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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

A Palestinian man hugs the body of a baby at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, following Israeli overnight strikes in the northern Gaza Strip, Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 58 Palestinians, hospitals say

Israel resumes its bombing campaign after announcing renewed ground operations in central and southern Gaza.

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Israel-Gaza war

Israel investigating UN worker’s death in Gaza, military denies striking compound

20 Mar 2025 - 9:24AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas in no-win situation as Israeli strikes on Gaza resume

20 Mar 2025 - 8:58AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu says strikes on Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

Israeli strikes killed more than 400 and shattered months of relative calm in Gaza since ceasefire began.

19 Mar 2025 - 8:05PMvideocam

A Palestinian man weeps next to a truck carrying the bodies of the victims of overnight Israeli strikes in northern Gaza on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Ukraine war

Trump, Putin agree on partial Ukraine ceasefire. Kyiv wants details

Ukraine ceasefire talks set for Sunday in Jeddah after Trump and Russian president hold lengthy phone call.

19 Mar 2025 - 4:00PM

Middle East

Trump threatens Iran with ‘dire’ consequences over Houthi attacks

Trump’s warning escalates his administration’s new campaign of air strikes targeting the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.

18 Mar 2025 - 2:28PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel strikes across Gaza kill hundreds as ceasefire collapses

Palestinian health authorities report at least 400 dead as Israeli military warns of campaign beyond air strikes.

18 Mar 2025 - 7:32PMvideocam

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu’s move to fire security agency chief threatens new crisis in Israel

Opponents organised protests on Monday after Ronen Bar’s dismissal while a former court president warned against the ‘dangerous’ move.

18 Mar 2025 - 1:54AMvideocam

Middle East

Houthis claim attacks on aircraft carrier group after US strikes in Yemen

The United States has vowed ‘unrelenting’ strikes on the Houthis over Red Sea attacks.

17 Mar 2025 - 5:19PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu seeks to oust Israel’s domestic security service chief

Israeli leader at odds with Shin Bet’s chief over the October 7 attack and possible links between employees in Netanyahu’s office and Qatar.

17 Mar 2025 - 2:52PM

Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) director Ronen Bar. File photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israel team discusses Gaza hostages at truce talks dogged by divisions

Despite the fragile truce still holding, near-daily Israeli air strikes on Gaza continue.

17 Mar 2025 - 10:51AM

A demonstrator holds a sign showing the face of hostage Edan Alexander during a protest in Tel Aviv calling for the release the remaining hostages held captive in Gaza. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Deadly Israeli strikes mar fragile Gaza truce

Nine people, including journalists, were killed in the Beit Lahia attack, the most since the start of the ceasefire with Hamas.

16 Mar 2025 - 6:31AM

Israel-Gaza war

US strikes hit Yemen’s Houthis as Trump threatens ‘lethal force’

The White House said multiple Houthi leaders died during Saturday’s air strikes, and warned Iran to stop backing the rebel group.

17 Mar 2025 - 5:22AMvideocam

US Politics

Meet conservative influencer Emily Austin, who met Trump at the Capitol

Emily Austin, who has more than 2 million followers on Instagram, was invited to the Capitol for Trump’s Congress speech – a move she lauded as ‘great’ and ‘empowering independent journalists’.

17 Mar 2025 - 10:38AM

Sports journalist, model, influencer and entrepreneur Emily Austin recently visited the Capitol. Photo: @emily.austin/Instagram

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas to release American hostage, Israel calls it ‘psychological warfare’

Hamas will also release the bodies of four other dual nationality hostages.

14 Mar 2025 - 10:11PMvideocam

Relatives and supporters of kidnapped Israeli hostages protest to demand the release of all hostages, in Tel Aviv, on March 13, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians from war-torn Gaza

US and Israel explore resettling more than 2 million Palestinians in Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland.

14 Mar 2025 - 4:03PMvideocam

Middle East

Yemen’s Houthis say ‘any Israeli vessel’ in nearby waterways again a target

Renewed threat to shipping ends a period of relative calm that started in January with the Gaza ceasefire.

12 Mar 2025 - 12:50PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel halts Gaza electricity supply amid ongoing ceasefire negotiations

Power cut comes a week after Israel blocked all aid supplies to war-battered Gaza – a response to the Hamas hostage crisis.

10 Mar 2025 - 11:36AM

A boy and a child move water in plastic jerrycans in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City. Photo: AP

India

Israeli tourist and homestay owner gang-raped, man drowns in India attack

A male companion with the women drowned after being pushed into a canal by three assailants in Karnataka state.

9 Mar 2025 - 12:50PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Muslim nations reject Trump’s Gaza plan to remove Palestinians

Foreign ministers backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.

8 Mar 2025 - 8:31PM

United States

Trump cuts grants to Columbia University over antisemitism accusations

The Ivy League school has been at the centre of protests calling for an end to US support for Israel due to civilian deaths in the Gaza war.

8 Mar 2025 - 2:55AM

Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York in April 2024. Photo: AP

Donald Trump

‘Mere document’: Arab states’ Gaza recovery plan fails to sway Trump

The Arab proposal calls for a three-phase, five-year process without any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.

7 Mar 2025 - 11:00AMvideocam

Arab leaders gather in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss the future of Gaza. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Trump warns Hamas as US holds unprecedented talks for Gaza hostages

US president tells Gazans ‘you are dead’ if remaining hostages are not freed now.

6 Mar 2025 - 4:46PM

United States

My Take | Is Donald Trump the real-life Manchurian candidate?

Internet speculation may be off the mark, but his tilt towards Moscow will enable Putin to prevail over Europe and regain leverage over China.

5 Mar 2025 - 9:00PM

Israel-Gaza war

Arab states adopt Egyptian alternative to Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’

The reconstruction proposal would cost US$53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave, unlike the US plan.

5 Mar 2025 - 2:05PMvideocam

Palestinians spending time on a beach, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

Syria risks relapsing into chaos amid US sanctions, infighting

The transitional authorities in Syria are viewed with suspicion by the US and Israel, while various groups want a decentralised government.

4 Mar 2025 - 6:32PM

Syrians protest against Israel in the southern city of Suwayda on February 25. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel PM issues threat to Hamas over hostages as Gaza talks at an impasse

As Arab leaders prepared for summit in Cairo, Netanyahu warned Hamas would face ‘unimaginable consequences’ if it did not return hostages.

4 Mar 2025 - 7:37AM

Middle East

1 dead in Israel stabbing attack, assailant killed

A man and woman around 30 years of age as well as a 15-year-old boy were seriously injured, Israel’s emergency service said.

3 Mar 2025 - 8:20PM

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