UNGA overwhelmingly adopts resolution endorsing New York Declaration on Palestinian statehood

UN General Assembly adopts France-Saudi resolution backing Palestinian state, two-state solution; 142 countries vote in favour.
13 Sep, 2025
Israel’s Netanyahu says West Bank ‘belongs to us’ despite widespread condemnation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that there would be “no Palestinian state,” speaking at a signing ceremony for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank.
12 Sep, 2025
Elon Musk no longer world’s richest man, new ranking says

Larry Ellison is now worth $393 billion, Bloomberg says, several billion more than Elon Musk, who had been the world’s richest for four years running.
11 Sep, 2025
UAE bars Israel from defence conference after Qatar strike

The UAE has barred Israeli defence firms from participating in a defence conference set to be held in Dubai next month, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
10 Sep, 2025

Zelenskyy urges ‘joint’ air defence with Europe after Russian drones downed in Poland

US revises down its annual job growth by 911,000

UN chief Guterres condemns Israeli strikes on Qatar

Netanyahu boasts Israel bombed 50 Gaza high-rises in 2 days, vows more

Popular Gaza ice cream parlour stirs nostalgia with first UAE branch
8 Sep, 2025
Remembering Aysenur Ezgi Eygi: The struggle for justice continues
A tribute to the 26-year-old activist, writer, and friend whose life and death reveal both the brutality of Israeli military violence and the failures of US officials to seek accountability.

8 Sep, 2025
Trump meeting gave Putin what the Russian leader ‘wanted’: Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has faulted US President Donald Trump’s Alaska summit last month with President Vladimir Putin, saying that it handed the Russian leader “what he wanted.”

7 Sep, 2025
Pope Leo urges peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and other parts of the world
Pope Leo XIV called for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine, and other conflict-affected regions during Sunday prayers at Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

7 Sep, 2025
Russia hits seat of Ukraine government in war’s biggest air attack
Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early on Sunday, killing at least two people and setting the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kiev ablaze, authorities said.

6 Sep, 2025
700 days of Israeli war leave 90% of Gaza destroyed, $68B in losses: media office
Media office says more than 73,000 killed or missing, thousands of health workers and journalists among dead.

6 Sep, 2025
How China is positioning itself as a defender of post-WWII order
While the Trump administration seeks to reshape the global order through tariffs and unilateral actions, China is showcasing itself, alongside Russia and North Korea, as ready to challenge US supremacy.

5 Sep, 2025
Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future
In the race to master artificial intelligence, the United States and China are not just building faster algorithms; they are constructing rival blueprints for the digital world’s future.

5 Sep, 2025
Trump says will speak to Putin soon as Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv
US president signals new talks with Kremlin while attacks in Kharkiv and Chernigiv kill civilians and aid workers.

4 Sep, 2025
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani dies aged 91
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, founder of the luxury brand carrying his name, has died at the age of 91, the company announced on Thursday.

4 Sep, 2025
Hot mic: Xi and Putin discuss long life, human immortality
Russian President Putin tells his Chinese counterpart Xi that new biotechnology could enable humans to live longer lives and possibly achieve immortality.




