New Year's Eve revelers will toast the end of 2025 on Wednesday, waving goodbye to 12 months packed with Trump tariffs, a Gaza truce and vain hopes for peace in Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/world/2025-trump-truces-turmoil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #2026winterolympics #russiaukrainewar #space #israelhamaswar #australia #massshootings
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran of fresh strikes and said Hamas would have “hell to pay” if it fails to disarm in Gaza, presenting a united front with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/world/trump-netanyahu-iran-hamas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu #us #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #middleeast #gaza #iran
In so many acute conflicts, from the Middle East and Sudan to Ukraine, we know it will take countries working together in partnership to overcome our shared challenges rather than letting them divide and defeat us. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/25/world/building-peace-together/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uk #us #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #russia #sudan #gaza #israelhamaswar #warcrimes #peacekeeping
Christmas celebrations were in full swing again in Bethlehem in the West Bank, as a fragile truce holds in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/25/world/bethlehem-christmas-gaza-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #christmas #middleeast #palestinians #israel #westbank #israelhamaswar
Pakistan’s most powerful military chief in decades faces the toughest test of his newly amassed powers as Washington pushes Islamabad to contribute troops to the Gaza stabilization force. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/asia-pacific/pakistan-asim-munir-trump-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #israel #gaza #asimmunir #donaldtrump #middleeast #israelhamaswar
The International Criminal Court on Monday rejected a challenge from Israel, which had argued that the court’s investigation into alleged crimes committed in the Gaza Strip was invalid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/world/politics/icc-israel-war-crimes-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #icc
Israel's assassination of a senior Hamas commander threatens the Gaza ceasefire, the chief negotiator of the militant group said, calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to demand Israel comply with the truce's terms. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/world/hamas-israel-commander-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
U.S. intelligence officials temporarily suspended sharing some key information with Israel during U.S. President Joe Biden's administration over concerns about its conduct of the war in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/13/world/biden-israel-intel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #israel #israelhamaswar #middleeast #joebiden
Gazans have turned to ripping out iron rods from the rubble to use to prop up tents or sell to scratch out a living in an enclave that will take years to recover from war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/world/gaza-steel-rods-living/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #palestinians #gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the second phase of the U.S.-sponsored ceasefire plan for Gaza to begin soon and said he would meet with President Donald Trump this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/08/world/politics/netanyahu-gaza-truce-second-phase/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #middleeast #benjaminnetanyahu #friedrichmerz
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz flew into Israel for his first visit since taking office, and reaffirmed Berlin's support after traditionally solid ties between the countries were shaken by the Gaza war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/07/world/politics/jerusalem-merz-germany-israel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #germany #friedrichmerz #israel #gaza #middleeast #israelhamaswar
Qatar and Egypt, guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the deployment of an international stabilization force. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/07/world/politics/qatar-egypt-gaza-truce/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #qatar #egypt #gaza #israel #israelhamaswar #us #donaldtrump #middleeast
The head of an armed Palestinian faction that opposes Hamas in Gaza died while mediating a family dispute, in what would be a blow to Israeli efforts to support Gazan clans against the Islamist movement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/05/world/anti-hamas-leader-killed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #hamas #palestinians
Egypt is training hundreds of Palestinian police officers with an eye toward integrating them into a post-war security force in Gaza, according to a Palestinian official. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/world/egypt-palestinians-gaza-police/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #egypt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial facing corruption charges, announced he had submitted a pardon request, saying the long-running cases were tearing the country apart. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/world/politics/israel-netanyahu-pardon-corruption/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #benjaminnetanyahu #corruption
Israel's military on Wednesday launched a new operation against Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank, where a local governor said Israeli forces had raided several towns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/27/world/israel-army-west-bank/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #westbank
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, underlining the struggle to broaden a fragile ceasefire approved over six weeks ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/world/politics/gaza-truce-israeli-hamas-violence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
The Israeli military stepped up airstrikes in south Lebanon, killing at least one person as it pressed a campaign of attacks it says is designed to block a military revival by Iran-backed Hezbollah in the area. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/israeli-military-lebanon-hezbollah/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #lebanon #hezbollah
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after its forces came under fire, a fresh flare-up testing an already-fragile truce. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/israeli-army-gaza-hamas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
An airstrike killed at least 13 and injured an unidentified number of people in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, one of Israel’s deadliest attacks on its neighboring country’s southern region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/world/israeli-strike-refugee-camp-lebanon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #lebanon #refugees #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #hezbollah