Category: 4. World

US President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Washington on Thursday to mark a peace agreement aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Congo’s President…

A prominent Palestinian militia leader in Gaza who opposed Hamas has been killed.

Yasser Abu Shabab headed the so-called Popular Forces group, which has dozens of fighters and operates in Israeli-controlled territory near the southern city of…

Putin questions US pressure on India’s Russian oil purchases as Modi gives the Russian president a warm welcome.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned Washington’s stance on India’s oil purchases from Moscow, pointing to US imports…

The parents of the last dead hostage in Gaza have spoken to the BBC about their desperate wait for his body to be returned.

Itzik and Talik Gvili insisted the Gaza peace deal could not progress until Hamas handed over the remains of their son Ran,…

It’s been over a decade since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and the 239 souls on board vanished over the southern Indian Ocean. Years of extensive, international search efforts have failed to locate the plane, but an American…

While negotiations regarding the US’ plan to end the war in Ukraine are underway, Russia has announced the capture of the cities of Pokrovsk and Vovchansk in the region of Donetsk. The Ukrainian government denies this and accuses Russia of…

Summary of some core findings in the major nine-country poll released on Thursday by French magazine Le Grand Continent: 

• Just over half of respondents (51%) felt the risk of war with Russia was elevated
• More than 80% did not believe that…

Anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab was killed Thursday, Israeli defense sources said, in what they described as an “internal clash” — i.e., not with Hamas — in the southern Gaza Strip.

Abu Shabab was taken to a hospital in…