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Drive-by shooting in West Bank An Israeli man was fatally shot at a busy intersection in the West Bank on Sunday, hours after a violent confrontation elsewhere in the Israeli-occupied territory left seven Palestinians and a member of Israel’s paramilitary border police dead. In Sunday’s drive-by shooting in the central West Bank, assailants fired through […]

Doha-based Al Jazeera’s veteran Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh lost the fifth member of his family Sunday after his son and another journalist were killed in an Israeli airstrike Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza, Wael al-Dahdouh (C) hugs his daughter during the funeral of his son Hamza Wael al-Dahdouh, a journalist with the Al Jazeera […]

The agreement accentuates historical ties between Ethiopia and Somaliland – and historical hostility with Somalia. Somalis march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal at Yarisow stadiumin Mogadishu on January 3, 2024 [Feisal Omar/Reuters] On Monday, an agreement signed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Muse Bihi Abdi of the […]

The Foreign Ministry expressed concern about a recent agreement signed by Ethiopia and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. Demonstrators gather in a stadium during a demonstration in support of Somalia’s government following the port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland at Eng Yariisow Stadium in Mogadishu, Jan. 3, 2024. (AFP Photo) […]

Somalia has described an agreement that landlocked Ethiopia made with the self-declared republic of Somaliland over sea access as an act of “aggression”. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addressed MPs following Ethiopia’s agreement with Somaliland Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but is not recognised internationally. It said that Ethiopia agreed to […]

At least 103 people were killed and 173 others injured when two explosions ripped through a crowd commemorating slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani on the anniversary of his killing, state media confirmed. In this undated file photo, former Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani (C) attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo) The blasts, which state […]

A Japan Airlines jet burst into flames on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday after a collision on the ground with a Japan Coast Guard plane. A Japan Airlines plane burning at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening | KYODO A total of 367 passengers and 12 crew members were on board the plane, […]

Israelis and Palestinians end a dark year on Sunday, with no end in sight to the deadliest military offensive on Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ bloodiest attack on Israel. An Israeli soldier operates in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, in this handout picture released on December 29, 2023. […]