By Huseyin Hayatsever
ANKARA, July 21 (Reuters) - Turkey's opposition leader, Ozgur Ozel, said he would form a new party to challenge Tayyip Erdogan, a political splintering that could boost the president's prospects of extending his 23-year rule at the next elections.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
CAIRO/GAZA, July 21 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday killed a father, his wife and their four children in Gaza City, while setting their home ablaze, health officials said, in the latest deadly attack since a U.S.-backed ceasefire was agreed more than nine months ago.
Medics said the Israeli strike on the family house in the Sabra neighbourhood killed the man, Firas Al-Masri, his wife, Salsabeel, and their three daughters and son.
By Huseyin Hayatsever
ANKARA, July 21 (Reuters) - Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel said on Tuesday he would resign his post and form a new party, a political splintering that compounds the challenges facing President Tayyip Erdogan's opponents as they face an unprecedented legal crackdown.
The new party is expected to spark an exodus of voters and parliamentarians from the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), which modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk established more than a century ago.
DUBAI, July 21 (Reuters) - The level of "interaction" with Iran's Supreme Leader is increasing day by day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a video clip published on state media on Tuesday.
His remarks follow months of speculation about the health of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since the airstrike that killed his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, at the start of the Iran war.
By Canan Sevgili and Mirac Dereli
July 21 (Reuters) - Ozgur Ozel, ousted as leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said on Tuesday he was formally resigning from his party to launch a new one, the latest twist in an unprecedented crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's opponents.
Ozel said he had been forced to leave the party founded by modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after a court annulled the CHP congress that brought him to power, deepening the country's political crisis.
Here are some details on the crackdown:
By Giselda Vagnoni and Oriana Boselli
ROME, July 21 (Reuters) - Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, with improvements recorded across every continent, although mounting risks from climate shocks and trade disruption could threaten further progress, a United Nations report said.
Around 645 million people, or 7.8% of the world's population, experienced hunger last year, down from 8.1% in 2024 and 8.6% in 2022, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, jointly prepared by five U.N. agencies.
By Nayera Abdallah, Eman Abouhassira and Timour Azhari
DUBAI/RIYADH, July 20 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they would impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a potential new front against the United States in its war with Iran and raising the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.
