News – Middle East

HANOI — A busy bridge in northern Vietnam collapsed after being hit by Super Typhoon Yagi, which has killed more than 60 people since making landfall on Saturday. Dashcam footage showed the moment the Phong Chau bridge in Phu Tho province gave way on Monday, plunging several vehicles into the …

BERLIN — Germany is set to expand border checks following a knife attack that left three people dead in the town of Solingen in August. The government has come under pressure to take a harder line on immigration since the stabbing, in which the suspect is a Syrian national who …

HONG KONG — A row has erupted on Chinese social media over the use of air conditioners in classrooms as the country endures an unseasonal heatwave. Parents in some of China’s hottest cities have called on schools to install air conditioners as temperatures surpass 35C. The conversation heated up in …

WASHINGTON — Presidential debates matter in American politics. And the one that takes place on Tuesday night between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris – their only currently scheduled face-off – may matter more than most. Joe Biden’s poor performance in the first presidential debate in late June created a firestorm …

GAZA — At least 40 people have been killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a humanitarian zone created to shelter displaced people in southern Gaza, according to local rescue officials, in what Israel has said was an operation targeting Hamas fighters in the area. More than 60 people were …

Palestinians carry the body of slain Turkish-American International Solidarity Movement activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi during a funeral procession in Nablus Monday. The United States called on Israel on Monday to complete a full inquiry into the killing of an American Turkish woman last week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, saying …

People inspect a damaged area in the aftermath of what Syrian state media reported was an Israeli strike in Masyaf, Hama province, Syria, yesterday. Syria’s health minister said yesterday that overnight Israeli strikes killed 18 people in central Hama province, updating earlier figures, while a war monitor gave a higher …

File photo shows a Palestinian student walk between the rubble, as war disrupts a new school year, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began yesterday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Saudi Stock Exchange main index, Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) declined on Monday for the fourth consecutive session, by 19.40 points (0.16 percent) to 11,962.90 points, with a liquidity of SR5.7 billion ($1.5 billion). Saudi Aramco, the heaviest weight in the index, fell by …

The Palestinian Ministry of Education stated Monday that the Israeli occupation deprived more than 600,000 students in the Gaza Strip from continuing their education for the second year in a row amid the ongoing bloody war on the Strip since October 7. In line with the start of the new …