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21 Oct 1949

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Israel's Prime Minister

A room inside a tunnel underneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis, where Israeli military said the body of Mohammed Sinwar was found. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israel military says identified body of Hamas chief Mohammed Sinwar

The remains were found in a tunnel beneath the European Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

9 Jun 2025 - 9:25AM

Middle East

Iran says it obtained sensitive Israeli nuclear documents

8 Jun 2025 - 12:58AM

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu admits to Israeli support for anti-Hamas armed gang

7 Jun 2025 - 4:41PM

Israel-Gaza war

Grandma files war crimes case over Gaza deaths of French grandchildren

Jacqueline Rivault accuses Israeli officials of murder and genocide, with her case related to the deaths of Janna and Abderrahim Abudaher, aged 6 and 9.

6 Jun 2025 - 6:22PM

Destruction in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, on May 17. Photo: Reuters

United States

Outside In | As costs of Trump’s chaos become clear, expect him to shift the blame

Trump’s supporters seem certain the damage his policies cause will be short-lived, but they may change their minds as the trade wars drag on.

6 Jun 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

United States

US hits ICC judges with sanctions over Israel, Afghanistan cases

Washington targets four judges with travel bans and asset freezes; ICC condemns move.

6 Jun 2025 - 2:13PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel recovers bodies of 2 hostages from Gaza

Hamas is still holding 56 hostages, around a third of them believed to be alive.

5 Jun 2025 - 3:57PM

Gad Haggai and Judih Weinstein were killed in the October 7 attack, and their bodies were recently recovered from the southern Gaza. File photo: AFP

Crime

Colorado firebomb suspect planned attack for a year, prosecutors say

Suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman charged with federal hate crime, attempted murder for attack on pro-Israel event in Boulder that injured 12.

3 Jun 2025 - 12:31PM

Israel-Gaza war

Qatar and Egypt to ramp up efforts to revive Gaza ceasefire talks

Hamas says it is ready to ‘immediately’ hold round of Gaza truce talks after recent negotiations appeared to hit a dead end.

2 Jun 2025 - 12:31PM

Israel-Gaza war

US ambassador to Israel says France can ‘carve’ Palestinian state out of Riviera

Mike Huckabee, a staunch advocate for Israel, called France’s advocacy for a Palestinian state ‘inappropriate’.

2 Jun 2025 - 10:01AM

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

More than 30 killed near Gaza aid distribution site, Israel denies firing

Residents and medics say Israeli forces fired at people heading to aid distribution site, but IDF denies it and GHF said there were no casualties.

2 Jun 2025 - 2:43PM

Displaced Palestinians return from a food distribution centre in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Gaza rescuers said Israeli gunfire killed several people. Photo: AFP

Middle East

US sends Iran proposal for nuclear deal

Washington and Tehran are expected to hold a 6th round of talks, with Trump saying an agreement was possible in the ‘not-too-distant future’.

1 Jun 2025 - 6:21AM

Israel-Gaza war

Desperate Palestinians in Gaza block and offload UN food trucks

The UN World Food Programme says the fear of starvation in Gaza is high, seeks to rebuild trust with communities that more food is coming.

31 May 2025 - 11:26PM

Middle East

Iran has grown uranium stockpile to near weapons-grade levels: IAEA report

As of May 17, Iran has amassed 408.6kg of uranium enriched up to 60 per cent, an increase of nearly 50 per cent since February report.

31 May 2025 - 8:16PM

A uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, about 322km south of Tehran, in Iran. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

‘Too little, too late’? Israel’s Western allies turn against it over Gaza

Britain, Canada, the EU – and even Trump – are finally changing their tune, but experts question if mere rhetoric can halt the suffering.

31 May 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

Hungry Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Jabalia, the northern Gaza Strip, on May 19. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

Trump wants Iran deal that lets US ‘blow up’ nuclear sites, ‘whatever we want’

An adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the US president’s ideas as a fantasy.

30 May 2025 - 5:51AM

Israel-Gaza war

US proposes 60-day ceasefire for Gaza; hostage-prisoner swap, plan shows

The White House said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to the US ceasefire proposal.

30 May 2025 - 7:49PM

Middle East

Trump says he told Israel’s Netanyahu to hold off striking Iran

US president warns Israel against pre-emptive action as UN watchdog says ‘jury is still out’ on Tehran talks.

29 May 2025 - 12:35PM

This satellite photo shows the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. Photo: Planet Labs PBC via AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel says army killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’ presumed chief in Gaza

Mohammed Sinwar is the brother of slain former chief Yahya Sinwar who was killed in October 2024.

28 May 2025 - 10:50PM

Israel-Gaza war

My Take | European Union has finally shed crocodile tears for Palestinians

Rounds of Western criticism are little more than a slap on the wrist for Israel when the latter’s genocidal intent in Gaza can no longer be ignored.

28 May 2025 - 9:05PM

Middle East

Israel hits Houthi targets including last plane at Yemen’s Sanaa airport

The airport, Yemen’s largest, was mainly being used by UN aircraft and the plane destroyed in the latest Israeli strikes.

28 May 2025 - 8:50PMvideocam

People inspect the damage at Sanaa International Airport in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on May 7, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli troops fire warning shots as Palestinians rush into new Gaza food hub

Chaos erupted as gunfire sent people – some of whom had walked for kilometres to get aid – to flee in panic.

28 May 2025 - 12:35PM

Palestinians rush to get aid boxes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in march through Jerusalem

There were scuffles and insults as Israelis celebrated Jerusalem Day under the shadow of the war in Gaza.

27 May 2025 - 3:41PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli PM meets US homeland security chief in Jerusalem

Netanyahu’s office said Kristi Noem reaffirmed US support for Israel amid the Gaza conflict.

26 May 2025 - 10:22AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes kill 30 in Gaza, including rescue service official and local journalist

Israel forces in control of 77 per cent of the Gaza Strip, Hamas media office says.

26 May 2025 - 11:08AM

Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

9 of Gaza doctor’s 10 children are killed in Israel’s latest strikes

Paediatrician Alaa Najjar, who was on duty at the time, ran home to find her home on fire and only her husband and one son, 11, still alive.

25 May 2025 - 1:21AM

Workers collect human remains after an Israeli strike on a home in Khan Younis killed nine of a doctor’s 10 children while she was at work. Photo: Gaza Civil Defence via AP

Israel-Gaza war

15 aid trucks looted in Gaza, says UN, amid dozens more deaths in strikes

Raids were motivated by ‘hunger, desperation and anxiety’, and support from the Israeli authorities is needed, the World Food Programme said.

24 May 2025 - 1:03AMvideocam

Gun violence in the US

Israel blames Europe after embassy staff shot dead in US

Suspect Elias Rodriguez has been charged with the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, a couple planning to marry.

23 May 2025 - 6:20AM

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