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GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on Gaza City on Saturday killed at least four people and left “more than 30” feared buried under the rubble of a house. “Our crews were able to recover four martyrs and five wounded following the attack,” which hit a family home in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood at dawn, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which more than a month ago had resumed its offensive against Hamas across the Gaza Strip. Hamas team heads to Cairo for Gaza talks as…

WASHINGTON: Developing countries should strike swift trade deals with the United States at the “earliest possible” opportunity, the president of the World Bank told AFP Friday, after a busy week with global financial leaders in Washington. Ajay Banga was interviewed by AFP at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Spring Meetings, which have been held this year under a cloud of uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s stop-start tariff rollout. The Bank has been advising developing countries to get a deal done quickly with the United States, and to then focus attention on cutting trade barriers and boosting regional flows…

MUSCAT: Top Iranian and US negotiators will meet again on Saturday to hammer out a new deal curbing Tehran’s advancing nuclear programme, while US President Donald Trump signalled confidence in clinching a new pact that would block Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will negotiate indirectly with Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat through Omani mediators, a week after a second round in Rome that both sides described as constructive. Talks are set to start at expert-level, which will begin drawing up a framework for a potential nuclear deal, ahead of an indirect…

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: India and Pakistan will figure out relations between themselves, US President Donald Trump said on Friday as tensions soared between the two neighboring countries after an attack in Occupied Kashmir region that was the worst in nearly two decades. Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, cited historical conflict in the disputed border region and said he knew both countries’ leaders, but did not answer when asked whether he would contact them. “They’ll get it figured out one way or the other,” he said as he traveled aboard his plane. “There’s great tension between Pakistan…

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he was confident Saudi Arabia will normalize ties with Israel, according to an interview published Friday by Time Magazine. “Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham accords,” Trump said, referencing the historic agreement struck at the end of his first term in 2020, which saw Muslim-majority United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalize relations with Israel. “That will happen,” he added. Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia next month on a Middle East tour that was expected to be his first overseas trip since retaking the White House, though he will now…

NEW DELHI: Top Indian airlines Air India and IndiGo are bracing for higher fuel costs and longer journey times as they reroute international flights after Pakistan shut its airspace to them amid escalating tensions over an attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s (IIOJK). India has blamed that there were Pakistani elements in Tuesday’s attack in which gunmen shot and killed 26 men in a meadow in the Pahalgam area of IIOJK. Pakistan has denied any involvement. The worst impacted airport will be New Delhi, one of the world’s busiest, from where flights cross Pakistani airspace to fly to…

DUBAI: US President Donald Trump has said he is open to meeting Iran’s supreme leader or president as the two countries began talks on Iran’s nuclear programme. Following a meeting last week to outline a framework for a potential nuclear deal, which a U.S. official described as yielding “very good progress”, Trump told Time magazine, in an April 22 interview published on Friday: “I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran.” Asked whether he was open to meeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or President Masoud Pezeshkian, Trump replied: “Sure.” Trump, who in 2018 pulled the U.S. out of…

CAIRO: An Israeli airstrike hit a police station in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, local health authorities said, and Israel’s military said it had struck a command centre of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad groups. Medics said two Israeli missiles hit the police station, located near a market, which led to the wounding of dozens of people in addition to the 10 deaths. The identities of those killed were not immediately clear. The Israeli military said in a statement apparently referring to the same incident, that it attacked a command and control…

Two people were killed and eight more were wounded in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, the regional governor said on Friday. “The aggressor again conducted a mass attack on the region with drones,” Serhiy Lysak, governor for the central Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram, adding that 11 drones where destroyed over the region. Lysak said that several fires had broken out in the city, posting a photo of a fire raging on some levels of a multi-storey building. Trump tells Putin to ‘STOP’ after Russian attack kills 12 in Kyiv He said that six of the…

DUBAI: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, said on Thursday he was ready to travel to France, Germany and Britain for talks, as Tehran looked to build on the momentum of nuclear negotiations with the United States. The three European powers, known as the E3, said in December they were ready to trigger a so-called “snap back” of all international sanctions on Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Tehran has since been pressing on with talks on its nuclear programme with the administration of US President Donald Trump which, analysts and diplomats say, has not been coordinating its…