Jan 25 (Reuters) - Israel will reopen Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt for the passage of people only after an operation to locate the body of the last remaining Israeli hostage in the enclave is completed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said late on Sunday.
A UN humanitarian convoy arrived Sunday in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane, which has been filled recently with people displaced by clashes in northern Syria, a spokesperson told AFP. Earlier Sunday, Syria's military said it had opened a humanitarian corridor to the town,
VILNIUS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. document on security guarantees for Ukraine is completely ready and Kyiv is waiting for a time and place for it to be signed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, indicating that weekend talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi made some
While open-source tracking shows several fighter jets deployed to protect Israel from Iranian strikes have landed in Jordan, and a heavily equipped aircraft carrier strike group is expected near Iran, the current U.S. deployment appears, for now, smaller than in previous rounds
Government-sponsored violence by Israeli settlers, 'apartheid roads' and Palestinians being displaced from their homes. Peace Now provides a somber day trip in the occupied West Bank
Two senior Iranian officials told Time magazine that up to 30,000 people may have been killed during anti-regime protests in just two days and so many between January 8 and 9 that authorities reportedly ran out of body bags and used trucks instead of ambulances
TAIPEI, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. climber Alex Honnold scaled the Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes or safety netting on Sunday, watched by thousands of cheering and waving fans as he clambered up one of the world's tallest buildings. "Sick," Honnold said as he got to the top
A Saudi Arabian media campaign targeting the UAE has deepened the Gulf's worst row in years, stoking fears of a damaging fall-out in the financial heart of the Middle East. Fiery accusations of rights abuses and betrayal have circulated for weeks in state-run and social media