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French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Saturday denounced the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque as police hunted the killer, who filmed his victim as he lay dying. The attacker stabbed the worshipper dozens of times then filmed him with a mobile phone while shouting insults at
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile early Sunday toward Israel, which the Israeli military said it shot down. Sirens sounded in parts of Israel around the Dead Sea over the attack, which the Houthis did not immediately claim. “The missile was intercepted prior to crossing into Israeli territory,” the
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Hamas seeks an agreement to end the Gaza war that would include the one-time release of all remaining hostages and a five-year truce, an official from the Palestinian group said Saturday. “Hamas is ready for an exchange of prisoners in a single batch and a truce for five years,” the
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Israel’s military said Saturday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, whose Houthi militants have launched attacks throughout the Gaza war, as well as a drone approaching “from the east.” “Following the sirens that sounded recently in several areas in Israel, a missile that was launched from Yemen
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A meeting in Rome between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken place, a spokesman for the Ukrainian leader said.
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Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian posts all along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir for a second consecutive night, the Indian military said Saturday, as tensions continued to escalate between nuclear-armed rivals following a deadly attack on tourists. The Indian army said in a statement on Saturday that soldiers
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Indian officials said the army had a brief exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers along their highly militarized frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, as the nuclear-armed rivals ramped up tit-for-tat diplomatic offensive following a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed area. The report of a gunfight comes
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A small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing at least five people on board, officials said. The plane was conducting a test flight to prepare for parachute training in Hua Hin district before it crashed around 8 a.m., said Royal Thai
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized China for backing out of a deal to buy new Boeing planes due to tariffs imposed in the rivals’ trade war. “Boeing should default China for not taking the beautifully finished planes that China committed to purchase,” Trump wrote on social media, without
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Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday. Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as
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UN special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg met Houthi militant officials in Oman on Thursday to discuss “the necessity to stabilize the situation” in the Arabian Peninsula country. The Houthis form part of Iran’s “axis of resistance” against Israel and the United States, and since the war in Gaza
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Amnesty International on Thursday denounced what it called a “crackdown on peaceful dissent” in Algeria in response to an online protest campaign. “Algerian authorities have intensified their relentless clampdown on peaceful dissent through arbitrary arrests and unjust prosecutions leading to lengthy prison sentences,” the rights group said in a statement.
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The UK government announced on Thursday it was lifting sanctions that were imposed on Syria’s interior and defense ministries during the rule of the now-deposed Bashar Assad. “The following entries have been removed from the Consolidated List and are no longer subject to an asset freeze – Ministry of Interior,
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Boeing’s Chinese customers are refusing delivery of new planes built for them due to tariffs, the US planemaker has confirmed, as a third Boeing jet started returning to the US on Thursday. “Due to the tariffs, many of our customers in China have indicated that they will not take
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Russia launched 215 drones and missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine, Ukraine’s air force said. Air force units shot down 48 missiles and 64 drones, while 68 drones were redirected by electronic warfare, the air force said in a post on Telegram.
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An administrative court on Wednesday overturned France’s decision to cut government funding to the country’s biggest Muslim high school in 2023, in what rights groups say is part of a wider crackdown on Muslim schools. Private school Averroes, the first Muslim high school to open in mainland France