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Fighting rages across Gaza amid revival of truce talks

Israeli strikes kill 77 people including senior Islamic Jihad militant in 24 hours

A wounded Palestinian man lies on a stretcher at the floor of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, on March 31, 2024.

Netanyahu cancels delegation visit to US after UN vote

Washington’s failure to veto was clear retreat from its previous position, he says

“In light of the change in the American position, Prime Minister Netanyahu decided the delegation would not leave,” Netanyahu's office said.

Double cancer blow leaves UK royal family depleted

Charles is ‘frustrated’ by the pace of his recuperation from cancer

In this Tuesday, September 28, 2021 photo, Britain's Prince Charles speaks with Kate as they arrive for the World premiere of the new film from the James Bond franchise 'No Time To Die', in London.

India stares at water crisis as reservoir levels slide

150 reservoirs filled to just 40% of capacity last week, government data shows

People wait in a queue with cans to collect drinking water amid an ongoing water crisis in Bengaluru.

Hopes dim for Gaza truce ahead of Ramadan

Netanyahu: Israel will push on with offensive against Hamas, including in Rafah

Packages fall towards northern Gaza, after being dropped from a military aircraft, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in southern Israel March 7, 2024.

Houthi militant attack hits ship, causing ‘fatalities’

Barbados-flagged vessel no longer under command of crew and that they have abandoned it

A view shows Barbados-flagged bulk carrier vessel True Confidence, in Ravenna, Italy, on March 10, 2022.

Putin warns West: Nuclear war if troops sent to Ukraine

‘They haven’t been through any tough challenges and they have forgotten what war means’

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow on February 29, 2024.

Chinese capital closes highways after heavy snowfall

Traffic disrupted and schools to cancel classes in northern and central China

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, visitors pose for a photo with the Forbidden City in the background at Jingshan Park following a snowfall in Beijing, on February 21, 2024.

Terrified Gazans say there’s nowhere left to go

Offensive on Rafah will be catastrophic, with 600,000 children in path of assault

People walk along a crowded main street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Nearly the last place spared an Israeli offensive so far, Rafah’s population has more than quintupled with Palestinians streaming in to escape fighting. They pack by the dozens into apartments. Sidewalks and once-empty lots are clogged with tents full of families.

5 dead in Pakistan poll violence; mobile services cut

Residents of ski resort of Murree brave heavy snowfall to head to vote

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Islamabad on February 8, 2024.

US hits 10 Houthi drones, downs unmanned Iran aircraft

Militant attacks on ships in and around Red Sea have slowed trade between Asia and Europe

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) operating in the Mediterranean Sea. The American naval destroyer shot down three Iranian drones along with an anti-ship missile fired by Yemen's Houthis on January 31, 2024.

India: Why are Gulmarg ski resorts in Kashmir empty?

Tourists cancel bookings, while residents suffer through dry winter waiting for snow

Tourists take a horse ride on grassy, snowless ski slopes in Gulmarg, northwest of Srinagar, on January 13, 2024. There is hardly any snow at Asia’s largest ski terrain in Gulmarg where thousands of domestic and international tourists would usually visit to ski and sledge its stunning snowscape in winter.

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