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Jerusalem

Head of State

President Isaac Herzog

Head of Government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Palestinian children play on destroyed cars outside a UNRWA school housing refugees in Gaza City on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas says open to releasing all hostages for 5-year Gaza truce

The militants have consistently demanded that a deal must lead to the war’s end, full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a surge in aid.

27 Apr 2025 - 6:31AM

Middle East

Palestinian president Abbas appoints aide as potential successor

27 Apr 2025 - 4:46AM

Yemen

Yemen prepares ‘biggest offensive ever’ against Houthi rebels with US support

26 Apr 2025 - 7:30PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

UN’s WFP says all Gaza food stocks depleted amid Israel’s aid block

The World Food Programme says its kitchens are expected to ‘fully run out of food in the coming days’.

26 Apr 2025 - 9:08AM

Palestinians receiving food from a charity kitche in Jabalia, Gaza. The UN’s World Food Programme says it has depleted its food stocks. Photo: EPA-EFE

US-China relations

Unpredictable Trump leaves China struggling to respond to US foreign policy

American leader’s erratic approach to Ukraine and Middle East means challenges for stability-fixated Beijing amid its shifting Moscow ties.

25 Apr 2025 - 1:06AMvideocam

Indonesia

Presence of Indonesian students in Israel stirs debate over Palestinian issue

While some students have hailed the benefits of studying in Israel, others warn the stint may affect the students’ mindset over Palestine.

23 Apr 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

Animals

Crowds swam with sharks off Israel’s coast – then a man disappeared

A body has been found after a swimmer went missing in an area where the marine predators have drawn curious beachgoers.

23 Apr 2025 - 2:34AM

Sharks swim off the coast of Hadera in central Israel on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Donald Trump

Harvard University sues Trump over threats to cut US$2.2 billion in funding

Trump has sought to bring several universities to heel over claims they tolerated antisemitism by threatening budgets and tax-exempt status.

22 Apr 2025 - 3:35PM

United States

Editorial | Trump’s foolhardy spat with Harvard is just tip of the iceberg

American president’s goal to restrict and control foreign students entering US universities will leave his country all the poorer.

21 Apr 2025 - 6:15AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel cancels visas for French lawmakers 2 days before visit

Sunday’s action came amid diplomatic tensions after President Emmanuel Macron said France would soon recognise a Palestinian state.

21 Apr 2025 - 5:27AM

France’s President Emmanuel Macron. Israel on Sunday cancelled visas for French lawmakers before a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Macron has said France would soon recognise a Palestinian state. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel opposition leader fears violence over move to sack Shin Bet chief

‘If we don’t stop this, there will be a political murder here … Jews will kill Jews,’ Yair Lapid said.

21 Apr 2025 - 4:34AM

Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid. Photo: AFP

Middle East

15 Gaza paramedics were shot and killed in ‘misunderstanding’, Israel finds

Israeli troops opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a UN car because an officer felt they were a threat, the investigation found.

21 Apr 2025 - 9:32AM

Israel-Gaza war

Qatar’s lead negotiator committed to reviving Gaza peace talks

Qatar, with the US and Egypt, brokered a truce in Gaza which came into force on January 15 and largely halted over a year of war.

20 Apr 2025 - 5:37PM

France

‘A more reliable partner’: how France’s Palestine push could isolate the US

France’s president is seizing a global leadership vacuum left by Washington to champion a two-state solution. The effects could be profound.

20 Apr 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

‘Everything is stuck’: dad of American hostage urges US to hold Hamas talks

‘It seems like the negotiations are stalled, everything is stuck and we are kind of back to a year ago,’ Adi Alexander says.

20 Apr 2025 - 11:00AMvideocam

People carry posters with pictures of Edan Alexander during a protest demanding the release of all Israeli hostages in Jerusalem on April 13. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Gaza war: Israel’s Netanyahu says military to increase pressure on Hamas

The militants have rejected a proposal for another temporary truce, seeking a deal to end a war in exchange for the release of all hostages.

20 Apr 2025 - 5:08AM

Israel-Gaza war

Gazans resort to turtle meat amid famine, humanitarian crisis: UN

The heads of 12 major aid organisations warned that ‘famine is not just a risk, but likely rapidly unfolding’ in Gaza.

19 Apr 2025 - 7:48PM

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas ‘ready to release all remaining hostages’ for end to Gaza war

Khalil al-Hayya, who leads the Hamas negotiating team for indirect talks with Israel, said the group refused an interim truce deal.

18 Apr 2025 - 11:39AMvideocam

Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza call for action to secure the hostages’ release, outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, Israel on Thursday. Photo: AFP

Indonesia

Can Indonesia’s Prabowo succeed in plan to evacuate Gaza’s Palestinians?

The Indonesian president has said that his plan would happen only with agreement from ‘all parties’.

18 Apr 2025 - 3:31PMvideocam

Donald Trump

Trump blocked Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites to avoid military clash

A report said the goal was to set back the Islamic republic’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon by a year or more.

17 Apr 2025 - 11:46AMvideocam

United States

Palestinian activist expecting US citizenship interview is arrested by ICE

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent US resident and a critic of the war in Gaza, was arrested in Vermont on Monday.

15 Apr 2025 - 1:28PM

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, gives a peace sign as he is detained at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont on Monday. Photo: Christopher Helali via AP

Donald Trump

Harvard hit with US$2 billion funding freeze after rejecting Trump’s demands

The White House said its demands were intended to crack down on antisemitism following student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

15 Apr 2025 - 10:55PM

Demonstrators rally at a protest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday calling on Harvard to resist interference by the federal government. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas offers ‘serious prisoner swap’ for guarantees Israel will end Gaza war

Hamas proposed releasing all Israeli hostages for a significant prisoner swap and an end to the Gaza conflict, demanding guarantees to ensure Israel’s compliance.

14 Apr 2025 - 7:30PMvideocam

Bangladesh

Bangladesh reintroduces ‘except Israel’ phrase on passports

Muslim-majority Bangladesh does not recognise Israel. The ‘except Israel’ phrase was removed in 2021 during former PM Sheikh Hasina’s tenure.

14 Apr 2025 - 7:08AM

US-Iran tensions

US Pentagon chief says military ready to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear bomb

Pete Hegseth said Trump hoped to avoid military option ‘but if we have to, we will to prevent the nuclear bomb in Iran’s hands’.

14 Apr 2025 - 8:22AMvideocam

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Hundreds of patients evacuated as Israel strikes hospital for fifth time

The attack, on one of the enclave’s few functioning hospitals, was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility, Israel said.

13 Apr 2025 - 7:25PMvideocam

A Palestinian doctor at the site of the destroyed Al Ahli Baptist hospital on Sunday following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Israel expanding Gaza offensive, seizes key corridor

The IDF also launched strikes in the Khan Younis area after ordering tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.

13 Apr 2025 - 4:27AMvideocam

US-China relations

US weapons to Taiwan at risk from weak supply chains but Ukraine ‘not to blame’

Think tank audits 25 items, finds only seven with a strong defence industrial base and calls for significant improvements.

19 Apr 2025 - 11:41AMvideocam

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