Ukraine has discovered two more mass burial sites containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the northeastern town of Izium, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky made his comment in an …
Lebanon expects US mediator offer for maritime border with Israel within days
Lebanon expects a written offer from US mediator Amos Hochstein concerning the demarcation of a maritime border with Israel by the end of the week, Lebanon’s presidency tweeted on Monday. Lebanon’s deputy speaker of parliament Elias Bou Saab met with H…
How Nablus became the heart of the Palestinian struggle
The narrow alleyways of Nablus’ old city were in near total darkness as the sound of an approaching car grew louder. A pair of front lights suddenly appeared at the end of the road, exposing the closed storefronts on both sides of what during the day i…
Abbas’ two-state solution UN speech: Is anyone listening?
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas summarised the suffering of his people and called on the international community to recognise Palestine at 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly last week. He spoke after the idea of the two-state solut…
Jewish pilgrims gather in Ukraine despite invasion
Thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims flocked to central Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year Sunday, ignoring international travel warnings as Russia struck more targets from the air and mobilised its citizens to stem losses in the war that has entered …
Ukraine receives US air defence system
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Ukraine had received sophisticated air defence systems from the United States. It was the first acknowledgment that Ukraine had received the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Mis…
Iran protests Western stances on protests
Iran summoned the British and Norwegian ambassadors over what it called interference and hostile media coverage of nationwide unrest triggered by the death of a woman detained by morality police, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Sunday. Forei…
Pakistan police arrest journalist they say aided son’s crime
Pakistani police arrested a veteran journalist for his alleged involvement in his son’s beating death of his new wife at their suburban home, police said Sunday. Police officer Mohammad Faizan said Ayaz Amir, a well-known columnist and TV political ana…
Ukraine ridicules Moscow’s partial mobilisation on Twitter
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry on Sunday ridiculed Moscow’s partial mobilisation to bolster its forces in Ukraine, posting on Twitter a mash-up of social media videos of Russian police beating and arresting men protesting the call-up. The mockery came …
Mahsa Amini: Latest Iran protests likely not last for Tehran
Only glimpses of videos that make it online show the protests convulsing Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation’s morality police. But those flashes show that public anger across the country, once only simmering,…