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India needs to be more vocal about violations of international law and use its global weight to push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin has said, while urging New Delhi to examine arms transfers to Israel seriously. In an interview with The Hindu, Ms. Shahin said Palestine had…
United Nations Security Council. | Photo Credit: AP The UN Security Council will vote on Monday (November 17, 2025) on a resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, diplomats said. Last week the Americans officially launched negotiations within the 15-member Security Council on a text that would follow up on a ceasefire in…
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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City on Saturday (October 11, 2025), as Hamas warned the next stage in U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan would be more difficult than the first. Mr. Trump’s Middle East envoy promised Israeli hostage families their loved ones would be returned to them by Monday,…
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Smoke rises following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City as seen from the central Gaza Strip on October 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Israel and Hamas entered a third day of peace talks at an Egyptian resort Wednesday (October 8, 2025), with more senior officials from the United States, Israel and mediating countries…
Israeli and Hamas officials are meeting in an Egyptian resort on Monday (October 6, 2025) in hopes of hammering out a potential ceasefire in Gaza on the eve of the second anniversary. The indirect negotiations will take place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the Israeli delegation, headed by top negotiator Ron…
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, 72, will play a key role in the transitional body that will govern the post-war Gaza Strip, as per U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point “Peace Plan”. Mr. Trump’s plan draws heavily from a proposal that Mr. Blair himself had developed through his think tank, the Tony Blair Institute for…
Israel said Saturday (October 4, 2025) its troops were still operating in Gaza and warned residents not to return, despite calls from the families of Israeli hostages and U.S. President Donald Trump for an immediate halt to the fighting. Mr. Trump issued the appeal to the key U.S. ally after Palestinian militant group Hamas said…
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Israel’s army said Saturday (October 4, 2025) that it would advance preparations for the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza and return all the remaining hostages. The army said it was instructed by Israel’s leaders to “advance readiness” for the implementation of the plan. An official…
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Hamas ready to free hostages but wants further negotiation on Trump’s Gaza plan Hamas said on Friday (October 3, 2025) it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signalled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details. Hamas reiterated…
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President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, 2025, in Quantico. | Photo Credit: AP United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 29, 2025) again claimed that he settled the “very big” conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. “I have settled so…
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