Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for seventh day | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for seventh day | Israel-Palestine conflict News

BREAKINGBREAKING, The temporary pause in fighting will continue for another 24 hours. The truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended for a seventh day, sources from both sides announced just minutes before the agreement was set to expire. Israel’s military said on Thursday that the temporary pause in fighting…

Progressive US lawmakers renew calls for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Progressive US lawmakers renew calls for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Washington, DC – Advocates calling for a ceasefire in Gaza were often interrupted by their own tears as they gathered outside the White House and read the names of Palestinians killed in the war. Several speakers, including Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and actors Cynthia Nixon and Denee Benton, took turns reading…

Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 | Obituaries News

Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 | Obituaries News

New York, United States – Few Nobel Peace Prize winners are called warmongers, but the gravelly-voiced, enigmatic diplomat Henry Kissinger was. The contradictions of Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at age 100, do not end there. An academic who became a celebrity, Kissinger was a Jewish…

Analysis: Why extending the Israel-Hamas truce won’t be easy | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Analysis: Why extending the Israel-Hamas truce won’t be easy | Israel-Palestine conflict News

With hours left of the agreed pause in Gaza fighting, Israel, Hamas and the intermediaries negotiating between them were on Wednesday again in a frenzy of activity. The original truce was to have lasted until Monday, but Hamas decided to accept the Israeli offer to extend the ceasefire by a…

New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military | Business and Economy News

New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military | Business and Economy News

US Treasury Department says Iran relies on brokers, front companies to finance proxies across region, including Hamas. The United States Department of the Treasury has announced new sanctions targeting 21 Iranians, foreign nationals, and firms accused of involvement in an illicit financial network for the benefit of the Iranian military….

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

An investigation finds the Emirati president of the talks, who is also an oil executive, is using his role to push fossil fuel deals. The Emirati president of the United Nations climate conference in Dubai has denied reports that he has used his role at the negotiations to pursue fossil…

US says Indian gov’t official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist | Courts News

US says Indian gov’t official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist | Courts News

US federal prosecutors charge 52-year-old Indian man for alleged involvement in murder-for-hire conspiracy. Authorities in the United States have said that an Indian government official directed a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil, as they announced charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder. On…

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli women and children on their return from captivity in Gaza have spoken of being beaten and threatened, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say. Most captives released during a six-day-old truce have been rushed to hospitals in…

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Residents of Jenin camp, which has seen nightly raids since October 7, say they were ‘shocked’ at scale of attack. Two Palestinian boys were shot and killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said. As talks to…

Pakistan cricketers told to ‘prioritise country’ after poor World Cup | Cricket News

Pakistan cricketers told to ‘prioritise country’ after poor World Cup | Cricket News

Pakistan’s cricketers have been told to prioritise country over leagues with the new director of cricket warning against signing up for T20 franchises, two weeks after the South Asian nation wrapped up its poor run at the ICC Cricket World Cup. Pakistan, who won the 50-over tournament in 1992, lost…