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Latest developments: Israeli forces battle Hamas fighters in Gaza City. IDF extended for an extra hour Wednesday its evacuation corridor for Palestinians to leave northern Gaza, as U.N. says 50,000 flee south. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the death toll from Israeli attacks has surpassed 10,500. G7 backs Israel’s right to self-defense, while […]
Latest developments: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Friday in Israel, where he is expected to call on the Israeli government to pause its offensive in Gaza so humanitarian aid can enter the region. Israel is returning thousands of Palestinian workers to Gaza who were trapped in Israel, following the Hamas attack on Israelis. […]
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through surgical sterilization, the transfer of hippos to other countries and possibly euthanasia, the government said Thursday. The hippos, which spread from Escobar’s estate […]
MUMBAI — India’s financial capital, Mumbai, is grappling with surging levels of air pollution, a relatively new phenomenon in a city whose location along the Arabian Sea had long protected it from the dirty air that engulfs much of North India in winter. It is the second Indian mega city whose skies have turned grey and […]
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Israel ramps up air and ground operations on Gaza, striking dozens of underground tunnels, bunkers, and telecommunications equipment. The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas militants. Israel Defense Forces say they targeted strikes on Hamas figure responsible for the militant group’s aerial […]
Iceland’s meteorological office reported Friday the Nordic Island nation’s southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula has been experiencing a “seismic swarm” of small earthquakes over the last three days, with at least 5,800 recorded since it began and around 1,000 since midnight Thursday. In a series of reports on its website, the meteorological office — known as the […]
Latest developments: Israel’s military conducts ground incursion into Gaza for the second day in a row, followed by a barrage of fresh airstrikes targeting Hamas militants. U.S. military launches airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the Pentagon. The Gaza-based Ministry of Health — an […]
MANILA — The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under a 1951 treaty, after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels off a contested shoal in the South China Sea. Philippine diplomats summoned a Chinese Embassy official in Manila on Monday for […]
Ukrainian officials said Monday that Russian forces attacked overnight with drones and a cruise missile that targeted different parts of the country. Ukraine’s air force said it downed all 14 attack drones, including 13 Iranian-made Shahed drones, as well as the cruise missile. Oleh Kiper, the regional governor of Odesa, said debris from one of […]
SYDNEY — Australian researchers say they have produced the most comprehensive view of the history of the universe to date. An Australian National University team says their study offers new ideas about how the universe might have started. The research team says the study’s aim was to understand the origins of all the objects in the […]
