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Trump asks Putin to join Gaza ‘board of peace’ even as Ukraine war rages
19 January 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join United States President Donald Trump’s “board of peace”,...
Trump tells Norway PM not bound to ‘think purely of peace’ after Nobel snub
19 January 2026United States President Donald Trump’s simmering resentment in the wake of failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize has su...
Israel launches ‘large-scale’ military raid in occupied West Bank’s Hebron
19 January 2026News|Israel-Palestine conflict The Israeli military has launched a “large-scale” operation in Hebron in the southern...
Several killed in Kabul blast, Afghan Taliban Interior Ministry says
19 January 2026Several people have been killed in a blast in Afghanistan’s Kabul, the Taliban Interior Ministry said. ...
India is profiling Kashmir mosques, raising new surveillance fears
19 January 2026Mohammad Nawaz Khan regrets the day his father, Sanaullah Khan, a retired government employee, agreed to head the managi...
Power lines and power struggles: Unpacking Syria’s push towards unification
19 January 2026Deir Az Zor, Syria – On the broad, windswept plains through which the Euphrates River snakes, the land remembers every...
Why is Germany trying to build ‘Europe’s strongest conventional army’?
19 January 2026At the beginning of the year, German men aged 18 began to receive a compulsory questionnaire registering their fitness f...
Japan’s PM Takaichi will dissolve parliament, call snap election
19 January 2026DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, News|Elections Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she will diss...
New storm to hit Gaza, piling on suffering for thousands of displaced
19 January 2026A new storm is forecast to hit Gaza, adding further to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in ...
Syria’s President al-Sharaa to meet SDF leader Abdi after ceasefire deal
19 January 2026Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is set to meet Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to cons...