The world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year as demand was fed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as countries’ rising military spending, according to a report released Monday. Twenty-three of the 26 companies in Europe, excluding Russia, saw their…
Hospital authorities on Wednesday said that the death toll in Gaza from overnight Israeli strikes rose to 81. The new report came as the Israeli military said the ceasefire was back in effect after it carried out heavy airstrikes across Gaza.(Reuters) Earlier, at least 60 people, including several children, were reported dead. Shifa Hospital Director…
The military chief of Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been killed in an Israeli attack, the Iran-backed group said on Thursday, threatening revenge. Supporters of Yemen’s Huthis gather to celebrate the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa on October 10, 2025.(AFP) Major General Mohammed al-Ghamari died in “honourable battle against the Israeli enemy”, a military…
President Donald Trump complained in a late-night social media post that TIME magazine had published a photo of him that “may be the Worst of All Time” to accompany a fawning article about the Gaza ceasefire deal. The president acknowledged that the piece—which ran on the cover with the title “His Triumph”—was “a relatively good…
Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has defanged a range of militant actors who despise the U.S. and have killed Americans. Yet the Gaza war, with its substantial civilian casualties, has turned much of the Democratic Party against Israel and fractured European-Israeli relations. Israel’s…
Last Updated:October 06, 2025, 07:00 IST If US President Donald Trump’s plan ends the Gaza war, it would be a peace achievement on a historic scale. But it is a big ‘if’ US President Donald Trump with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. (Image: AFP/File) The world is tired of war, and one man says he has…
Hamas has accepted some elements of the Trump administration’s plan to end the war with Israel, but the militant group says further discussions are needed on other issues.It remains to be seen if those gaps can be bridged, but Israel’s army says it is advancing preparations for the first phase of President Trump’s plan in…
However, it also poses a dilemma for China, which has strong relations with both countries, including a long-standing collaboration with Riyadh on its civilian nuclear programme. Analysts suggested Beijing would not wish this nuclear partnership to develop further to avoid provoking the US or giving the impression it was encouraging nuclear proliferation. When asked whether…
Canada has formally recognised a Palestinian state, aligning itself with European allies and pushing ahead with a policy that has drawn criticism from US President Donald Trump. Pro-Gaza protesters holds Palestinian flags as they protest against Israel’s offensive on the Gaza strip in Rotterdam on September 21, 2025.(AFP) Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office announced the…
On the ground, the two-state solution is more remote than ever. Trust between the two peoples of the Holy Land is plumbing historic depths, as Israel’s military campaign in Gaza—by far the deadliest round of war in the century-old conflict—escalates once more. Polls, which in the 1990s and early 2000s consistently indicated majority support on…