News – Middle East

GAZA — An Israeli airstrike on a multi-story building in northern Gaza killed at least 27 people, relief officials said, as the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in the area, where it is mounting a major offensive. The home of the Mbahouh family in Jabalya was struck on Thursday …

AMSTERDAM — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has deployed two planes to Amsterdam to rescue Israeli citizens after what he and Dutch officials described as “antisemitic” attacks broke out following a football game. Dutch police said that five people were hospitalized and 62 were arrested after rioters attacked Israeli football …

The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in the Egyptian city of Alexandria will host the 73rd session of the Executive Office of the Council of Arab Transport Ministers, and the 37th session of the Council, next Tuesday and Wednesday.The academy said, in a statement, that the Executive …

MOSCOW — One of Russia’s youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence. Arseny Turbin was only 15 when he was arrested in the summer of 2023. Authorities accused him of joining the Freedom of Russia Legion — a paramilitary unit composed of Russian volunteers …

MEXICO CITY — The remains of 11 people, including two children, have been found inside a vehicle in a southern Mexican city besieged by violence, officials say. The grim discovery was made in the city of Chilpancingo, whose mayor was beheaded last month just days after taking the job, in …

BUENOS AIRES — Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne, Argentinian authorities have said. The singer died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. One person who accompanied the artist has been charged …

GABORONE — Botswana’s new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalized by granting them temporary work and residence permits. “They do jobs that would otherwise not get done,” Duma Boko told the BBC Africa Daily podcast before his historic inauguration on Friday. Botswana hosts …

COLUMBIA — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose as of Thursday evening after escaping from the Alpha Genesis …

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, calling him a “courageous man”. Speaking at an event in the Russian city of Sochi, the Russian president said that Trump was “hounded from all sides” during his first term in the White House. Putin also said that …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Council of Economic and Development Affairs (CEDA) reviewed the major developments in the leading global economies and the challenges they face, as well as their impact on the national economy. The Council, which met on Thursday via a video conference, examined this while taking …