U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas on Monday to swiftly accept Israel’s latest and “extraordinarily generous” proposal for a Gaza truce to secure a release of hostages, amid a diplomatic drive to end the war between Israel and Hamas. Hamas negotiators were expected to meet Qatari...
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Russia’s economy will grow by 2.8 per cent this year and expand at a slightly slower 2.5 per cent in 2025, Vienna-based think tank has forecasted. The forecast defies predictions that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to economic ruin. Vasily Astrov, an economist with the Vienna Institute...
U.S. President Joe Biden wants to start delivering of weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week. The president said this shortly after the U.S. Senate approved billions of dollars in new aid for the country under attack from Russia. “I will sign this bill into law and address...
The Group of Seven (G7) has strongly condemned Iran for its attacks on Israel but also called on both parties to de-escalate amid reports of Israeli retaliation. A meeting of foreign ministers from the group of industrialised democracies has been under way on the Italian island of Capri...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – No fewer than 33,634 Palestinians have been killed and at least 76,214 wounded in Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip. In addition, 462 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while 13,000 Palestinians are reportedly missing in the...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says Ukrainians remain under “constant attack” and 3.3 million people living on the frontline need emergency assistance urgently. IOM’s Director General, Ms Amy Pope, in a statement, warned that the situation had worsened in Ukraine after rocket fire killed dozens in the...
The United States expects an attack by Iran against Israel but one that would not be big enough to draw Washington into war, a U.S. fofficial said late on Thursday. The White House said earlier that Washington did not want conflict to spread in the Middle East and...
No fewer than 29 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, the official news agency WAFA reported. The people died when a residential building was struck. Dozens of people were also injured in the attack. The Israel Defense Force in a statement on Friday, said the...
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets again on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing religious government. This is happening as there is no sign of a let-up in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza almost six months in. In Tel Aviv, demonstrators called for early...
• As experts warn that anthropogenic sources account for 60% methane emissions Concerned stakeholders in the environment protection space have expressed alarm that more than fossil fuel, that human-induced or anthropogenic methane emissions, have emerged as the new threat to Nigerians. Rising from a seminar in Port Harcourt, Rivers...
U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed optimism about an imminent ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement in the Gaza war. “My national security adviser tells me that we are close. “We’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we’ll have a ceasefire,’’ he...
Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday morning, striking facilities in several cities across the country, Ukrainian authorities said. At least one person was injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, where a missile hit an industrial site, said the head of the regional military...
The Israeli army said that 21 soldiers have been killed in the central Gaza Strip, marking the deadliest single incident for the troops in the more than three-month-old war against Hamas militants. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari, speaking after a news blackout was lifted on Tuesday morning, said the...
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday defended its October 7 attacks against Israel but admitted to “faults” and called for an end to “Israeli aggression” in Gaza, where the health ministry said the death toll passed 25,000. Southern Gaza is the latest focus of Israel’s battle to...
Israel on Thursday faces accusations of genocide over the war in Gaza before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. The ICJ, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, will hear a case brought by South Africa that accuses Israel of violating the UN Genocide Convention due...
Israel is sending a former judge of the country’s Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, to the hearing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Gaza war. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed media reports on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to the...
Nigeria has hit another milestone. It has graduated into a hybrid state, a distinction it shares with very few other nations. Simultaneously, Nigeria is at war and in peace. The United Nations has observed that literally the entire northern half of the country is a virtual war...
Israel is to face accusation of genocide before an international court, with hearings based on a South African complaint scheduled for January 11 and 12. The dates were announced Wednesday evening by the International Court of Justice, the highest UN court, in The Hague. According to the court,...
Hamas-controlled health authority said that the number of Gaza Strip residents killed in Israeli attacks had risen to 22,185. The authority, on Tuesday announced that it was 207 more than the previous day’s figure, while 57,035 people have been injured since the start of the war. However,...
North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un wrapped up the year with fresh threats of a nuclear attack on Seoul and orders for a military arsenal build-up to prepare for a war that can “break out any time” on the peninsula, state media reported Sunday. Kim lambasted...