Archives for October, 2025

Israel pressed on with its campaign in Gaza, even with a peace deal appearing close

Netanyahu hopes to bring Gaza hostages home within days as negotiators head to Cairo

Agence France-Presse

Smoke rises following explosions in Gaza City after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war, as seen from central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Reaction after Trump calls for end to bombing in Gaza

Reuters

Displaced Palestinian children shelter on the side of a raod, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war, in the central Gaza Strip, October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Israel strikes Gaza after Trump calls for end to bombardment

Reuters

A screengrab from a live stream video shows crew raise their hands after Israeli navy forces boarded the Gaza-bound vessel Florida, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which flotilla organisers report has been intercepted, October 2, 2025. Global Sumud Flotilla/Handout via REUTERS

How the Gaza aid flotilla used cameras and data to win global attention

Reuters

Palestinians inspect the site of an evacuated house, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj

Factbox-Comparing Hamas response with Trump's Gaza plan

Reuters

The sun sets behind overhead power lines as the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity requested citizens to ration their electricity usage at peak times due to outages caused by the increased pressure on power stations amid soaring temperatures and heightened energy demand, Kuwait City, Kuwait, June 19, 2024.

Kuwait seeks renewable energy boost as 14 GW power expansion plan takes shape

Kuwait, historically lagging in the Gulf’s energy transition, is moving ahead with plans to expand renewable energy amid efforts to banish power crunches.

US President Donald Trump said he believed Hamas was ready for 'lasting peace'

Trump says Hamas ready for peace, tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza

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Protesters want reforms in public healthcare and education

Young Moroccans protest for 7th day in a row

Agence France-Presse

AYLESBURY, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Chequers at the conclusion of a state visit on September 18, 2025 in Aylesbury, England. This is the final day of President Trump’s second UK state visit, with the previous one taking place in 2019 during his first presidential term. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Trump tells Israel to halt Gaza assault 'immediately' after Hamas response to peace plan

In a post to Truth Social on Friday, Trump said that Hamas' response to the ceasefire indicates the group is ready for peace and called on Israel to "immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the hostages out safely and quickly."

By Rosaleen Carroll

In Washington, DC, US, reporting on the Middle East

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Hamas says it agrees to release all Israeli hostages under Trump Gaza plan

Reuters

Elizabeth Wolf, accused of the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian-American Muslim girl, poses for an undated police booking photograph in the Dallas suburb of Euless, Texas, U.S. Euless Police Department/Handout via REUTERS

Texas woman sentenced to five years for attempted drowning of Muslim child

Reuters

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold up flares as they protest to condemn the Israeli forces' interception of some of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in Barcelona, Spain October 2, 2025. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

European protesters block traffic, vandalise shops after Gaza aid flotilla blocked

Reuters

A member of the staff of Cadus organization evacuates a premature baby from Al Helo International Hospital to be transported to a hospital in southern Gaza for further medical care, amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj

Situation for mothers and babies in Gaza has 'never been worse', says UNICEF

Reuters

Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, speaks during a High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., July 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Trump's Gaza plan not in line with Muslim countries' proposal, says Pakistan

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold flags asking for the government to enact to the Occupied Territories Bill, on the day of a breakdown of parliament proceedings to nominate the next Taoiseach (Prime Minister), outside government buildings, in Dublin, Ireland January 22, 2025. REUTERS/Emilija Jefremova/File Photo

Exclusive-Ireland poised to blunt sanctions on Israel under corporate pressure, say sources

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the site of the Manchester synagogue attack, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester, Britain, October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

UK urges pro-Palestinian group to cancel protest after synagogue attack

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