184 Palestinian journalists killed since October 7, 2023

184 Palestinian journalists killed since October 7, 2023

Palestinians pray over the bodies of journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qreiqeh, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral outside Gaza City’s Shifa hospital complex, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP An Israeli strike on Al Jazeera staff in a tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in … Read more

Plastic pollution treaty talks end without deal

Plastic pollution treaty talks end without deal

Chair of the International Negotiating Committee, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, speaks during a plenary session of the Second Part of the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5.2), at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Talks aimed at striking a … Read more

Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for high-stakes summit on Russia-Ukraine war

Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for high-stakes summit on Russia-Ukraine war

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday (August 15, 2025) for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war in Ukraine but also the fate of European security. The sit-down offers Mr. Trump a chance to prove to the world that … Read more

India, Pakistan were ready to go nuclear, we solved that: President Trump

India, Pakistan were ready to go nuclear, we solved that: President Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (August 14, 2025) again repeated his claim that he solved the conflict between India and Pakistan and said that the war could have turned nuclear. Also Read | Did Trump slap tariffs for not getting India-Pakistan ceasefire ‘credit’, asks Opposition … Read more

Record violence marks Israel’s push towards West Bank annexation

Record violence marks Israel’s push towards West Bank annexation

A day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel intends to take full control of the Gaza Strip, the country’s security cabinet, on August 8, approved a plan to seize control of Gaza City. Israel then stepped up its bombardment. While Israel continues to pound one of Palestine’s non-contiguous regions — Gaza — and … Read more

Serbia anti-government Protest: Clashes erupt, dozens injured

Serbia anti-government Protest: Clashes erupt, dozens injured

A file photo of the anti-government rally in Belgrade, Serbia. | Photo Credit: AP Clashes erupted at protests in Serbia between opponents and supporters of the government in an escalation of tensions following more than nine months of persistent demonstrations against populist President Aleksandar Vucic. Incidents first started on Tuesday evening (August 12, 2025) in … Read more

Why are Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska, and what’s at stake in the summit?

Why are Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska, and what’s at stake in the summit?

A combo picture of (from left) U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet one-on-one in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday (August 15, 2025) to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. This will … Read more

Israel’s Smotrich approves settlement in bid to ‘bury’ idea of Palestinian state

Israel's Smotrich approves settlement in bid to 'bury' idea of Palestinian state

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a map that shows the E1 settlement project during a press conference near the settlement of Maale Adumim, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Thursday, August 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has approved plans for a settlement that would split East Jerusalem from … Read more

Pakistan will set up Rocket Force Command: Shehbaz

Pakistan will set up Rocket Force Command: Shehbaz

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan will establish a new military force to supervise its missile capabilities, the Prime Minister has said, after its worst conflict in decades with India. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced the formation of the Rocket Force Command while addressing an Independence Day ceremony in Islamabad attended … Read more

China urges Thailand, Cambodia reconciliation in three-way talks

China urges Thailand, Cambodia reconciliation in three-way talks

This handout photo taken and released on August 14, 2025 by the Royal Thai Government shows Thailand’s Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa (R), China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) and Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn (L) taking part in a meeting in Anning in China’s Yunnan province, on the sidelines of the 10th Mekong – Lancang … Read more