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The Israeli military said that the seven living hostages earlier freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip were now in Israeli custody. “We’ve been waiting 738 days to say this: Welcome home,” the Israeli foreign ministry posted on X, identifying the released captives as Guy Gilboa Dalal, Eitan Mor,
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A paramilitary drone strike killed at least 30 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El-Fasher in western Sudan on Saturday, a local activist group said. The resistance committee for El-Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces, which has been at war with the army since April 2023,
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At least two people were killed after an assailant drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in England on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, British police said. Greater Manchester Police said the suspect, who was believed to be carrying a
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Yemen’s Houthis said Israeli air strikes hit the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, with an AFP journalist reporting the sound of explosions. “Israeli aggression on the capital Sanaa,” the Houthis’ Al-Masirah television reported on Telegram.
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A “large shark” mauled a surfer to death at a popular Sydney beach on Saturday, Australian police and rescuers said, in a rare fatal attack that led to a string of beach closures. The 57-year-old local man had gone surfing with five or six friends in the Pacific waters off
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American cartels. Asked why the military did not instead interdict the
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A thousand villages in India’s Punjab state are marooned by deadly floods, with thousands forced to seek shelter in relief camps, government authorities say. Flooding across the northwestern state killed at least 29 people and affected over 250,000 last month, with the state’s chief minister calling it
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Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday, accusing the country of being behind antisemitic arson attacks in Melbourne and Sydney. It marks the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II. Intelligence services reached a “deeply disturbing conclusion” that Iran directed at least two antisemitic attacks, Prime
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Sri Lanka’s jailed former president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was hospitalized on Saturday, local media reported, a day after his arrest on allegations that he misused public funds while in office. Wickremesinghe, 76, who led the South Asian island nation during a devastating economic crisis, was arrested and taken into custody
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US envoy Tom Barrack called on Israel to honor its commitments under a ceasefire that ended its war with Hezbollah, after the Lebanese government launched a process to disarm the militant group. Under the truce agreement, weapons in Lebanon were to be restricted to the state and Israel was to
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Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said his government had heard protesters opposing a law revoking the independence of anti-corruption agencies and had responded by proposing new legislation. The adoption of the bill, which curbed the powers of two anti-graft bodies, triggered the biggest public protests in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion
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Thirty-one workers have been safely removed from an industrial tunnel under construction in Los Angeles after part of it collapsed on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The collapse occurred 5 to 6 miles (8 to 9.7 kilometers) from the tunnel’s sole entrance in an industrial section
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Firefighters in Turkiye are battling wildfires for a second day raging in the western province of Izmir fanned by strong winds, the forestry minister and local media said on Monday Wildfires in Kuyucak and Doganbey areas of Izmir were fanned overnight by winds reaching 40-50 kph (25-30 mph) and four
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Thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel. The caskets of Guard’s chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s
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A road accident in northern Egypt killed 19 people on Friday, most of them teenage girls working as day laborers, state media reported. A truck collided with the minibus carrying the laborers to their place of work from their home village of Kafr Al-Sanabsa in the Nile Delta, some 100
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Turkiye will not allow extremists to drag Syria back into chaos and instability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after a suicide attack killed 22 at a Damascus church. “We will never allow our neighbor and brother Syria... be dragged into a new environment of instability through proxy terrorist