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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – It is 5:30 in the morning. The sun hasn’t fully risen, but 15-year-old Mahmoud rubs the sleep from his eyes.He woke up this morning not in a warm bed, but on a thin mattress in a crowded tent – displaced, like hundreds of thousands of others in Gaza.And Mahmoud did not reach for a schoolbag to get ready for school. Instead, he picked up a rough, frayed burlap sack.“The sack is empty now, but I feel its weight even before I fill it,” Mahmoud said, as he looked at his palms, calloused and scarred from…
United States President Donald Trump has concluded a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that “nothing definitive” had been reached during their exchange.But he added that US talks with Iran would continue, as he pushes for Tehran to concede to a list of demands.“It was a very good meeting, the tremendous relationship between our two Countries continues,” Trump said of Israel.“There was nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a Deal can be consummated.”Wednesday’s meeting was Trump’s sixth time hosting Netanyahu in the US since the…
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov did not say why he believed the US would respect the limits set out in New START.Published On 11 Feb 202611 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareRussia has said it will abide by limits on its nuclear weapons as set out in a lapsed arms control treaty with the United States, as long as Washington continues to do the same.The New START agreement expired earlier this month, leaving the world’s two biggest nuclear-armed powers with no binding constraints on their strategic arsenals for the first time in more than half a century and sparking…
Tottenham sack the Danish manager after a torrid eight-match winless run and with the side in 16th place on the ladder.Published On 11 Feb 202611 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareTottenham Hotspur have sacked manager Thomas Frank after eight months in charge, the Premier League club said on Wednesday, after a woeful run of results left the North London club hovering five points above the relegation zone.Pressure on Frank had been mounting, and Tuesday’s 2-1 home defeat by Newcastle United left his team in 16th place with 29 points from 26 matches and looking over their shoulder at…
Nahid Islam was just 26 when he stepped up to a microphone at Dhaka’s Shaheed Minar, a national monument, on August 3, 2024, and uttered a single rallying cry: “Hasina must go.”Student-led demonstrations had begun weeks earlier over a government job quota system that reserved a large share of coveted civil-service posts for special groups, including descendants of 1971 liberation war veterans, leaving too few merit-based opportunities for everyone else.When then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government moved to crush the protesters with lethal force, the backlash only swelled – turning a youth-led revolt into a nationwide movement that, within days, brought…
Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez has said that the country will not hold presidential elections in the immediate future, emphasising that the government’s current focus is on national stability.His comments came late on Monday in an interview published with the conservative outlet Newsmax in the United States.Presidential terms run for six years in Venezuela, and the last election was controversially held in 2024. Newsmax host Rob Schmitt asked if that meant another election would not happen for another five years.“The only thing I could say is that there will not be an election in this immediate period of time…
Departing for Washington, DC, Israeli prime minister hails his close ties to the US president amid nuclear talks with Iran.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will present Donald Trump with “principles” for negotiating with Iran as he heads to Washington, DC, for his sixth official visit with the US president over the past year.Netanyahu hailed the “unique closeness” between Israel and the United States and his own warm ties to Trump before leaving Tel Aviv on Tuesday.“I will present Trump with principles for negotiations with Iran that are important not only to Israel but to everyone who wants peace…
An anticorruption watchdog has warned in its latest report of worsening corruption in democracies around the world, with the score of the United States slipping to its lowest, raising concerns about developments in the US and the impact of its funding cuts around the world.Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) said on Tuesday that the average global score in its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) had hit 42 on a scale of zero to 100, its lowest level in more than a decade.The group’s index assigns a score between zero (highly corrupt) and 100 (very clean), based on data reflecting the assessments…
On a recent trip from Germany, where he lives, to his hometown of Aleppo, Alhakam Shaar made a decision. He would not stay at a hotel or with friends. Instead, he would stay at what used to be his father’s office in Aleppo’s Old City.There was only one problem.“Not a single room had a closable window or door,” Shaar, who had been away from the city for a decade, told Al Jazeera. Aleppo’s winters are brutally cold, with temperatures reaching well below zero degrees Celsius.Still, he bought a sleeping bag that had been advertised as capable of withstanding extreme weather.“That…
UN spokesperson says the international body is ‘waiting to see exactly when payments’ will be made by Washington.Published On 9 Feb 20269 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe United Nations has asked the United States for clarity regarding unpaid budget dues, as declining US engagement puts the international organisation under growing strain.UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday that while the US ambassador, Mike Waltz, said last week that payments would begin within weeks, no further details had been offered.“We’ve seen the statements, and frankly, the secretary-general has been in touch for quite some time on this issue…
