Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ An Iranian supporter outside the Kazan Arena in 2018./ Women in Iran will be allowed to attend men's soccer matches beginning with a World Cup qualifier next month, according to FIFA./ Football's world ...
Soccer's governing body FIFA says an inspection visit to Iran has shown "no noteworthy operational obstacles" to lifting the country's 40-year ban and letting women attend a World Cup qualifying game next month./ After meeting government and soccer officials in Tehran this week, FIFA says it ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Women cheering at a screening of a match at last year's World Cup - one of the very rare occasions female fans were admitted alongside men Women in Iran will be able to attend football matches, starting with a World Cup qualifier next ...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel is obliged to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by the United Nations and its entities to ensure the basic needs of the Palestinian civilians are met. also said Israel had not substantiated its allegations that ...
Gaza health crisis will last 'for generations', says WHO chief/ Gaza is experiencing a health "catastrophe" that will last for "generations to come", the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a ...
Arie Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar's bodies were returned by Hamas on Tuesday night/ Israel's military says the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday have been identified as Arie Zalmanowicz and Master Sgt (res) Tamir Adar. Zalmanowicz , 85, was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir ...
The Israeli military has begun to mark out the withdrawal line with yellow blocks/ Under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the "yellow line" - which Israel withdrew to earlier this month - is the first of three stages of Israeli military withdrawal. It leaves it in control of about 53% of the ...
JD Vance and his wife Usha were greeted by US ambassador Mike Huckabee and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin on arrival in Tel Aviv/ US Vice-President JD Vance has arrived in Israel as part of the Trump administration's efforts to strengthen the Gaza ceasefire agreement. He is expected ...
The masked settler struck Umm Saleh Abu Alia with a stick used as a club/ A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives. The unprovoked attack, which took place on Sunday morning in the ...
Sunday saw the deadliest day of attacks since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October/ One week ago, US President Donald Trump was given a hero's welcome in Israel after securing the Gaza ceasefire and exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. But the days since have shown just how ...
Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv was filled with smoke before the scheduled kick-off/ The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled before kick-off on Sunday, after what police described as "public disorder and violent riots". "Dozens of smoke grenades ...
Smoke billows after an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Sunday/ The Israeli military has said it will resume enforcement of the ceasefire in Gaza after launching air strikes on Sunday in response to what it called Hamas's "blatant violation" of the deal. Strikes began in southern Gaza after the ...
"I rode away on a camel with my grandmother, along a sandy road, and I started to cry." Ayish Younis is describing the worst moment of his life – he still regards it as such, even though it was 77 years ago, and he's lived through many horrors since. It was 1948, the first Arab-Israeli war was ...