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US envoy Steve Witkoff, pictured in July, visited Gaza on Friday for the second time this year.
US envoy Witkoff visits Gaza aid distribution site as starvation crisis deepens
JERUSALEM — Steve Witkoff, the United States’ special envoy to the Middle East, on Friday visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza, one of three such locations near which hundreds of Palestinians have died in recent weeks as they tried to reach scarce food supplies.An Israeli source told CNN on Friday morning that Witkoff had arrived at the aid site in the southern city of Rafah that is run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).The GHF was created to replace the United Nations’ aid role in Gaza and has been widely criticized for failing to improve conditions as the starvation crisis deepens. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to get food, hundreds of them near GHF sites, according to the UN. The GHF disputes...
August 01, 2025

US envoy Witkoff visits Gaza aid distribution site as starvation crisis deepens

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, 21 June 2025
Genocide is taking place in Gaza and Europe is duty bound to stop it, Israeli scholar says
WASHINGTON — Voices describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide are rising: an increasing number of politicians, rights-defenders, historians and legal experts say there is a clear will on the part of the Jewish state to destroy the Palestinians as a group and render life in Gaza impossible.The accusations have been growing since South Africa launched a case at the UN’s top court of justice in December 2023 alleging Israel is committing genocide, an accusation Israel rejected as "baseless".Euronews spoke to Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, an Ivy League US institution, who argues that what is unfolding in Gaza amounts to genocide.Bartov, a genocide and Holocaust scholar, first described Israel’s response to the 7...
August 01, 2025

Genocide is taking place in Gaza and Europe is duty bound to stop it, Israeli scholar says

Young Ukrainians were outside parliament again on Thursday as MPs voted to overturn a controversial law
Young Ukrainians get their way as Zelensky overturns law to defuse crisis
KYIV — As Ukraine's MPs gathered at parliament in Kyiv on Thursday, some held cardboard signs that read, "We are with our people."It was a message to thousands of young protesters who had taken part in the biggest anti-government demonstrations since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. They were out in force again on Thursday.The MPs then entered parliament, the Rada, and took part in a vote that overwhelmingly overturned a law introduced by President Volodymyr Zelensky last week that curtailed the independence of two key anti-corruption agencies known as Nabu and Sap - the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.The signs carried by the MPs outside the Rada were a nod to the placards carried by thousands of young...
August 01, 2025

Young Ukrainians get their way as Zelensky overturns law to defuse crisis

Three people were killed when an apartment block was brought down
Kyiv toll rises to 26 after wave of Russian strikes defies Trump ceasefire demand
KYIV — The death toll from a barrage of Russian drones and missiles that struck several districts of Kyiv early on Thursday morning has risen to 26, including three children, while 159 others were wounded, officials said. The attack brought down an apartment block.A six-year-old boy and his mother were among the dead, as more than two dozen locations across the Ukrainian capital were hit.Ukraine's interior ministry said three children had died and 16 were among the wounded. Kyiv's mayor said it was the biggest number of children hurt in one night since the full-scale war began.Russian attacks have continued despite US President Donald Trump's threat to impose tougher sanctions on Moscow if Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire by 8 August.The toll was revised after...
August 01, 2025

Kyiv toll rises to 26 after wave of Russian strikes defies Trump ceasefire demand

Violent clashes broke out between security forces and Khan's supporters following his arrest on 9 May 2023
Pakistan jails 108 members of Imran Khan's party
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has sentenced to prison 108 members of jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, for their involvement in protests against the military in 2023.Violent protests erupted nationwide in May 2023 after security forces arrested Khan during his court appearance on corruption charges.Authorities have already handed down dozens of sentences in the last two years, but Thursday's convictions - which include a 10-year term for opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan - deal a major blow to Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.Opposition figures have denounced the rulings by the anti-terrorism court, which also disqualified six PTI lawmakers from their seats."For the first time in Pakistan's judicial history, such a sad and shameful incident occurred that...
August 01, 2025

Pakistan jails 108 members of Imran Khan's party

It is estimated that there are over 4 million undocumented Afghans living in Iran
Iran drives out 1.5 million Afghans, with some branded spies for Israel
SINGAPORE — Ali Ahmad's eyes fill with tears as he lifts his shirt to show deep bruises across his back.While he was detained, Iranian officers struck him and accused him of spying, he says. "They used hoses, water pipes and wooden boards to beat me. They treated us like animals."He was speaking to the BBC earlier this month at Islam Qala on the two countries' border, before crossing back over to Afghanistan. His name has been changed to protect his identity.Iran, which says it hosts more than four million undocumented Afghans who fled conflict in their homeland, has been stepping up deportations for months. In March those without papers were given a July deadline to depart voluntarily, but since a brief war with Israel in June, the authorities have forcibly returned...
August 01, 2025

Iran drives out 1.5 million Afghans, with some branded spies for Israel

US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will visit Gaza Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavett has confirmed
US envoy to visit Gaza, as hospital says dozens killed seeking food
JERUSALEM — US special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Gaza on Friday to inspect food distribution sites, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed.Leavitt said Witkoff would visit the territory along with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and "secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear first-hand about this dire situation on the ground".Witkoff, who is on a visit to Israel, also had a "productive" meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the press secretary added.Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 111 people had been killed, 91 of them while seeking aid, in the 24 hours before Thursday midday.A hospital director told the BBC that more than 50 Palestinians were killed and 400 others injured while...
August 01, 2025

US envoy to visit Gaza, as hospital says dozens killed seeking food

People stand at Baron viewpoint as a loud speaker announces the need to evacuate the area as a precaution in case of a tsunami in Valparaiso, 30 July, 2025
Chile and New Zealand maintain tsunami warnings as threat subsides in most places
WELLINGTON — Tsunami warnings remained in place in New Zealand and Chile on Thursday, one day after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia sent waves across the Pacific.Parts of Russia, Japan, Hawaii and the US West Coast were on alert throughout Wednesday, but warnings have been lifted as the danger appeared to be subsiding in most places.Authorities in New Zealand renewed an advisory late in the afternoon that urged people to stay out of the water and away from beaches.Officials said rebounding tsunami activity from South America meant that strong and unusual currents could continue for another 24 hours, a directive from authorities said.Emergency management officials said coastlines of New Zealand were experiencing strong currents and wave surges in the early hours of...
July 31, 2025

Chile and New Zealand maintain tsunami warnings as threat subsides in most places

France demands explanations from Vueling after French Jewish teenagers were removed from flight
Diplomatic row between France and Spain escalates after Jewish teens kicked off flight
PARIS — Tensions are escalating between Paris and Madrid following comments by Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente in the case involving the removal of a group of French Jewish teenagers from a flight in Spain.The incident occurred on 23 July, when a group of around 40 teens was removed from a plane at Valencia airport.Last Friday, Oscar Puente posted and then later deleted on the social media platform X, criticising Spanish conservative politicians for allegedly failing to back the airline and instead "supporting the Israeli brats."The post quickly drew ire from the French government, which also denounced the behaviour of Spanish law enforcement officers towards one of the group's adult chaperones.Videos on social media showed police holding the female counsellor on...
July 31, 2025

Diplomatic row between France and Spain escalates after Jewish teens kicked off flight

Three people were killed when an apartment block was brought down
Russian strikes hit Kyiv apartment block
KYIV — Eight people have been killed and more than 130 others were wounded in a barrage of Russian drones and missiles that struck several districts of Kyiv and brought down an apartment block overnight, Ukrainian officials have said. A six-year-old boy and his mother were among the dead, as more than two dozen locations across the capital were hit. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 12 children were among the wounded - the biggest number of children wounded in Kyiv in one night since the full-scale war began. Russian attacks have continued despite US President Donald Trump's threat to impose tougher sanctions on Moscow if Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire by 8 August. The high-pitched hum of Russian drones could be heard for hours over the city, interrupted by the...
July 31, 2025

Russian strikes hit Kyiv apartment block

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