The world’s largest captive crocodile has died in Australia. He was thought to be more than 110 years old. Cassius, the 5.48m (18ft) reptile, also weighed over a ton. Image: Pic: Reuters He had lived in a wildlife sanctuary on Green Island near the Queensland tourist town of Cairns in Australia for more than 37 […]

The World Food Programme (WFP) cannot serve as a replacement for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, the head of the WFP Berlin office told German media. “We cannot replace the important functions of the UNRWA in Gaza, such as the administration […]

Israeli authorities have detained several people on suspicion of leaking secret information from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, Israeli media reported on Friday. The reports were made after an investigating judge partially lifted a news embargo on the case. The judge said the leak could jeopardize Israel’s military objectiv

The heads of 15 United Nations aid organizations and private groups called for an immediate end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip in a joint statement on Friday, warning that the entire population of northern Gaza is at risk of death. They said the situation in the north of the coastal strip, where Israel’s […]

Iran will respond to the latest Israeli attacks, according to a close adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “The Israeli attacks will not go unanswered,” Kamal Kharrazi, Khamenei’s foreign policy adviser, told Arabic news channel Al Mayadeen, according to Iran’s IRNA state news agency. The range of Iranian missil