An Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza killed a senior Hamas leader and an aide on Sunday evening, a Hamas official told the BBC. Ismail Barhoum, the head of the group’s financial affairs, was killed in the strike on Nasser Hospital, the main medical facility in Khan Younis. He was receiving treatment at … Read more
Palestinians carry the body of Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’ political bureau who was killed is an Israeli army strike of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, March 24, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP An Israeli air strike on Sunday (March 24, 2025) killed a member of Hamas’s political bureau as he … Read more
The first time Phylicia Rashad realized what she wanted to do with her life, she was making her way to the exit of a bustling auditorium. This was November 1959, in Houston, after a student music festival at the 9,000-seat Sam Houston Coliseum. Rashad, who was then Phylicia Allen, had been the festival’s mistress of … Read more
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has called for a national election on 28 April. The main contenders of the election are Carney, leader of the Liberal party, and Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative party. With Canada’s businesses reeling from a trade dispute with the US, Carney – a former two-time central banker – … Read more
Living in the gutted-out eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, Maryna has learned to recognise the sound of the devastating Russian glide bombs that have pounded her city for months. Equipped with wings to help them glide over dozens of kilometres, the bombs are part of an arsenal developed by Russia to let it hit deeper … Read more
The Trump administration sent a flight carrying deportees from the United States to Venezuela on Sunday, the first such flight since the Venezuelan government reached an agreement with the Trump administration on Saturday to resume accepting them. Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, invited journalists to an airport near Caracas, the capital, on Sunday at 8 … Read more
Michael Kugelman Foreign policy analyst Press Information Bureau India’s pitch for a close partnership with China has suggested improvement in bilateral ties In a recent interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke positively about India’s relationship with long-time rival China. He said normalcy had returned to the disputed India-China border and called for stronger ties. These … Read more
Pope Francis’ personal aid for health, Massimiliano Streppetti accompanies him at the end of his appearance at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome on March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday (March 23, 2025) after a five-week hospitalisation for life-threatening double pneumonia, and he … Read more
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, remained defiant in the face of continuing criticism and growing calls to resign more than a week after he cleared the way for a Republican spending bill without negotiating any major concessions. “I’m not stepping down,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” … Read more
Reuters Imamoglu was detained as he was about to register to run against President Erdogan The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, is expected to be selected as the opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2028 presidential nominee in a … Read more