Getting a Cease-Fire in Gaza Has Been Hard. Fulfilling One Will Be Harder. The proposal backed by President Biden is deeply political and aims at stopping the war at least for now. But Israel rejects a permanent cease-fire and Hamas has its own reasons for reluctance. 06/5/2024 - 12:19 pm | View Link
Israel-Gaza live updates: 18 arrested in Jerusalem Day chaos More than seven months after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. 06/5/2024 - 11:27 am | View Link
News Wrap: White House expects Israel will say ‘yes’ to ending war in Gaza if Hamas agrees In our news wrap Sunday, the Biden administration said it’s confident Israel will move forward with the president’s plan to end the war in Gaza if Hamas agrees to it, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ... 06/2/2024 - 10:45 am | View Link
Israeli leader Netanyahu faces growing pressure at home after Biden’s Gaza proposal Israel’s prime minister faces growing pressure after U.S. President Joe Biden described a proposed agreement to end the fighting in Gaza. 06/1/2024 - 3:46 pm | View Link
Biden announces Israeli plan that would end war in Gaza, and urges Hamas to accept WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced what he described as an Israeli plan to end the war with Hamas and urged the terror group to take it up, although he expressed concern that pressure from ... 05/31/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
A person in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been confirmed in humans before, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The virus was detected in a 59-year-old who had been hospitalized in Mexico City. The person died one week after developing a fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea.
After six long weeks of voting in the grueling heat, India’s election delivered stunning results.
With all of the 640 million votes now counted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to preside over a rare, third consecutive term in power—making him only the second Indian prime minister to do so after Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962.
CAIRO — United Nations agencies warned Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue.
The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint report that hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system in the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
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It says the situation remains dire in northern Gaza, which has been surrounded and largely isolated by Israeli troops for months.
U. S. intelligence officials are issuing a stark warning to America’s former “Top Gun” pilots: Don’t help China.
A new threat bulletin issued Wednesday warns that China’s People’s Liberation Army “continues to target” current and former Western fighter pilots to help teach Chinese pilots how to master one of the hardest maneuvers in aviation: taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.
FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing.
Hong Kong, the Chinese enclave that’s still struggling to revive its tourism economy post-pandemic and in the wake of a Beijing-influenced crackdown on civil liberties, has taken a new approach to wooing visitors: curbing its residents’ reputation for rudeness.
Earlier this week, the city government launched a new campaign to promote politeness.