Category: 2. World

• No asylum request to be entertained, irrespective of nationality
• All immigration benefits curtailed, past approvals reopened for review under new security directive
• Nationals of 19 ‘high-risk’ countries face suspension of green…

The death toll in Hong Kong’s apartment complex fire has risen to 159 as officials ordered all scaffolding mesh in the city to be removed by Saturday.

The blaze that last week engulfed Wang Fuk Court in the city’s northern Tai Po district has…

Civilian representatives from Lebanon and Israel joined a session of the US-chaired ceasefire monitoring committee in Naqoura, marking the first direct talks between the two countries in more than four decades.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam…

Five Palestinians were killed, including two children, and several wounded when Israeli aircraft struck tents for displaced people west of Khan Younis, according to medics at the Kuwait Field Hospital.

The strikes hit Gaza’s coastal al-Mawasi…

Immigration groups and lawmakers are sharply criticizing Donald Trump’s latest move to halt immigration applications from 19 countries already under US travel restrictions, a decision that comes amid reports that naturalization ceremonies for…

Israel said it launched an airstrike on a Hamas militant in southern Gaza late Wednesday in retaliation for an attack earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers.

The strike was the latest test for a fragile ceasefire that has mostly…

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