News – Middle East

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 …

BRUSSELS — The 7 October Hamas incursion into southern Israel left more than 1,000 people dead and sparked a year of war which has devastated much of the Gaza Strip. There has been some early reaction from European leaders on the first anniversary of the Hamas incursion into Israel, which …

WASHINGTON — Reports of antisemitic incidents in the US have reached a record high since last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, according to a preliminary report from the Anti-Defamation League Center for Extremism (ADL). The group found more than 10,000 incidents from 7 October 2023 to 24 September of this …

KYIV — Ildar Dadin, a well-known Russian opposition activist who was fighting in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv, has been killed in action, according to the group that recruited him. A spokeswoman for that group, the Civic Council, told the BBC that Dadin had died, adding that “he was, …

MIAMI — A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Florida as a hurricane barrels towards the already-ravaged Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center confirmed that Milton — currently off the coast of Mexico — had intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday and could pose “life-threatening …

Election officials work at a polling station, during the presidential election in Tunis, yesterday. Polls closed last night in Tunisia after voting in a presidential election expected to see incumbent Kais Saied secure another five years in office while his main critics — including one contender — are behind bars.Three …

A Palestinian man rests with his son under the rubble of their destroyed house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. In the ruins of his two-storey home, 11-year-old Mohamed gathers chunks of the fallen roof into a broken pail and pounds them into gravel which his father will …

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Sunday an Israeli strike on a mosque-turned-shelter in central Deir al-Balah killed 26 people. “The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation’s targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and Al Aqsa Martyrs mosque reached 26, …

Hamas chief negotiator says Israel undermining talks Both sides have traded blame for failure to agree ceasefire Hayya says Oct. 7 attack put Palestinian cause at top of world agenda A year since the start of the war in Gaza, Israel is still blocking a ceasefire agreement despite Hamas’ flexibility, …

Brigadier General Esmail Qani Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing last month of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard from since strikes on Beirut late last week, two senior Iranian security officials said. One of the …