Middle East

Further Israeli airstrikes kill 52 Palestinians across enclave, medics say Hamas, Islamic Jihad fire rockets from Gaza at Tel Aviv, Israeli towns near Gaza border; two people lightly injured Israel sends tanks into Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, bombs hospital compound in Deir al-Balah, medics and residents say Uprooted Gaza civilians …

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday vowed that Israel would pay a price for the “genocide” in Gaza as he marked the first anniversary of the war in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas. “It should not be forgotten that Israel will …

Saudi Gazette report AL-BAHA — Minister of Commerce Dr. Majed Al-Qasabi said that total revenues from e-commerce are expected to reach SR260 billion by the year 2025 and that e-commerce accounted for 8 percent of total trade in the Kingdom in 2022. “There are more than 50 million e-commerce shipments …

Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third largest city Haifa on Monday as Israeli forces looked poised to expand ground raids into south Lebanon on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread conflict across the Middle East. Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, said it targeted a military base …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Salama Cooperative Insurance Company announced on Monday the appointment of a loss assessor, licensed by the Insurance Authority, to assess the damages, caused by the massive fire that broke out in the Jeddah International Market last week. The insurance company said in a statement on …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The National Platform for Domestic Worker Services in the Kingdom (Musaned) revealed the conditions for obtaining an alternative compensatory visa in the event of domestic workers leaving the Kingdom on a final exit within 90 days from the date of their entry into the Kingdom. …

WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on Sunday creating a potential environmental disaster in waters used for fishing and tourism. The specialist dive and hydrographic vessel lost power and ran …

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA. Their discoveries help explain how complex life emerged on Earth and how the human body is made of a wide variety of different tissues. …

LOS ANGELES — Madonna has paid tribute to her brother Christopher Ciccone, who has died at the age of 63, describing him as “the closest thing to me for so long”. Her brother, who was a tour director for the pop star and danced in her early music videos including …

MEXICO CITY — The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office. Alejandro Arcos was found dead on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero. He had been mayor for six …