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Palestinians ride a donkey-drawn cart on a rain-flooded street in Gaza City on Friday. — Reuters
Nearly 795,000 displaced Gazans face flood risk

GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans face flooding of their tents and shelters by heavy rains; and materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave, the UN International Organisation for Migration said on Friday. Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, flooding tents sheltering families displaced by two years...
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Path to Ukraine peace not 'straight line', says Starmer
A man watches as members of the Palestinian Civil Defence participate in a search and rescue operation at the site of a house that was partially destroyed during the war and collapsed on Tuesday, at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. - Reuters

Trump says Gaza stabilisation force is already running
Displaced people eat dinner at a temporary shelter along a disputed border area, in Buriram province. — Reuters

Thailand to repatriate stranded at border
Members of the Palestinian civil defence search for the bodies of the Salem family in the rubble of a building destroyed in 2023 in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 15, 2025. The United States, alongside Qatar and Egypt, secured a truce in Gaza that came into effect on October 10 and has mostly halted two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. More than 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war, according to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory that the United Nations considers reliable. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

ICC rejects Israeli attempt to block probe
The authorities of the capital, Khartoum, are deploying thousands of soldiers to support the Sudanese army. — AFP

Sudan's general ready to talk to Trump for peace
A patrol car of the M23 group patrols in Uvira. — AFP

M23 group to pull out of key DR Congo city
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Ooredoo Oman confirms restructuring of non-senior leadership roles

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Prime Minister of India arrives today on visit

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Path to Ukraine peace not 'straight line', says Starmer

A man watches as members of the Palestinian Civil Defence participate in a search and rescue operation at the site of a house that was partially destroyed during the war and collapsed on Tuesday, at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. - Reuters

Trump says Gaza stabilisation force is already running

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Visit expected to strengthen partnerships

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
A man watches as members of the Palestinian Civil Defence participate in a search and rescue operation at the site of a house that was partially destroyed during the war and collapsed on Tuesday, at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. - Reuters

Trump says Gaza stabilisation force is already running

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said the International Stabilisation Force for Gaza is already running and that more countries would be added."I think that, in a form, it's already running," Trump said in the Oval Office. "More and more...

Members of the Palestinian civil defence search for the bodies of the Salem family in the rubble of a building destroyed in 2023 in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 15, 2025. The United States, alongside Qatar and Egypt, secured a truce in Gaza that came into effect on October 10 and has mostly halted two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. More than 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war, according to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory that the United Nations considers reliable. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
ICC rejects Israeli attempt to block probe
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GCC integration to have a positive impact on travel and tourism
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Middle East tops in airlines' net profit margins
A Palestinian man holding the national flag gestures at the entrance of the Nur Shams refugee camp. — AFP

Israel to demolish 25 residential buildings in West Bank camp
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Pakistan Social Club reactivated
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Americas

US director Rob Reiner attends the Human Rights Campaign's 2025 LA Dinner at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, March 22, 2025. Los Angeles police were investigating the deaths of Hollywood star Rob Reiner and his wife as an "apparent homicide", as condolences poured in for the director behind hits like "When Harry Met Sally". Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles mansion with what appeared to be stab wounds, US media reported on Sunday.

US Police probe deaths of Rob Reiner, wife

Australia defends record on antisemitism after Bondi Beach attack

2 Killed, eight others Shot at US University

US slaps sanctions on Maduro relatives as Venezuela war fears build

Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year

Africa

The authorities of the capital, Khartoum, are deploying thousands of soldiers to support the Sudanese army. — AFP

Sudan's general ready to talk to Trump for peace

M23 group to pull out of key DR Congo city

Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco town

Nigeria dispatches jets, troops to quash Benin coup bid

Sudan paramilitary seizes key oil field: engineer

Europe

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Path to Ukraine peace not 'straight line', says Starmer

Europe to launch global claim for Ukraine war damages

BBC to fight Trump's $10 bn defamation lawsuit

Zelensky sees progress in Berlin talks

US-Ukrainian talks resume with territorial stakes unresolved

Asia
Displaced people eat dinner at a temporary shelter along a disputed border area, in Buriram province. — Reuters

Thailand to repatriate stranded at border

BANGKOK: Thailand is working out how to repatriate up to 6,000 citizens unable to return home through a major border crossing in Cambodia closed as fighting along the contested border extended into a...
Trucks containing petrol are stranded at Chong Mek checkpoint on the Thailand-Laos border. — Reuters

Cambodia says Thailand bombs province of heritage temples

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Bangladesh to airlift wounded uprising leader after election shooting

A security volunteer stands as he remains in the evacuation zone in the Thai province of Buriram. — AFP

Thailand declares curfew as Cambodia clash spreads

Sudanese take to the streets during a rally in support of the army, Port Sudan. — AFP

Six peacekeepers in Sudan killed in UN base attack

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Losing international students could devastate many US colleges

Xiaofeng Wan, a former admissions officer at Amherst College, now works as a private consultant to international students who want to come to the United States. This week, as he held meetings in China with prospective...

The campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12, 2018. (Cody O'Loughlin/The New York Times)

Sanitation crisis in Gaza spreads disease

Gazans flee homes as Israeli strikes resume

10 years after typhoon, Philippine city rises from the ruins
Australia
Mourners embrace near tributes piled together in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney. — AFP

Australian Prime Minister says 'IS ideology' drove Bondi Beach gunmen

SYDNEY: A father and son were driven by "IS ideology" when they fired on crowds at Bondi Beach in one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday....
Mourners gather at a tribute in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney. — AFP

Australia to toughen gun laws as it mourns deadly Bondi attack

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach, Sydney. — Reuters

Mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach event kills 12

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How Australia plans to ban under-16s from social media

Protesters take part in the Rising Tide People's Blockade in Newcastle, Australia. — Reuters

Australia arrests dozens in coal port protest

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