India’s U-19 team will be eager to avenge their senior team’s loss to Australia in the World Cup final. India’s Under-19 team step onto the field to play the ICC World Cup final with a desire for redemption, hoping to avenge their senior counterparts’ home defeat to Australia in international cricket’s showpiece event. Three months…
At least 10 children among the dead as fears of an Israeli ground assault intensify in southern Gaza. The Israeli military has killed at least 28 Palestinians in strikes on Rafah immediately after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled that an invasion of the city in southern Gaza may be close. Three air raids on residential…
Relatives find body of Hind Rajab who had begged rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire. The body of a six-year-old Palestinian girl, missing for 12 days after an Israeli tank targeted their family car in Gaza, has been found along with the bodies of two medics dispatched to look for…
They were lured by the promise of $3,000 paycheques and Russian citizenship. Now they’re trapped, wounded or dead. Kathmandu, Nepal – On a bitterly cold morning in early January, somewhere near Tokmak city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Bimal Bhandari* began a risky journey to desert the Russian army he had been serving with. The 32-year-old Nepali…
Three children among the dead, says official, as the Russian attack triggers fire and damages homes. An overnight Russian drone attack has killed at least seven people, including three children, in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv, officials say. Regional Governor Oleg Synegubov said on Telegram on Saturday three children, aged seven, four, and six months,…
Elections in Taiwan highlight dissatisfaction in China with a political system that Beijing says works best for Chinese people. If free and fair national elections are considered the hallmark of a democratic state, Taiwan has much to boast about. In January, the self-ruled island held its eighth presidential election concurrently with a parliamentary vote. Just…
Palestinians brace for Rafah evacuation Trapped in and around Rafah, more than 1 million Palestinians braced for Israel to complete a plan to evacuate them and launch a ground assault against Hamas fighters in the southern Gaza city. Aid agencies warned that large numbers of civilians could die in the Israeli offensive and the U.N….
The visitors’ arrival comes as Moscow and Pyongyang bolster ties, pledging closer economic and military cooperation. A group of Russian tourists have arrived in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, becoming the first foreign group to visit the country since the COVID-19 pandemic. An Air Koryo flight carried the 100 visitors to Pyongyang International Airport on…
What Africa needs from the African Union is not empty statements about ‘unity’ and ‘brotherly relations’, but the resolve to uphold the rule of law. On January 23, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke to Al Jazeera and warned that Ethiopia should not attempt to fulfil a controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the breakaway…
US tells Israel it won’t support ‘unplanned’ Rafah offensive as President Biden calls Gaza attacks ‘over the top’. Israel is ramping up its attacks on Rafah as it prepares to mount a ground offensive despite warnings of catastrophic consequences for displaced Palestinians and the United States saying it won’t back an assault on the southern Gaza Strip…
