There has been no contact with Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi since her arrest at the end of last week, her supporters said Sunday, urging the Islamic republic to release the campaigner and dozens of others arrested alongside her. Mohammadi, who won the 2023
JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Sunday's deadly shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration in Sydney and said he had warned his Australian counterpart that the country's support for Palestinian statehood would fuel
'There is no such thing as Palestinians…You are depraved': Working in the human rights field, I'm used to seeing settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, but I was still shocked to see that same violence mirrored in the Knesset, as far-right lawmakers mounted a
JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Sunday against a government push to oust the attorney general, who has sparred with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nationalist-religious coalition over the legality of its policies, court documents showed. In
Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in March 2023 and held in captivity in Iraq until September. Read her full Haaretz Podcast interview about the shock of returning to a post-October 7 Israel and sparring with right wing pundit Amit Segal – plus her analyses of Iraq, Syria and Gaza
By Byron Kaye and Pete Mckenzie SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Days after Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was spray-painted on the front of a Jewish bakery in Sydney, the first of a string of
By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A bystander captured on video tackling and disarming an armed man during an attack in which 12 people were shot dead at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday has been hailed as a hero whose actions potentially
SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed and around a dozen wounded when gunmen opened fire during a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, Australian officials said. Following are comments from world leaders in the wake of the deadly shooting:
By Kirsty Needham, Stella Qiu and Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and around a dozen wounded after two gunmen opened fire during a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, Australian officials said. One suspected gunman was dead
By Friederike Heine and Matthias Williams BERLIN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Sunday for a "dignified" peace and guarantees that Russia would not attack Ukraine again as he prepared to meet U.S. envoys and European allies in Berlin to end
By Menna AlaaElDin and Muhammad Al Gebaly CAIRO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Hamas' chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya said on Sunday that a targeted assassination by Israel on Saturday of one of the group's senior commanders threatens the "viability of the truce" in the enclave. In a
DUBAI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, will visit Russia and Belarus in the next two to three days, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Sunday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in