Microsoft fired two employees on Wednesday after they broke into the office of its vice chair and company president, Brad Smith, earlier this week as part of a protest of the technology company’s purported links to Israel. The terminations came after a group of seven people broke into executive offices at Microsoft’s global headquarters in…
President Trump will chair a meeting at the White House aimed at breaking the impasse on negotiations between Israel and Hamas and mapping out a postwar plan for Gaza, three officials said. PREMIUM Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion as seen from the Israeli side of the border, August 25, 2025.(REUTERS) Wednesday’s meeting, which…
UN officials and aid agencies have warned that famine in Gaza is now a reality, with children increasingly dying of hunger as Israel’s siege and bombardment continue to block essential, life-saving aid. In a stark address to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, officials said famine and widespread hunger in the besieged enclave are “engineered”…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV demanded Wednesday that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the besieged territory amid preparations by Israel for a new military offensive. Leo was interrupted twice by applause as he read aloud his latest…
The Palestinian group says no fighters were killed in the Israeli military’s double-tap attack on Nasser Hospital. Hamas has said that none of the 21 people killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital was a member of the Palestinian movement, after the Israeli military claimed it had targeted a Hamas surveillance camera and killed…
Hamas agreed to the proposal, which was put forward by mediators Egypt and Qatar more than 10 days ago. Israel seems “unwilling to reach an agreement” as it has not yet responded to the ceasefire proposal agreed by Hamas earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson of mediator Qatar said. While Qatar pledged to continue…
LOD, Israel (AP) — Protesters in Israel on Tuesday torched tires, blocked highways and clamored for a ceasefire that would free hostages still in Gaza, as Israeli leaders pressed ahead with plans for an offensive which they argue is needed to crush Hamas. The disruption came as Palestinians in Gaza braced for the expanded offensive…
Updated on: Aug 25, 2025 11:08 pm IST Netanyahu says Israel “values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians”; military is investigating the strike Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country’s twin airstrikes on a hospital in Gaza that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was a “tragic mishap” and that…
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s presidential communications office on Monday called Israel’s latest strikes on Gaza “an attack on press freedom and another war crime,” after Palestinian officials said at least 20 people, including five journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, were killed at Nasser hospital. “Israel, which continues its atrocities without regard for any humanitarian…
(Reuters) – Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said. Cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, was killed in the first strike, according to the officials. Photographer Hatem Khaled, who was also a Reuters contractor, was…