A mosque in Hultsfred, a town in southern Sweden, was completely destroyed by fire in the early hours of Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Authorities are treating the incident as suspected arson, though the exact cause remains under investigation.
GAZA CITY — Nearly 900,000 Palestinians remain trapped inside Gaza City, hemmed in by Israeli tanks and bombardment, as the enclave’s last functioning hospitals shut down under relentless fire. Health officials and aid groups warn the besieged population faces “certain death” without urgent intervention, as Israel intensifies its campaign that rights groups and UN investigators say amounts to genocide.
SANLIURFA, Türkiye – Gobeklitepe, the ancient sanctuary in southeastern Türkiye and a UNESCO World Heritage site, will be showcased in Germany with a special selection of 96 pieces in 2026.
On 21 September 2025, three major Western powers, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, formally recognised the State of Palestine. The moves came in coordination, ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, and were joined almost immediately by Portugal. France and several other European nations are expected to follow.
At dawn on Sunday, September 21, 2025, Israeli forces conducted a sweeping arrest campaign across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians. Among those arrested was Haneen Zoabi, a former Arab Member of Knesset (MK) from the Balad party, on allegations of “incitement to terrorism” related to statements she made abroad.
Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a sweeping mutual defence pact, cementing a decades-old security partnership at a moment of mounting volatility in the Middle East.
Sanaa/Tel Aviv — In a volatile war of words and missiles stretching from Gaza to the Red Sea, Israel and Yemen’s Ansarallah movement are testing each other’s limits. At the centre of the latest flare-up: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz’s threat to assassinate Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and “raise the Israeli flag” over Sanaa. The response from Ansarallah was as scornful as it was defiant.
As the joint Russian‐Belarusian military exercise known as Zapad-2025 came to a close on September 16, NATO’s eastern members remain on high alert. The war games, the first of their kind since Russia’s full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have become a fresh focal point for Western concerns about Russian military posture, escalation risks, and alliance readiness.
On September 12, 2025, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly adopted the “New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution.”
After decades of decline, the Sun is showing clear signs of increasing activity. A new NASA study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in September 2025, reports that several solar indicators, such as solar wind strength, sunspot counts, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and magnetic field measures, have been climbing steadily since about 2008.
More than 20 leading arms trade experts have issued a powerful statement in support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, whose latest report exposes what she calls the “economy of genocide” in Gaza.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stood before military commanders this week and declared his country “prepared for armed struggle” against the United States, vowing to mobilise millions of troops and militias to repel what he called a campaign of intimidation and plunder.
INDIA-ISRAEL – When Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrived in New Delhi on 8 September 2025 and India signed a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) with Israel, the headlines celebrated a “historic milestone”, “stronger investor protections”, and expansion into fintech, defence, regulation, and trade.
Israeli airstrikes on Sunday, September 14, 2025, resulted in the deaths of at least 62 Palestinians and left dozens more injured across Gaza City, northern Rafah, and Deir al-Balah. The attacks targeted residential buildings, shelters for displaced civilians, and humanitarian aid distribution points, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian crisis in the region.
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)—an international coalition of vessels carrying activists, humanitarian supplies, and prominent figures from over 40 countries-has begun its journey toward Gaza in an effort to challenge Israel’s naval blockade and deliver aid to a territory under severe humanitarian stress.
A mosque in Hultsfred, a town in southern Sweden, was completely destroyed by fire in the early hours of Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Authorities are treating the incident as suspected arson, though the exact cause remains under investigation.
