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Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis 1, said yesterday that the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestiniam group, Hamas, has morphed from war to terrorism. His declaration came on a day Israel and Hamas announced…

The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Wednesday said the Gaza Strip could not be divided and should be governed by the Palestinian Authority in the future, with the European Union being part of a…

Israel’s government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian…

Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa for consultation following the latest statement from South Africa. According to Reuters, Israel’s foreign ministry confirmed the recall on Monday. South Africa's…

The chief of Hamas told Reuters on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group was near a truce agreement with Israel, even as the deadly assault on Gaza continued and rockets were being fired into Israel. Hamas officials…

The South African government has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by…

Twenty-nine premature babies arrived in Egypt on Monday, Egyptian media said, after they were evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital which has become a focal point of Israel’s war with Hamas. The infants were…

If either Joe Biden or Donald Trump prevails in the November 2024 US elections, the next president will be the oldest in history to take the oath of office. But while Biden’s age and public slips and stumbles have…

At least 70 people have been announced dead in a hospital in the Southern Gaza Strip following a nearby Israeli airstrike, Doctors Without Borders said. Dozens of patients, including children and adolescents, had to be…

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the devoted wife of the nation's 39th president and a…

Five countries, including South Africa and Bangladesh, on Friday called for an International Criminal Court investigation into the Israel-Hamas war that has left thousands of people dead, its chief prosecutor said.…

Former President Donald Trump declared in the first rally of his 2024 presidential…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his call to stop the killing of women and children in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu again appealed for support…

The director of Gaza’s biggest hospital said Tuesday that 179 people, including babies and patients who died in the intensive care unit, had been buried in a “mass grave” at the complex. “We were forced to bury them in a…

The United States Secret Service said Monday that an agent reportedly assigned to President Joe Biden’s granddaughter — opened fire during an attempted…

People applying for visas to visit Europe’s Schengen area will soon do so via an online platform, under a change adopted by EU foreign ministers on Monday. The shift towards digitalisation of the visa process will also do…

A former United Kingdom Prime Minister, David Cameron, has been appointed as the country’s new Foreign Secretary by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a recent cabinet reshuffle. Having served as the British PM from 2010…

The joint Arab and Islamic Extra-ordinary Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday demanded an end to Israel’s aggression…

A memo from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) indicates that there are more people wanting to sponsor their parents and grandparents through its Parents and Grandparents (PGP) visa route than…

When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented the civilian death toll in Gaza on Friday, it marked a subtle but notable shift in US language toward the…

A team of surgeons in New York announced Thursday they had performed the world’s first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn’t yet known whether the recipient…

Israel has agreed to daily four-hour pauses in northern Gaza to let civilians flee, the White House said Thursday, even as President Joe Biden said there was no chance of a full ceasefire. Biden has been pressing…

Catholic Vatican has announced that transgender people can be baptised in the Catholic Church as long as doing so does not cause scandal or "confusion" The Church's doctrinal office…

Fighting raged in Gaza on Wednesday more than a month after Hamas’s shock October 7 attack triggered a furious response from Israel aimed at destroying the Islamist militant group. More than 1,400 people, mostly…