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Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — The World Health Organization’s staff residence in Deir al Balah, Gaza, was attacked three times by the Israel Defense Forces, WHO officials said in a statement. The Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward Al-Mawasi, according to the Tuesday statement. The […]
Photo by Moiz Salhi/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Twenty-five countries have released a joint statement calling for the immediate end of the war in Gaza and accusing Israel of not allowing sufficient aid in, demanding it must do so to comply with international humanitarian law. “We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent […]
Abdul Goni/Drik/Getty Images (LONDON and BELGRADE, Serbia) — At least 20 people were killed and 171 were injured when a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed near a school in the capital Dhaka on Monday, officials said. The aircraft crashed on the grounds of the Milestone School and College, in the city’s northern Uttara neighborhood, […]
(ZIKIM, Israel.) At least 73 Palestinians were killed on Sunday while trying to get access to food, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. Another 150 people were injured, Gaza health officials said. The majority of those killed were gathered near the Zikim border between Gaza and Israel. The Israel Defense Forces said a […]
Antonio Masiello/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s Defense Ministry on Sunday claimed to have shot down at least 26 Ukrainian drones over the Moscow region, as both sides continued their long-range strike campaigns despite Kyiv suggesting a resumption of bilateral ceasefire talks this week. The Defense Ministry in Moscow said in posts to Telegram that 132 […]
(LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday morning that Russia had attacked Ukraine overnight with more than 300 drones and over 30 missiles. The strikes, which occurred Friday night into Saturday morning, affected the regions of Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, Sumy, Kherson, Volyn, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Zhytomyr. At least one person was killed and […]
(VENEZUELA) — The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X. The deal included the release of 10 Americans […]
(LONDON) — An overnight fire at a shopping mall in Iraq has killed more than 60 people, according to the country’s interior ministry. The massive fire broke out early Thursday in the new, five-story shopping center in Kut, the capital of the Wasit province in eastern Iraq. Most of the 61 victims died from smoke […]
Raju Shinde/Hindustan Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dialogue heard on a cockpit voice recording indicates that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in June, killing 260 people, may have turned off the fuel just after takeoff, prompting the first officer to panic, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited […]
Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Holy Family Church, a Catholic church in Gaza, was damaged on Thursday and its priest was injured along with several others, the parish said. “Currently there are no fatalities confirmed,” the parish said in a press release. “The church sustained damage.” Father Gabriel Romanelli was […]