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KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department is encouraging American citizens to leave Haiti following an ongoing spate of gang violence. A series of coordinated gang attacks began against a number of government institutions last week, with prisons, dozens of police stations and the international airport all targeted. The violence has paralyzed the country, […]
Thailand Customs Dept./Facebook (LONDON) — A red panda was among 87 animals seized by Thai customs agents after they were discovered in checked luggage at Thailand’s main international airport. The animals were discovered at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday by Thai customs agents in checked luggage headed to Mumbai, India, Thailand’s Customs Department announced. The […]
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 in the violence before the start of Ramadan on Monday. Story developing… Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
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 was aboard a flight returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic last week. Investigators in Turks and Caicos said […]
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 a string of attacks on key shipping lanes in the region in protest of Israel’s war against Hamas, according to […]
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 international organizations. Between 200 and 300 truckloads were at the Kerem Shalom crossing point Tuesday, from Israel into southern Gaza, […]
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 Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to sources. “It hit in a couple of hundred of meters (about 300 feet) from […]
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 (DRC) on Tuesday The five tech giants — Apple, Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla […]
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,” called out authoritarianism in Russia, and even lauded anti-corruption protesters in her native Israel. And then, on March 21, 2023, […]
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 News. Israel did not send a delegation to Cairo for the latest round of negotiations and has declined to comment […]
