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Tetra Images/Getty Images (LONDON) — Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including the prime minister, are on Tuesday set to take part in the European nation’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years. Known as the “Kvennafri,” or “Women’s Day off,” the scheduled walkout is in protest of the ongoing systematic gender pay gap […]
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more were injured after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. […]
ABC News (RAMALLAH, West Bank) — Mariam doesn’t know when she’ll go home. She lives in Gaza, but says she was being treated for cancer in an Israeli hospital when Hamas launched their surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed at least 1,400 Israelis and injured more than 4,600 others. She left the hospital […]
200mm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With all eyes on the Israel-Hamas war, and Israeli Defense Forces airstrikes happening daily in Gaza, world leaders and others have been anxiously awaiting what some experts say is an inevitable ground operation into Gaza. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack, Israeli military leaders have been mustering more than […]
Courtesty of Abood Okal (NEW YORK) — While extensive, international negotiations have now led to the release of four hostages captured by Hamas, scores of foreign nationals in Gaza, including as many as 600 Americans, are still being blocked by the U.S.-designated terrorist group from crossing into Egypt, according to Biden administration officials. “To date, […]
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more were injured after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out […]
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more were injured after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out […]
Chicago-area residents Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan, after being freed from Gaza and arriving in Israel, Oct. 20, 2023. — Israeli PM Office (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Ayelet and Or Sella both pause for a few seconds as they recall the moment they were finally able to embrace their cousins Judith […]
Patrick J. Endres/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Melting in West Antarctica, a region which includes the “Doomsday Glacier” that threatens the globe with severe sea level rise, could be inevitable in the future due to warming oceans, scientists say. Loss of ice in West Antarctica has been prevalent this year. In February, Antarctica sea ice […]