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Key donors to the United Nations agency that aids civilians in Gaza have signaled they will continue to support the organization under the right conditions despite Israeli accusations that some of its employees were involved with terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7. That support, which comes as the Israeli …

Air defenses failed to stop an attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan on Sunday that killed three American soldiers at least in part because the hostile drone approached its target at the same time an American drone was returning to the base, two U.S. officials said on Monday. …

Donald Trump has warned ‘we are on the brink of World War Three’ as he blamed Joe Biden for Iran-back terrorists killing three American soldiers in Jordan.     The former Republican president blasted the Biden administration’s ‘weakness and surrender’ a day after the suicide drone strike on a remote compound near the Syrian …

Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine’s security service has reported.   This comes as Kyiv attempts to clamp down on corruption to speed up EU and NATO membership …

A kaffiyeh draped over his dark suit, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa stared intently at a projection screen on Friday afternoon as it showed the International Court of Justice delivering its preliminary ruling in the genocide case his nation brought against Israel. He occasionally scribbled notes on a pad, …

Qatar has rebuked Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he allegedly criticised the Gulf country’s role as a mediator in the Gaza war as “problematic” in a leaked recording. At a meeting this week with the families of captives being held in Gaza, Netanyahu blamed Qatar for financing Hamas and …

As a plumbing tycoon, Patrick Racz was used to enduring a deluge. But circumstances led to a very different kind of drenching, sitting in his local park in the rain contemplating the demise of his business during the dotcom crash. “I lost everything. I had young children. I was embarrassed, …

The Biden administration plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi militia as a terrorist organization, partly reimposing penalties it lifted nearly three years ago on the Iran-backed group whose attacks on Red Sea shipping traffic have drawn a U.S. military response. Beginning in mid-February, the United States will consider the Houthis a …

As the war enters its 686th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. Fighting Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would do everything it could to halt Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod as Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had brought down 10 rockets …

The global economy is at risk of a “wasted” decade and the weakest stretch of growth in 30 years, the World Bank warned on Tuesday, saying a sluggish recovery from the pandemic and crippling wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are expected to weigh heavily on output. In its …