Pakistan and China issued a five-point initiative on Tuesday to restore peace and stability in The Gulf and Middle East region, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities. "China and Pakistan call for immediate cessation of hostilities and utmost efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading," said a statement issued following high-level talks in Beijing.

Solomon Ogbonna Eziko's installation as an Igbo leader in East London has sparked tensions.

Sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan 's fierce conflict between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, international aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report Tuesday. Sudan slid into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the two forces exploded into open fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere. The International Criminal Court is investigating mass killings, gang rapes and other crimes during the conflict as potential w

Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years last year, a jump driven in part by a sprawling effort to turn rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations.

Egypt has moved to calm tourists nerves over scaled-back opening hours of shops and restaurants due to the war in Iran, after the country announced it would enforce an earlier closing time due to the oil crisis. Egypt's large-scale energy-saving measures are not intended to apply to popular travel destinations such as Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Luxor, Aswan and Sharm El Sheikh, the tourism ministry said as the rules took effect at the end of March.

Following the March 2026 Eid al-Fitr celebrations in South Africa, an image purporting to show South African police arresting undocumented Muslims for “praying illegally” in Johannesburg was shared on social media, fanning anti-foreigner sentiment. But the claims are false; the image was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Police also denied the incident.

Civil society joins protests as EU voices express ‘great concern’ about Israel’s law targeting Palestinian prisoners.

The European Commission has strongly criticized a new Israeli law that would make the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorist attacks. "The death penalty bill in Israel is very concerning to us in the EU," a commission spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Middle East accounts for 9% of the world’s production of aluminum.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories Tuesday in outrage after Israel's parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. Palestinians young and old held sit-ins and marches in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the territory where the new law is most sweeping. It orders West Bank military courts — which try only Palestinians — to make the death penalty the default sentence for

Israel's parliament approved a law setting the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.

China bans 'bone ash apartments' where mourners are storing cremated remains instead of cemeteries.

A wolf has bitten a human in Germany for the first time since the species returned to the country, authorities said on Tuesday. The incident on Monday saw a woman injured near an IKEA store in the northern city of Hamburg.

The German government on Tuesday expressed "great concern" over the Israeli parliament's decision to introduce the death penalty for convicted terrorists. "Understandably, Israel has taken a hard line against terrorism since October 7," said government spokesman Stefan Kornelius in Berlin.

Sources told The Jerusalem Post that the decision was a result of France taking a hostile attitude toward Israel over the last two years. Israel has halted selling defense products to France, three senior Israeli sources confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

Italy's fertility rate fell to a new low of 1.14 children per woman in 2025 -- one of the lowest levels in the world, official data released on Tuesday showed.Fertility rates in the EU as a whole fell from 1.57 children per woman in 2010 to 1.34 in 2024.

European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas and several of the bloc's foreign ministers have taken part in events to commemorate Russia's massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha four years ago. "Bucha has come to symbolize the cruelty of Russia’s war," Kallas said on Tuesday.

Police in Bali confirm Lyons, 45, has been handed over to Spain's Guardia Civil and will be flown to Malaga on Wednesday.

A humpback whale that got stranded in shallow coastal waters in the Baltic Sea has swum free again, and experts hope that they won't have to make another rescue attempt. The whale, which is 12-15 meters (39-49 feet) long, swam free late Monday from the spot near the German port of Wismar where it had been stuck since the weekend, regional officials said. The whale was sighted again off Wismar on Tuesday morning and wasn't stuck, the Ocean Museum Germany said.

Nine in 10 German manufacturing companies expect the war in Iran to impact their business, a leading economic institute found on Tuesday. The Munich-based ifo Institute said only 9% of industrial firms reported in a survey that they do not foresee being affected by the conflict.

In a new report, Doctors Without Borders says sexual violence is the ‘defining feature’ of the conflict in Sudan.

New legislation to reduce fuel prices in Poland took effect on Tuesday, as the government in Warsaw tries to reduce the impact on consumers of increased global oil prices due to the Iran conflict. According to the Energy Ministry, a litre of regular petrol may not cost more than 6.

European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas has arrived in Kiev to take part in events to commemorate Russia's massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha four years ago. "Each visit is a powerful reminder of Ukraine’s courage and resilience," Kallas said on Tuesday.

Victims describe how they have been targeted while carrying out everyday activities.

Australia's internet watchdog is investigating five major social media platforms for allegedly not complying with a world-first social media ban for under 16s, the government in Canberra said on Tuesday. Under the new law, which took effect in December, under 16s are no longer allowed to have their own accounts on 10 major social media platforms.

Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska proposes six-day workweeks to bolster Russia's economy.

While short-term affect is already biting, firms fear rising inflation if Iran conflict continues.

The post came after earlier warnings from the UAE Ministry of Defense that the emirate's air defenses were actively engaged in interception activities. Authorities in the UAE's Sharjah region said on Monday that an administrative building belonging to Thuraya Telecommunications was targeted by a drone from Iran, the emirate's media office shared in a post on X/Twitter.

Did Israeli Channel 13 and Al Jazeera confirm that Hezbollah partially or wholly captured Kiryat Shmona? No, that's not true: There's no reliable evidence to support that claim. Neither news organization reported that Hezbollah fighters had taken Israel's northernmost city,...

Israeli voters can seemingly contradictorily support the death penalty for terrorists and still doubt that it would deter terrorism. For years, polling in Israel has shown a broad Jewish-Israeli majority in favor of the death penalty for terrorists.