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Palestinians flee areas in the eastern part of Gaza City after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israel expanding Gaza offensive, seizes key corridor

The IDF also launched strikes in the Khan Younis area after ordering tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.

13 Apr 2025 - 4:27AMvideocam

US in hurry for nuclear deal, Iran says after high-stakes talks, Trump threats

13 Apr 2025 - 3:46PM

Turkey accuses Israel undermining Syria, stirring up tensions

12 Apr 2025 - 9:16PM

Last chance for diplomacy? US, Iran open decade-defining nuclear talks

With Trump’s threats and a tight two-month deadline, analysts warn that failure to compromise could trigger a dangerous escalatory cycle.

12 Apr 2025 - 1:10PM

Iranian missiles are seen at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran. Photo: West Asian News Agency/Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Judge rules US can deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil

The pro-Palestinian activist was the first person arrested under Trump’s crackdown on students taking part in campus protests over Gaza.

12 Apr 2025 - 3:59PM

‘Hot potato’: Singapore’s criticism of ex-NMP seen as bid to cool tensions

Calvin Cheng on Thursday apologised for Facebook comments in which he offered to send pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza.

13 Apr 2025 - 9:35AMvideocam

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Taliban’s morality police arrest men for skipping mosque or wrong hairstyles

During the holy fasting month of Ramadan, men’s attendance at mandated prayers was closely monitored, leading at times to arbitrary detention.

10 Apr 2025 - 7:44PMvideocam

An Afghan street barber trims the mustauche of a customer in Kabul. Photo: AP

Banking & finance

Trade tensions to benefit Hong Kong as IPO hub, trade gateway, Paul Chan says

Economy is the top priority of the central government and foreign businesses and investments are welcome, Chan said at a Citigroup conference.

10 Apr 2025 - 5:32PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas hides identities of top commanders to evade Israeli strikes

The move aims to shield leaders and maintain power amid calls for the group to relinquish control of Gaza.

10 Apr 2025 - 3:30PMvideocam

US moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean base in message to Iran

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth insists Tehran ‘should not have a nuclear bomb’.

10 Apr 2025 - 1:10PMvideocam

B-2 bombers are equipped to carry the heaviest US bombs and nuclear weapons. Photo: Reuters

Trump says he’d use US military to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons

The US president says Israel would be ‘the leader’ of such a strike if necessary.

10 Apr 2025 - 7:41AM

A woman walks past a mural depicting the US flag with the stars replaced by skulls and the white and red stripes with silhouettes of soldiers firing assault rifles, painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

‘We are ready’: Indonesia offers sanctuary to Palestinians displaced by Gaza war

President Prabowo Subianto, on a trip to the Middle East and Turkey, said Indonesia was ready to take up to 1,000 Palestinians initially.

9 Apr 2025 - 12:32PMvideocam

Hezbollah says ready to discuss disarming if Israeli troops leave Lebanon

The group said it was open to talks with Lebanon’s president if Israel retreated from from five hilltops and halted its strikes.

9 Apr 2025 - 11:15AMvideocam

‘No court run this way’: chaos at Israel hearing over sacking of security chief

Protests disrupted proceedings as an Israeli court heard petitions against the sacking of security chief Ronen Bar amid claims of political motives.

8 Apr 2025 - 6:48PM

Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of the dismissal of Ronen Bar, protest outside the high court during a hearing on the government’s dismissal of the head of the domestic intelligence service. Photo: Reuters

US-Iran tensions

Trump says US, Iran beginning direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme

During meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu at the White House, Trump warned Tehran of ‘great danger’ if talks are not successful.

8 Apr 2025 - 3:41PMvideocam

US President Donald Trump, right, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE

US ends some USAID contracts providing life-saving aid across Middle East

The projects were being cancelled ‘for the convenience of the US government’, according to letters sent to USAID partners.

8 Apr 2025 - 9:04AMvideocam

Hong Kong lawmakers urge HKEX to speed up market reforms, sharpen edge

The volatility of global markets may provide new opportunities for IPOs in Hong Kong, a lawmaker says.

7 Apr 2025 - 7:47PMvideocam

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US air strikes on Yemen push casualty numbers higher

Sanaa and Saada bore the brunt of the strikes, as the latest bombings added to the growing death toll reported by Houthi authorities.

7 Apr 2025 - 1:53PMvideocam

A man walks through the rubble of a collapsed building at the site of a reported US air strike in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa last month. Photo: Getty Images/TNS/AFP

Shorter layovers, new lounges, better jets: Air India’s revival takes flight

India’s flag carrier is investing heavily to lure back passengers, promising faster connections and upgraded cabins.

7 Apr 2025 - 12:56PM

Israel-Gaza war

French President Macron meets Egyptian leader Sisi in Cairo for Gaza talks

On Monday, Macron, Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II will hold a summit as Israel renews its offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

7 Apr 2025 - 9:08AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

West Bank teenager with US citizenship ‘killed by Israeli forces’

The 14-year-old was among ‘terrorists’ who threw rocks at cars, Israel’s military said. A second boy, who was injured, also had a US passport.

7 Apr 2025 - 8:44AMvideocam

Palestinians carry the body of Palestinian-American teenager Omar Muhammad Saadeh Rabee, who was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill dozens as Netanyahu heads to US for war talks

Israel’s PM said he would discuss the Gaza war and a tariff imposed on Israel with Trump.

7 Apr 2025 - 3:54PM

A mourner at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reacts on Monday near the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters

Ex-German president warns of far-right at anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

Christian Wulff called Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp ‘a place of systematic dehumanisation’ as he warned against radicalisation.

7 Apr 2025 - 9:02AM

Israel’s detention of 2 British Labour MPs ‘unacceptable’: UK foreign secretary

David Lammy ‘deeply concerned’ after Chinese-born Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed, who was born in Yemen, denied entry to Israel and deported.

7 Apr 2025 - 4:10AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel provides new details in killing of 15 Gaza aid workers

The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow grave. Another man is still missing.

6 Apr 2025 - 8:10PM

Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. Photo: TNS

Iran calls Trump’s direct talks on nuclear deal ‘meaningless’

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran is ‘ready to try the path of indirect negotiations’.

6 Apr 2025 - 3:44PM

A man repaints one of the famous anti-US murals in Tehran, Iran, on March 29. Photo: EPA-EFE

Opinion | Whose lives matter? Navigating aid and ethics in a divided world

As the West and Global South clash over Gaza and beyond, the question of whose lives are deemed worthy of protection exposes deep fractures.

6 Apr 2025 - 3:00PM

Israel-Gaza war

Video shows slain Gaza aid workers last moments, Red Crescent says

The video was recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza, showing clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing.

5 Apr 2025 - 7:22PM

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