San Francisco police arrested 70 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on trespassing charges on Monday after they entered the lobby of the building housing the Israeli consulate and refused to leave, police said. The protesters, who were voicing opposition to Israel’s incursion into Gaza, had planned to stay until forcibly removed. Police Respond
President Joe Biden on Monday labeled former President Donald Trump a “convicted felon” who is seeking the office of the presidency for the first time in American history. Kabul 24: This comes after Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime last week, when a New
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, stated that the agenda of the third Doha meeting has been shared with the Islamic Emirate and is currently under review. Kabul 24: Mujahid said the Islamic Emirate will announce its stance on participating in this meeting after completing the review.He dismissed
Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, the leader of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, has denied claims made by Pakistani officials regarding terrorists entering Pakistan from Afghanistan. He stated that Pakistan has provided its airspace to the United States over the past twenty years to attack border areas of Afghanistan. Kabul 24: Maulana Fazlur Rehman
India has witnessed a severe heat wave, resulting in at least 56 deaths and nearly 25,000 suspected cases of heat stroke across the country from March to May, according to government data and local media reports. May Sees Record Temperatures Kabul 24: May has been particularly brutal, with temperatures in
Turkish police detained the mayor of Hakkari province, Mehmet Siddik Akis, a member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Party (DEMs), on Monday over alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The arrest comes just two months after Akis won the municipal election in the region, which borders Iran and
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), led by Masoud Barzani, has announced that it will no longer boycott the Iraqi Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections scheduled for June 10. The decision comes after the party expressed objections to the mechanisms for holding the elections, which were initially met with a boycott. Changes
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has reported that forced displacement has pushed over a million Palestinians away from the Gazan city of Rafah. The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering around 1 million
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has reported that tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan have been severely affected by ongoing flash floods. The most vulnerable children are located in the northern provinces of Baghlan and Badakhshan, as well as the western province of Ghor. Kabul 24:
The Ministry of Public Health, in collaboration with international organizations, launched the second nationwide polio vaccination campaign for 2024 on Monday. The campaign aims to vaccinate more than 11.2 million children under the age of five against the polio virus across the country from June 3 to June 6. Commitment
An Israeli who went missing during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen and was presumed to have been taken hostage has been found dead in the border village where he lived, Israeli media reported on Monday. Kabul 24: After lengthy forensics, Israel’s military confirmed the identification of the
South Korea plans to suspend a military agreement signed with North Korea in 2018 aimed at easing tensions, the presidential office announced on Monday. This decision comes after Seoul warned of a strong response to balloons launched by Pyongyang carrying trash to the South. North Korea’s Trash Balloons Cause Tensions