What to know about the U.N. vote on whether to admit Palestinians as full members In the six months since Oct. 7, the day that Hamas led an assault on Israel that left about 1,200 people dead, Israel's military campaign on Gaza has killed ... edge," U.N. Secretary-General ... 04/18/2024 - 3:03 am | View Link
“The Middle East Is on the Brink”: U.N. Calls for Maximum Restraint After Iran Directly Attacks Israel for First Time U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for maximum restraint after Iran launched 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s recent bombing of the Iranian ... 04/14/2024 - 9:06 pm | View Link
U.N. Security Council passes resolution demanding immediate Hamas-Israel war cease-fire, release of hostages Immediately after the vote, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on ... More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war begain, according to the Hamas-run Health ... 03/25/2024 - 5:16 am | View Link
U.N. Security Council Calls for Immediate Cease-Fire in Gaza as U.S. Abstains António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, who is in the Middle East ... Israel launched the war after a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and ... 03/24/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
U.N. Should Praise Israel for Ordering Gaza Evacuation, Ambassador Says That prompted criticism from U.N. Secretary General António Guterres ... run health ministry of Gaza says 1,900 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes that followed the terrorist attack. 10/13/2023 - 8:20 am | View Link
TAIPEI — A cluster of earthquakes struck Taiwan early on Tuesday, the strongest measuring 6.1 magnitude, according to the U. S. Geological Survey. There was no immediate information of any damage or casualties.
The temblors struck after a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island earlier this month, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under fire for invoking anti-Muslim tropes in a speech on Sunday as he campaigns in the nation’s ongoing general election.
Speaking to a large crowd at a rally in the western state of Rajasthan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader made controversial remarks describing Muslims as “infiltrators.” Modi said that if the main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, is voted into power at the end of the weeks’ long election, they would unfairly distribute wealth.
As the dust settles in the wake of Israel’s much-anticipated attack on Iran on Friday, the two countries seem to have pulled back from the brink of full-scale war. This strike on an Iranian military base near Isfahan—a response to Iran’s unprecedented April 13 missile and drone attack on Israel—caused minimal damage and was met with muted reactions from Iranian officials.
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The limited scale of Israel’s retaliation reflects several considerations, including a genuine desire to prevent a regional war, U.
Nearly 60,000 residents in China’s Guangdong province have been evacuated from their homes after extreme weather caused floods to sweep through a number of cities in the low-lying Pearl River Delta.
On Monday, rescuers used boats to reach trapped residents, including the elderly, in China’s most populous province, a manufacturing hub home to 127 million people.
BERLIN — Four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary of his birth, and one gave a Hitler salute as they posed for photos, police said Monday.
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Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn.
TEL AVIV, Israel — The head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate resigned on Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the military said, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the deadliest assault in Israel’s history.
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Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva’s resignation sets the stage for what’s expected to be more fallout from Israel’s top security brass over Hamas’ attack, when militants blasted through Israel’s border defenses, rampaged through Israeli communities unchallenged for hours and killed 1,200 people, most civilians, while taking roughly 250 hostages into Gaza.