Former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar‘s widow, Samar Abu Zamer, entered the Hamas tunnel with children, later went to Turkey with a fake passport, according to Ynet. As conditions worsen under Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, reports indicate that families of high-ranking Hamas leaders have departed the territory, sparking local discontent.Ynet suggest that prominent Hamas officials’ families […]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed three sweeping executive orders aimed at reshaping America’s artificial intelligence landscape, most notably taking direct aim at what the White House described as “woke” AI models. The orders are part of Trump’s broader campaign against diversity initiatives and come as he pledges to make the US an “AI […]
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American, has been elected as Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to head the Roman Catholic Church. Chosen by 133 cardinals, Pope Leo takes charge of the 1.4 billion-strong global Catholic community after the death of Pope Francis. Here are ten key facts about the new […]
The International Criminal Court On Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for systematically persecuting women, girls, and others who defied the group’s strict gender policies. The warrants named Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s Supreme Leader, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the regime’s Chief Justice.According to a statement from […]
Zohran Mamdani earlier said he would redirect NYPD’s budget and won’t hire more cops. Amid a major meltdown over the victory of Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary of the New York mayoral election, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said Mamdani has no understanding about how the police department works, and that’s why […]
US defense secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday (local time) announced the new name – USNS Oscar V Peterson – of USNS Harvey Milk, days after he directed the United States Navy to rename the ship.“We are taking the politics out of ship naming,” he wrote on X along with a video announcing the move.The “politics” […]
ECOWAS gets a new leader at pivotal time for West Africa (Image: AP) Nigerian President Bola Tinubu led the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for just under two years as its rotating chairman. But, in that short period, the main political and economic body in the region witnessed some of the biggest challenges […]
A Republican leader has now nominated Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for brokering Israel-Iran truce. A Republican lawmaker, Buddy Carter, wrote to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, nominating the US President for the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing the world’s largest “state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet”. […]
TBILISI: A court in Georgia on Monday sentenced a prominent opposition leader to eight months in prison, in the latest case critics say is part of a mounting crackdown on dissent.Georgia has been in political turmoil since the ruling Georgian Dream party won parliamentary elections last October.Its results were disputed by the opposition and sparked […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing a storm of ridicule online after a series of odd, decade-old tweets resurfaced just as Iran entered a direct conflict with Israel. The newly dug-up posts, some from as far back as 2013, include light-hearted personal reflections that stand in sharp contrast to his current war-driven rhetoric.Also […]
