In yet another Middle East visit, the US secretary of state has been rallying support from regional players. The US secretary of state has wrapped up his latest visit to the Middle East, with Cairo as his final stop. It’s Antony Blinken’s fourth time in the region since Israel began…
Wakapoa, Guyana – The threat had always been there, ever since Lloyd Perreira was a young child: that one day his ancestral home could be absorbed into the neighbouring country of Venezuela. A member of the Lokono Indigenous people, Perreira considers his home Essequibo, a vast territory on the western…
Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), the country’s first marine unit since World War II, is tasked to lead assaults from the sea in a possible future war. The elite 2,400-person unit includes only about 40 women. Three of them are Hikari Maruyama, Runa Kurosawa and Sawaka Nakano. Living alongside…
Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says the UN preoccupation with Afghan women is unwarranted. The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is “deeply concerned” about Taliban authorities arbitrarily arresting and detaining women and girls it accuses of violating dress codes regarding the Islamic headscarf, or hijab. In a statement on Thursday,…
The Houthis’ leader says any US attack will trigger a greater response as the group steps up attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. Any attack on Yemen’s Houthis on the part of the United States will not go without a response,…
Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border attacks since the early days of the Gaza war. Both Lebanon and Israel “prefer” a diplomatic deal to end tensions along their shared border, where Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been exchanging fire for the past three months, a United States…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has held the first of a two-day hearing in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over the war in Gaza. Even as the hearing, which will span Thursday and Friday, was being conducted, the ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip by…
Top US diplomat stresses the need for a path to Palesitnian statehood as he ends latest visit to the Middle East. Offering Palestinians a path to statehood can stabilise the Middle East and isolate Iran, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said as he wrapped his latest visit to…
EXPLAINER Despite a government offensive against the armed group, al-Shabab shows its capacity for high-level attacks. On Wednesday, armed group al-Shabab captured a United Nations-contracted helicopter in Somalia, killing one person and kidnapping several other passengers and crew members on board. The helicopter was on a medical evacuation mission from…
EXPLAINER The former president and 2024 contender suggested he might have decided on his vice presidential pick — but didn’t name anyone. Boycotting the presidential debate for the fifth consecutive time, former United States president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump instead attended a town hall in Iowa. The event,…
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