The Palestinian Authority on Monday said Israel’s decision to halt the electricity supply to Gaza was “an escalation in the genocide” in the war-ravaged territory.
The Palestinian foreign ministry said in a statement that it “strongly condemns the Israeli Ministry of Energy’s decision to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip, considering it an escalation in the genocide, displacement and humanitarian disaster in Gaza,” which is controlled by Hamas and not the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority.
Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed on the text of a peace treaty to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process. The two post-Soviet countries have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s…
President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide said Thursday that the U.S.-proposed 30-day cease-fire in Ukraine would offer Russia “nothing” while providing Kyiv’s forces with a crucial battlefield break. Since mid-2024, Russian forces have been advancing and now control nearly a fifth of Ukraine, three years after launching a full-scale invasion that U.S. President Donald…
‘Nobody is expelling any Palestinians,’ Trump said in response to a reporter’s question in Oval Office The Palestinian group Hamas on Thursday welcomed a statement by US President Donald Trump showing an apparent retreat from his proposed displacement plan of Palestinians from the war-devastated Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, Trump said during a meeting in the…
Ukrainian president says Kyiv welcomes Washington’s proposal Kyiv was prepared for a ceasefire in air and at sea with Russia, but the US proposed extending it to land during Tuesday’s talks in Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on Thursday. “Ukraine was ready for an air and sea ceasefire, but the US proposed extending…
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with US proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but that any ceasefire would have to deal with the root causes of the conflict and that many details needed to be sorted out. Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, triggering the biggest confrontation between…
Document outlines judicial reforms and governance structure after Assad’s ouster Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a draft constitutional declaration on Thursday, establishing a five-year transitional period for the country. An expert committee tasked with drafting the document presented it to Sharaa, outlining key provisions for the post-Assad era. The declaration also mandates the dissolution of…
