US airlines halt flights to Israel as fighting intensifies All US airline companies have stopped flights to Israel under instruction from the US Federal Aviation Administration following reports of a rocket attack in a town located near Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. Since fighting has intensified, passengers’ safety is a number one priority for American…
DetailsJoko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, has been elected Indonesia’s next president.
DetailsAustralian suicide bomber kills 5 in Iraq Five people died and 90 were injured when an Australian suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest near a Shi’ite mosque in the heart of Baghdad. The extreme Islamist group ISIS claimed reponsibility and named him only as as Abu Bakr al-Australi. News.com has since reported that Australian intelligence sources say he…
DetailsIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a ground invasion of Gaza by the Israel Defence Force.
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A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 298 passengers, including 28 Australians, was shot down near Ukraine’s Russian border overnight.
DetailsIsrael and Hamas have agreed to a five-hour ceasefire requested by the UN to allow humanitarian aid to be shipped into the Gaza Strip.
Details#153430029 / gettyimages.com US jails British engineer for supporting Jihad Babar Ahmad, a British computer engineer, has been sentenced by a US court to 12-and-a-half years for supporting jihadist groups. Ahmad, 40, was extradited from the UK after an eight-year fight through British courts and the European Court of Human Rights. He pleaded guilty and expressed regret…
DetailsRussia is to reopen its Cuban listening post from the Cold War era.
DetailsIsrael launched fresh air strikes on Gaza hours after agreeing to a ceasefire, retaliating against 76 rockets fired by the Palestinian militia group, Hamas, at Israel.
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