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Israel-Gaza live updates: Bodies of six hostages recovered from Gaza
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Hamas takes responsibility for Tel Aviv attack
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]
1 killed, 6 missing as superyacht sinks off Sicilian coast, Italian officials say
A Coast Guard aviator observes from the helicopter the Coast Guard ship Visalli during its usual controls to protect the coastal marine environment, pleasure boating, safety and protection of human life at sea and bathing [Read More…]
WHO records 1,940 health care attacks in Ukraine since war with Russia began
Getty Images – STOCK/omersukrugoksu (KYIV, Ukraine.) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it has confirmed 1,940 attacks on health care in Ukraine since the war with Russia began in February 2022. This is [Read More…]
Ukraine destroys third key bridge, threatening to cut off Russian troops, amid incursion, Russian military bloggers say
A Ukrainian armoured vehicles burns after it was hit by a Russian drone near the Russian border on August 18th 2024, in Sumy Region, Ukraine. Ukrainian forces operating in Russia’s Kursk Region have destroyed another [Read More…]
One killed, six missing as superyacht sinks off Sicilian coast, Italian officials say
A Coast Guard aviator observes from the helicopter the Coast Guard ship Visalli during its usual controls to protect the coastal marine environment, pleasure boating, safety and protection of human life at sea and bathing [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Blinken ‘intensely’ focused on cease-fire progress
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Netanyahu says Israel ‘can’t be flexible’ on some issues
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the U.S. military announced it is moving more forces to the Middle East. The United States and its allies continue to plead for [Read More…]
Russian supply bridges destroyed by Ukraine amid Kursk incursion, Kyiv says
Ukraine’s Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk via Reuters LONDON — The Ukrainian military destroyed a bridge inside Russia that had been critically important for carrying Russian supplies, marking the second such bridge destroyed within days, [Read More…]
Inside Israel’s deadly Jenin raid, 40 hours in May that shook the West Bank refugee camp
Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Journalist Amr Manasra says he remembers the moment an iron column saved his life. It was a miracle, he said, when an Israeli sniper’s bullet was met [Read More…]
Alleged Peruvian gang leader arrested by ICE in upstate New York
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A leader of a Peruvian gang who is wanted for 23 murders in Peru was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday, [Read More…]
Inquiry launched at Belfast Zoo after worker allegedly locked in lion enclosure
Liam McBurney/PA Images via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Belfast City Council says it has launched an investigation at Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland after a worker allegedly became locked in a lion enclosure earlier [Read More…]
North Korea to partially reopen doors to tourism for 1st time since COVID-19 pandemic
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea is set to partially reopen its doors to tourism later this year after being closed off since January 2020 at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to [Read More…]
Ukrainian soldiers, engineers add metal netting to US tanks and vehicles to protect against Russian drones
A U.S.-made Abrams tank is seen with a metal additions in this photo supplied by Ukraine’s Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front, which blurred the background to hide the location. — Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front in Ukraine [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel says progress was made in cease-fire negotiations
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the U.S. military announced it is moving more forces to the Middle East. The United States and its allies continue to plead for [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Cease-fire talks resume in Qatar
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the U.S. military announced it is moving more forces to the Middle East. The United States and its allies continue to plead for [Read More…]
Russian court sentences American Ksenia Karelina, former ballerina, to 12 years for treason
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ksenia Karelina, a dual American-Russian citizen, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in a Russian penal colony on treason charges, local media reported. Karelina was arrested in January, according to [Read More…]
Ukraine says it now controls over 80 Russian settlements, including town of Sudzha
Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine now controls over 80 Russian settlements, including the town of Sudzha, since launching its major incursion into the Kursk region last week, Ukrainian officials said [Read More…]
As a father was registering his twins’ birth in Gaza, an airstrike killed the 3-day-olds and their mother at home
Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and GAZA STRIP) — When he left his home on Tuesday morning to get birth certificates for his newborn twins, Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan never imagined he would return with [Read More…]
Gaza death toll surpasses 40,000 in grim milestone, says Hamas-run Health Ministry
People stand by the tombs of a family members after corpses were unearthed from temporary graves at the al-Amal hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip and handed over to their families for [Read More…]