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Biden Visits Israel; Jordan Visit Canceled After Gaza Hospital Blast   Latest developments: Hundreds killed when rocket hits Gaza City’s Ahli Arab Hospital. Israel blames explosion on Palestinian militants; Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman denies the group is responsible. U.S. President Joe Biden arrives for Israel visit, but a meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan postponed. […]

The latest: Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said Hamas is blocking civilian Gazans from evacuating northern areas. U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about the urgent need of humanitarian aid in Gaza, the White House says. U.S. sends second aircraft carrier “to deter hostile actions against Israel,” the Pentagon said. […]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Tel Aviv on Thursday as part of a Middle East tour to show Washington’s solidarity with Israel after the attacks by Palestinian Hamas militants and to work to prevent the conflict from widening. Blinken will also try to help secure the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas […]

The latest: Israel forms national unity government to fight Hamas Israel deploys 300,000 troops near Gaza, with Israeli and militant forces continuing to launch missiles at each other US says 22 Americans killed in Hamas attacks Hamas media say electricity out in Palestinian enclave Israel says 1,200 killed in Hamas raid; Gaza says 1,055 killed […]

NAIROBI, KENYA — A Kenyan court on Monday temporarily suspended a government plan to send police to Haiti on a U.N.-backed mission aiming to restore calm to the gang-infested Caribbean nation. The U.N. Security Council last week approved a Kenyan-led multinational security force for the troubled country, with Nairobi promising 1,000 police officers. But a Nairobi […]

Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told reporters that fighting was still ongoing in seven to eight places in Israel and that it was taking longer than expected to repel the incursion that began Saturday. Another spokesperson, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, said Israel had called up 100,000 reserve troops. “Our job is to make […]

LONDON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $40 million, including to a Belgian biotech company and two leading African vaccine manufacturers, in a bid to boost access to mRNA vaccines for protection against various diseases in Africa. Nivelles-based Quantoom Biosciences will get $20 million to advance work on its mRNA manufacturing platform, while […]

Around 2,200 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Saturday morning, according to the Israeli military, while armed gunmen infiltrated across the border in a ground assault into southern Israel.  Hamas, the Palestinian militant movement that runs Gaza and claimed responsibility for the attack, said it had captured several Israeli soldiers near […]

Ukrainian officials bitterly condemned a Russian attack Thursday that blew apart a café where a wake was being held, killing at least 51 people, including a child. The Associated Press reported that after the attack in the eastern village of Hroza, “body parts were strewn across a nearby children’s playground that was severely damaged by […]

Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday it destroyed 29 drones and a cruise missile that Russia used to attack Ukrainian regions overnight. The Ukrainian military said most of the drones targeted the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine and the Dnipropetrovsk region in the central part of the country. Serhiy Lysak, the regional governor of Dnipropetrovsk, said […]