Nations has called on Iran and Israel to show restraint, with the threat of a full-scale direct conflict between the pair looming over the Middle East. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the adversaries at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Sunday not to further escalate tension in the region with…
[ad_1] Nearly three months of conflict have claimed almost 22,000 lives in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and devastated much of the besieged territory. Despite relentless global demands for a ceasefire, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Monday the army was preparing for “prolonged fighting” expected to last “throughout this year”. On Monday…
[ad_1] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that the bombarded Gaza Strip was becoming a “graveyard for children,” as he urged an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. “The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent with every passing hour,” he told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York….
[ad_1] China has deployed six warships to the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Hamas escalates, according to media reports. The 44th naval escort task force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was involved in routine operations in the region and spent several days in Oman last week. The Chinese warships left Muscat…
[ad_1] Algerian footballer Youcef Atal has become the latest Muslim footballer to be reprimanded by a European football club after France’s Nice suspended him for reposting an allegedly anti-Jewish message on social media related to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. The move, on Wednesday, came less than two days after French prosecutors launched a preliminary investigation…
[ad_1] Western allies kicked off a major naval exercise in the Baltic Sea amid rising tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. According to international media reports, about 3,200 soldiers from 14 countries are taking part in the German-led Northern Coasts 23 exercise, the German navy said in a statement on Saturday. The exercise…
[ad_1] A raging conflict in Sudan has driven more than 3.1 million people from their homes, the United Nations said on Wednesday. More than 2.4 million people have been displaced internally and more than 730,000 have fled to neighboring countries, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimated. Most have fled from the capital Khartoum, the…
[ad_1] Sudan’s devastating conflict raged into its third month on Thursday with an estimated two million people displaced, and as a governor’s killing marked a new escalation in the western region of Darfur. Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by his…
[ad_1] The transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine would raise the question of NATO’s involvement in the conflict, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has said. “There is no infrastructure for the operation of the F-16 in Ukraine and the needed number of pilots and maintenance personnel is not there either,” Antonov…
