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No Gaza cease-fire agreement likely before Ramadan as latest negotiations end
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (LONDON) — A senior Egyptian official has told ABC News that the Hamas delegation has left Cairo, thereby ending cease-fire talks and making it unlikely that there will be a break [Read More…]

Mother of two dies mysteriously while on flight back from Dominican Republic
Stefanie Smith in a photo with her brother Chris Volz. (Courtesy Chris Volz) (NEW YORK) — Family and friends of an Indiana mother said they were shocked and stunned by her sudden death as she [Read More…]

February marked Earth’s ninth consecutive warmest month on record, according to new Copernicus report
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Planet Earth has now broken warmest-month records for nine months in a row, according to a new report by Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service. February 2024 broke global [Read More…]

Houthi strike kills 3 on international cargo carrier as group continues shipping lane attacks: US
Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen killed three civilians aboard a Barbadian and Liberian cargo carrier on Wednesday, marking the group’s first fatal strike on a commercial vessel since it began [Read More…]

Hundreds of truckloads of aid for Gaza stuck as more lives lost to malnutrition, some aid organizations say
Ahmed Zaqout/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Hundreds of truckloads of aid have been stuck waiting to be distributed in Gaza as the humanitarian crisis worsens amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to [Read More…]

Missile explodes near Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with Greek prime minister: Sources
Maksym Polishchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (ODESA, Ua.) — A missile exploded in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday, just hundreds of feet from where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with Greek [Read More…]

US court absolves top tech companies in Congo’s child labor case
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — A U.S. court has absolved five of America’s biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of child labor in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo [Read More…]

Princeton student’s kidnapping sheds light on terror group’s ties to Iraqi government
CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli Middle East expert and Princeton political science student, loved posting on X, formerly Twitter. Her social media posts praised protesters in Syria for their “immense courage,” [Read More…]

Israel-Hamas truce talks stall as war in Gaza grinds on
Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A second straight day of talks aimed at negotiating a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel concluded in Egypt on Tuesday with no breakthrough, a Hamas official told ABC [Read More…]

Cross-border humanitarian aid to Sudan halted
Omer Erdem/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries from Chad into Western Sudan have been halted, according to multiple aid organizations. The halting of cross-border deliveries comes after Sudan’s ministry of foreign [Read More…]

Gangs attempt to seize control of Haiti’s main airport in latest attack
This screen grab taken from AFPTV shows tires on fire near the main prison of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 3, 2024, after a breakout by several thousand inmates. (LUCKENSON JEAN/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) [Read More…]

Princess Kate seen for first time since abdominal surgery and hospitalization
Catherine, princess of Wales arrives at the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum on Nov. 15, 2023 in London. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Kate, the princess of Wales, has been spotted publicly [Read More…]

UN report finds ‘clear’ evidence Israeli hostages experienced sexual violence in Gaza
Israel tanks roll along the border with the Gaza Strip, Feb. 23, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images) Editor’s note: This report contains graphic [Read More…]

Number of children dying of dehydration, malnutrition in Gaza ‘will skyrocket’ without cease-fire: UNICEF
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of children in Gaza dying from dehydration and malnutrition “will skyrocket” if there is not a cease-fire, according to UNICEF spokesman James Elder. Elder called the deaths of [Read More…]

Apple fined nearly $2B by EU for abusing dominance of App Store
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty Images (BRUSSELS) — Apple was fined nearly $2 billion on Monday by the European Union for abusing its market dominance to harm music streaming apps and its customers. The tech giant, [Read More…]

Haiti declares state of emergency, imposes nighttime curfew amid surging violence
KeithBinns/Getty Images (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti is under a state of emergency and nighttime curfew amid a surge of violence, after armed gangs attacked the Caribbean country’s two largest prisons and freed scores of inmates. [Read More…]

Malaysia may reopen MH370 search pending new evidence, government ministry says
A woman writes a message during an event held by relatives of the passengers and supporters to mark the 10th year since the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens on [Read More…]

In a bomb shelter under Kyiv, a US professor taught Ukrainian students about the art of peace
David Dowling (NEW YORK) — Professor David Dowling of Pepperdine University traveled last fall from California to Ukraine to teach some students of Taras Shevchenko National University a course in conflict and dispute resolution. In [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Harris to meet with Israeli war Cabinet member on Monday
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: US drops food aid into Gaza
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest [Read More…]