World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
A joint statement by 17 foreign ministers says Thursday’s strike, which killed at least six people, including a surgeon and a 13-year-old boy, violated international humanitarian law.
Israel’s immigration authority has widened its voluntary departure grant to nationals of every African country until December 31, after assisted departures fell by about a fifth last year.
The agreements, signed during Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk’s visit to Kabul, cover Afghan imports of medicines, wheat, flour, and cooking oil, and fruit exports to Russia.
Smuggled and conflict gold from Africa, Russia, and Yemen made up 42 per cent of the UAE’s gold imports in 2024, a year after new sourcing rules took effect, Swissaid says.
The Home Ministry has offered a meeting of the High Powered Committee on Ladakh between December 5 and 10, sources say, but the Leh Apex Body says its protest against winter hill council elections will go ahead.
Lula and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed agreements on agriculture and competition law as Brazil seeks closer ties with Southeast Asia ahead of the ASEAN summits.
The US ambassador to the UN is due to meet Lebanon’s leaders early next week, weeks before the peacekeeping force’s mandate ends, as Washington weighs a civilian monitoring mission.
Eleven countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, compete in the first Asian edition of the song contest, while India, China, Japan, and Indonesia stay out.
A committee ordered by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi went into Jurf al-Sakhar under heavy military escort on Friday and agreed with faction leaders there on how its inquiry would proceed.
Two-thirds of those displaced come from Taiz, the International Organization for Migration says, as government forces say they repelled a Houthi attack in neighbouring Lahj.
