Women serve as heads of state and government in only 31 countries with less than one in four serving as cabinet ministers, and just 26.5 per cent of them as MPs in a 21st-century world that speaks of gender equality....
US President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union address that the country's military will build a temporary port in Gaza for the delivery of additional humanitarian aid to civilians, senior officials have said....
Israel's military said on Thursday that it launched an internal investigation into the failures that led up to Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023, which caught the country off guard and resulted in the deaths and kidnapping of hundreds of citizens....
Close relatives of 'wanted' Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar have reportedly crossed over to Egypt through the Rafah crossing....
The Israeli military has announced that it killed the chief of the Hamas rocket unit in an operation in the central Gaza Strip. ...
Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips has announced that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary, after making no progress in establishing himself as an alternative to US President Joe Biden....
Three crew members were killed and four others injured in a Houthi missile strike on a Barbados-flagged commercial ship while it was crossing the Gulf of Aden, US officials said....
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has reiterated that the central bank is not ready to start cutting interest rates, noting that he needs to see a little bit more data before taking any action. ...
One Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier was killed while five others were seriously injured during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 247....
Haley’s exit raises questions about her future. Could she join Trump as his running mate? She has said before she is not interested in a position in a Trump administration and that she is not auditioning for a job. But that could change. She is a woman and as a woman of colour, she brings unmatched equity to the ticket....
