Israel’s ground-based high-power laser defence system Iron Beam will be deployed by the end this year, reports claimed at a time the country’s war with Hamas shows no signs of abatement.

A class 11 student was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by two men who she met on social media, police said on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have solidified their alliance with a strategic mutual defense agreement, treating an attack on one as an attack on both. This pact, signed amidst regional tensions following an Israeli airstrike in Doha, signals a shift in Saudi Arabia’s reliance on US security guarantees.