Netanyahu: ‘We will remain in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza as long as required’ | Israel attacks Lebanon

Netanyahu: ‘We will remain in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza as long as required’ | Israel attacks Lebanon

Toggle Play Netanyahu: ‘We will remain in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza as long as required’ NewsFeed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israeli forces will maintain a presence in southern Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza for “as long as required” at a graduation for combat officers in southern Israel. Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun…

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Africa: Of 40 Million People Living With HIV Today, 32.1 Million Are Now On Treatment, Living Long & Healthy

Africa: Of 40 Million People Living With HIV Today, 32.1 Million Are Now On Treatment, Living Long & Healthy

United Nations — Remarks by Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), at a High-level Meeting in the General Assembly Hall, 22 June 2026 I am honoured to address this High-Level Meeting. I thank very much the President of the General Assembly for her leadership, our Co-Facilitators, and all the…

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Amazon’s long game in South Africa

Amazon’s long game in South Africa

So, Amazon has finally launched Prime in South Africa. For R59/month, or R399/year, shoppers get free delivery, video and gaming. It’s aggressive pricing. But what stands out more is how long it took to get here. Amazon has been selling to South Africans for two years – and serving them, through other businesses, for far…

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Africa: Ebola’s Long Shadow Over the World Cup

Africa: Ebola’s Long Shadow Over the World Cup

On May 30, as football fans around the world counted down to the start of the FIFA World Cup in North America and airlines prepared for the annual surge in summer travel, the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was sitting in Bunia, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, listening to community…

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Africa: Leo Xiv in Africa – the Pope At the End of His Long African Journey – Carry On the Mission of Jesus’ First Disciples With Joy

Africa: Leo Xiv in Africa – the Pope At the End of His Long African Journey – Carry On the Mission of Jesus’ First Disciples With Joy

Malabo — “As in the early centuries of the Church, Africa today is called to make a decisive contribution to the holiness and the missionary character of the Christian people.” These final words of Pope Leo XIV, addressed to the crowd gathered in Malabo stadium and, ideally, to the entire continent, at the end of…

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Caught between Iran and Saudi Arabia, can Pakistan stay neutral for long? | Israel-Iran conflict News

Caught between Iran and Saudi Arabia, can Pakistan stay neutral for long? | Israel-Iran conflict News

Islamabad, Pakistan – The reverberations of a war in which US-Israel attacks have killed more than a thousand people in Iran, including the country’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and Iranian missiles and drones have fallen on Israel in retaliation, are being felt deeply in Pakistan. Six Gulf countries have also come under Iranian missile and…

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Gaza will be in the shadow of famine as long as we cannot plant our land | Israel-Palestine conflict

Gaza will be in the shadow of famine as long as we cannot plant our land | Israel-Palestine conflict

Last week, a ceasefire was announced after two years of genocide in Gaza. The bombs have stopped falling, but the devastation remains. The majority of homes, schools, hospitals, universities, factories, and commercial buildings have been reduced to rubble. From above, Gaza looks like a grey desert of rubble, its vibrant urban spaces reduced to ghost…

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