ALGIERS: An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed, an Algerian aviation official told Reuters on Thursday. "I can confirm that it has crashed," the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident. The

Defying mounting calls for restraint and a UN vote to investigate its deadly offensive in Gaza, Israel pushed on with its air strikes early Thursday, killing at least 18 more mostly civilians and raising the Palestinian death toll to more than 700. Palestinian emergency services said the latest c

GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday launched a probe into the Gaza offensive, backing calls by the Palestinians to hold Israel to account despite fierce opposition from the Jewish state. The decision came after a marathon seven-hour emergency session of the top UN human rights body,

TAIPEI: A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan on Wednesday, killing 47 people and setting buildings on fire, officials said. The plane, a 70-seat ATR 72, crashed near the runway on the island of Penghu, west of t

GENEVA: Palestinian civilians in densely-populated Gaza have no place to hide from Israel’s military offensive and children are paying the heaviest price, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip, saying no cease-fire was near as US and UN diplomats pursued

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: A rocket fired from Gaza on Tuesday led airlines to halt flights to Israel, as the UN chief urged an end to a conflict that has killed more than 630 Palestinians. As the violence entered its third week, the United States and Egypt discussed cease-fire proposals

GAZA CITY: The death toll in Gaza rose to 572 on Monday. And the Israeli army said another seven soldiers had been killed in fighting in Gaza, raising the overall Israeli death toll to 27, all but two of them soldiers. Gaza emergency services spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said airstrikes and shelling

GAZA CITY: The death toll in Gaza has hit at least 425 since the July 8 start of Israel’s military offensive there, with around 100 killed on Sunday alone, Palestinian health officials said. The vast majority of Sunday’s dead were in the Shejaiya neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli bor

Israeli tanks and bulldozers dug in across a mile-wide strip of Gaza's eastern frontier on Saturday, and Palestinian officials said military strikes had killed more than 300 people, most of them civilians. Israel sent in ground forces on Thursday after 10 days of air and naval barrages failed to

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Fresh Israeli air strikes killed 10 people in Gaza on Saturday, hiking the death toll above 300 as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to bolster truce efforts. The new peace push came as Israel’s campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory entere

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas’ rocket-firing abilities. Flares li

Grabovo, Ukraine: A Malaysian airliner was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides. Ukraine accused "terrorists" - militants fighting t

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a UN request to halt hostilities for five hours on humanitarian grounds on Thursday, while efforts continue to broker a longer-term truce. The sides announced the temporary lull in fighting across the Gaza border after an Israeli s

GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israel resumed its air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after holding its fire in deference to an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks. Attacks in the Gaza Strip killed at least three Palestinians in the early hou

CAIRO: Arab League foreign ministers will meet in Cairo later Monday to discuss Israel’s deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has killed at least 172 Palestinians and wounded 1,230 in its seventh day. There have not been any Israeli fatalities. The Arab League meeting comes amid intense inter

Israeli soldiers from the Nahal Infantry Brigade walk across a field near central Gaza Strip. (Reuters photo) GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israeli naval commandos clashed with Hamas militants in a raid on the coast of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in what appeared to be the first ground assault of a six-day Israe

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 52 people on Saturday, including two severely handicapped women in a care facility, medics said. The toll made Saturday the bloodiest day yet in the five-day conflict, and hiked the overall toll to 157. The deadli

A doll lies amid the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike in Gaza Strip. (AP photo) GAZA CITY: It's the holy month of Ramzan, when people throughout the Muslim world meet with friends and family, buy presents for loved ones and break a day-long fast each evening amid co