CAIRO: The Qatar Red Crescent and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) signed on Sunday an agreement to allocate $4.5 million from a Qatari development fund. The funding will assist over 4,400 Palestinian workers and patients stranded in the West Bank due to ongoing Israeli aggression and…
Despite nightly protests involving thousands of people, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the airwaves for two hours this week to explain why freeing the remaining hostages still held by Hamas militants in Gaza is not his top priority, but the “second” goal of the war. “No one will preach to me,” he fired…
Coca-Cola and rival PepsiCo spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades building demand for their soft drinks in Muslim-majority countries including Egypt to Pakistan. Now, both face a challenge from local sodas in those countries due to consumer boycotts targeting the brands as symbols of America, and by extension Israel, at a time of war in…
The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday against top Hamas leaders for their alleged roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. The charges against Yahya Sinwar, the militant group’s chief, and at least five others accuse them of orchestrating the Oct. 7 attack, which killed 1,200 people, according to…
A U.K.-based aid group said one of its employees, Hosam Mansour, in Gaza was killed on Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit its warehouse. The Israel Defence Forces posted on Telegram saying Mansour was part of Hamas’s military wing. Three other workers were killed in the attack from other aid groups. All four were transferred to the…
It was a chaotic scene outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Tuesday, as cars rushed by transporting the dead and wounded from an Israeli airstrike that hit the Al-Awda school, once a place of refuge for Palestinian families in Gaza. The screams of survivors pierced through the chaos. People carried the injured — children and adults…
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hardliner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement of the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic. Pezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran’s Shia theocracy in his campaign and long has…
Canada held top-ranked Argentina scoreless in the first half but conceded a Julian Alvarez goal early in the second, eventually falling 2-0 to the star-studded South Americans in the opening match of Copa America on Thursday. The 48th-ranked Canadians did not look out of place in the high-profile game. They had chances in an entertaining…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday held a telephone conversations with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani on the auspicious occasion of Eid ul Adha. The prime minister expressed his heartiest felicitations to the Sultan, the government, and the people of Oman, and prayed for…
A United Nations inquiry found on Wednesday that both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes in the early stages of the war in Gaza, and that Israel’s actions also constituted crimes against humanity because of the immense civilian losses. The findings were from two parallel reports by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI), one…
