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Gulf airlines cancel flights to Pakistan as northern India airport closures disrupt routes

DUBAI — Several Gulf carriers have suspended flights to Pakistan, including Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways, with airport closures in northern India also affecting many flight routes.Emirates has canceled flights from Dubai to Sialkot, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar on Wednesday. “Customers on canceled flights must not proceed to the airport,” it said on its website.Flights to and from Karachi are not impacted and will be operating as per schedule, the airline said.Etihad said it had canceled flights to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad on Wednesday.“Additionally, some other services may be rerouted to avoid the affected airspace, potentially resulting in extended flight times,” Etihad Airways said in a statement.Qatar Airways said it had “temporarily suspended flights” to...

May 07, 2025

Gulf airlines cancel flights to Pakistan as northern India airport closures disrupt routes

Smoke billows after an artillery shell landed in Poonch district in India's Jammu and Kashmir region on Wednesday.

Death toll rises on both sides as India fires missiles into Pakistan in 'act of war'

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD — India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people — including a child — in what Pakistan's prime minister has called an "act of war."India said it had attacked infrastructure allegedly used by militants who carried out last month's massacre of tourists in Kashmir, control of which is split between India and Pakistan but which both countries claim in its entirety.Pakistan said it had shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation, with three planes falling onto villages in India-controlled Kashmir.Indian police and medics, meanwhile, said at least seven civilians were also killed in the region by Pakistani shelling.Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed...

May 07, 2025

Death toll rises on both sides as India fires missiles into Pakistan in 'act of war'

Smoke and flames at Port Sudan following paramilitary attack

Sudan paramilitary attacks leave key city without power

PORT SUDAN — Drone strikes have hit a major power station in the Sudanese city of Port Sudan causing a "complete power outage", the country's electricity provider said.Explosions and huge fires have been reported near the city's main international airport as a paramilitary force targeted the key city for the third consecutive day.Flights have been canceled after drones hit the international airport and a hotel near the current presidential palace, reports say."I see a huge cloud and fire going like all around the city... and I heard also now that they were like two more loud bangs. It looks quite apocalyptic," a journalist, Cristina Karrer, told the BBC's Newsday program.On Tuesday, Sudan's electricity company said it was assessing the damage on its...

May 07, 2025

Sudan paramilitary attacks leave key city without power

Palestinians collect belongings from a school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit twice by Israeli army strikes in Bureij, 7 May, 2025

At least 59 people killed in strikes across Gaza as Israel prepares to ramp up offensive

GAZA — Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 59 people, including women and children, hospital officials have said as Israel prepares to ramp up its campaign against Hamas militants.The strikes included an attack on Tuesday night on a school sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, which killed 27 people, officials from the Al-Aqsa Hospital said, including nine women and three children.It was the fifth time since the war began that the school in central Gaza has been struck.An early morning strike on another school turned shelter in Gaza City killed 16 people, according to officials at Al-Ahli Hospital, while strikes on targets in other areas killed at least 16 others.A large column of smoke rose and fires pierced the skies above the school shelter in Bureij, a built-up...

May 07, 2025

At least 59 people killed in strikes across Gaza as Israel prepares to ramp up offensive

Claudia Macero (L), Pedro Uchurrurtu (C) and Magalli Meda are photographed greeting the media in August from the embassy where they had been sheltering

Five Venezuelan opposition members 'rescued' from Caracas, US says

WASHINGTON — Five Venezuelan political figures holed up at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas to avoid arrest have been brought to the US after a "successful rescue" mission, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said."The US welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas," Rubio wrote in a post on X. "Following a precise operation, all hostages are now safely on US soil."Venezuelan forces had surrounded the embassy since last year, where the five politicians opposed to President Nicolás Maduro had been taking refuge.Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she was thankful "to all those who made it possible".Machado hailed their escape as "an impeccable and epic...

May 07, 2025

Five Venezuelan opposition members 'rescued' from Caracas, US says

An Indian paramilitary soldier keeps watch from behind a fence in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir

Indian and Pakistani civilians describe the aftermath of strikes and shelling

MUZAFFARABAD — Mohammed Waheed was fast asleep at his home in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the early hours of Wednesday morning when a huge blast shook his home."Before we could even process what was happening, more missiles struck, causing widespread panic and chaos," he told the BBC, adding that he had jumped out of bed and run outside along with his family and neighbors."Children were crying, women were running around, trying to find safety."Waheed lives in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir — it is one of at least three places that were hit by Indian missile strikes on Wednesday.The Indian military said it carried out the strikes in response to a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 civilians. It has blamed...

May 07, 2025

Indian and Pakistani civilians describe the aftermath of strikes and shelling

Volunteers carry a body after recovering it from the rubble of a mosque near Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir

Pakistan summons Indian envoy to protest strikes

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it summoned the Indian chargé d’affaires in Islamabad – the head of India’s diplomatic mission in the country – to formally protest India’s strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday.“It was conveyed that India’s blatant act of aggression constitutes a clear violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Such actions are in contravention of the UN Charter, international law, and established norms governing inter-state relations,” the ministry said.“Pakistan firmly rejected India’s baseless justifications for its hostile conduct.”It called the strikes “unprovoked,” saying they had killed several civilians including women and children, and warned that India’s military action posed a...

May 07, 2025

Pakistan summons Indian envoy to protest strikes

Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Shara at a press conference in Ankara, 4 February, 2025

Syria's interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa visits Paris in first official trip to Europe

PARIS — Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa will visit Paris on Wednesday for talks with President Emmanuel Macron, his first trip to Europe since taking office in January and a possible opening to broader ties with Western countries.Al-Sharaa took power after his Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led a lightning offensive that toppled long-time former President Bashar al-Assad in December.Al-Assad, a member of Syria’s Alawite minority, ruled for more than two decades and fled to Russia after he was toppled.The Élysée Palace said Macron will restate France's support for "a free, stable, sovereign Syria that respects all components of its society," while emphasizing the importance of regional stability and the fight against terrorism.The visit comes...

May 07, 2025

Syria's interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa visits Paris in first official trip to Europe

Smoke rises over the city of Sanaa, on 6 May, following an Israeli air strike

Israel attacks main airport in Yemen's capital Sanaa

TEL AVIV — The Israeli military has said it "fully disabled" Yemen's main airport in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis. Tuesday's strikes targeted three civilian planes, the departures hall, the runway and a military air base, airport sources told Reuters. An official told AFP that the airport had been "completely destroyed". The Houthis said at least three people had been killed and vowed to respond. It comes two days after the Iran-backed Houthis fired a missile that landed near Israel's main airport, forcing it to close briefly. Israel began responding on Monday by striking the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah, then targeted Sanaa airport the next day. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that anyone targeting Israel...

May 07, 2025

Israel attacks main airport in Yemen's capital Sanaa

Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine, Biden says

DELAWARE — Joe Biden has told the BBC that pressure from the Trump administration on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia is "modern-day appeasement" in an exclusive interview, his first since leaving the White House.Speaking in Delaware on Monday, he said Russian President Vladimir Putin believed Ukraine was part of Russia and "anybody that thinks he's going to stop" if some territory is conceded as part of a peace deal "is just foolish".Biden, who spoke as Allied nations mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day this week, said he was concerned about US-Europe relations breaking down under President Donald Trump, which he said "would change the modern history of the world".In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Radio 4's Today program, Biden...

May 07, 2025

Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine, Biden says

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