Blinken to Israel on Middle East mission to prevent a wider...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to leave for Israel on Wednesday on a Middle East mission to prevent a wider war...
Egypt moves to prevent exodus of Palestinians from besieged Gaza
Egypt is moving to avert a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula, as Israeli bombardment halted crossings at the main...
Lebanon’s Hezbollah on war footing but moves carefully as conflict widens
Lebanon's Hezbollah has moved carefully since Hamas and Israel went to war, keeping Israeli troops busy with attacks at the Lebanese border but not...
Israel forms unity government as Hamas armed wing says still fighting...
Israel formed an emergency unity government on Wednesday as it pounded Gaza to root out Hamas and deploying forces north of the densely populated...
Israel pounds Gaza with fiercest air strikes ever
Israel said on Tuesday it had reclaimed control of the Gaza border, pounding the enclave with the fiercest air strikes in the 75-year history...
Iran’s Khamenei says Tehran was not behind Hamas attack on Israel
Tehran was not involved in the militant Hamas group’s weekend attack on Israel, Iran’s top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, but hailed...
Do not get involved in Israel crisis, top US general warns...
The United States’ top general warned Iran not to get involved in the crisis in Israel and said he did not want the conflict...
IMF says global economy ‘limping along’, cuts growth forecast for China,...
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its growth forecasts for China and the euro area and said overall global growth remained low and...
IMF lowers Sub-Saharan Africa growth forecasts
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth will shrink for a second year in a row in 2023 before rebounding in 2024, the International Monetary Fund said...
UN chief ‘deeply distressed’ by planned Israeli siege of Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply distressed” by an announcement that Israel will initiate a complete siege of the Gaza Strip...
