Portuguese Football Federation announced on Saturday that it has provisionally suspended star attacker Cristiano Ronaldo and opened disciplinary proceedings against the 41-year-old over his decision to walk out on the national team last month.
Yemen said Saturday that forces were advancing against the Houthis around the Bab al-Mandab strait, a week after the country’s Saudi-backed government announced that it was initiating a counter-offensive to take back territory seized by the pro-Iran group during last…
US President Donald Trump on Saturday told reporters that Ukraine should “get a new president”, adding that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky had disobeyed his orders not to strike Russian refineries. This comes after Washington moved to ease sanctions on…
Since the full-scale Russian invasion on February 2022, Ukrainian organisations abroad have taken on an increasingly important role in supporting their country. With women and children making up the majority of recent exiles, women’s groups have a particular part to…
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday that legislative elections would be postponed from November 28 to September 11, 2027, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. In his presidential decree, Abbas set the next presidential elections for that day…
Like hundreds of thousands of Israelis, Amihai will be of voting age for the first time since Hamas carried out its attack on October 7, 2023. When he casts his ballot this month, he has one priority above all —…
Every day, Gazan mother Niyaha al-Masri spends six exhausting hours or more queueing at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family. It has been a year since a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was…
Twenty-four investigations have been opened by French police watchdog IGPN into incidents linked to the ongoing high school protest movement, the interior ministry said. The police response has reignited calls to scrap rubber bullets and launcher-fired riot-control weapons, long denounced by…
The escalating clash between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia now threatens to ignite the already tense rivalry between Israel and Turkey in the Horn of Africa. This week, Turkey threw its military weight behind Saudi Arabia, while Somaliland – a…
Former UN human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a judge at the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo, Norway.