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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians. Weeks of gang violence have forced about 18 hospitals to stop working and caused a shortage of medical supplies as Haiti’s biggest seaport and main international airport remain closed, said aid workers with The […]
TAIPAI, TAIWAN — A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook Taiwan early Wednesday, causing massive power outages and the partial collapse of several buildings in eastern Taiwan. At least seven people died and more than 700 were injured. The earthquake’s epicenter was located 25 kilometers off the island’s east coast, with a depth of 15.5 kilometers. Taiwan’s Central […]
JERUSALEM- A three-ship convoy left a port in Cyprus on Saturday with 400 tons of food and other supplies for Gaza as concerns about hunger in the territory soar. The World Central Kitchen charity said the vessels and a barge carried enough to prepare more than 1 million meals from items such as rice, pasta, […]
Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province early on Friday, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza. Israel has ramped up airstrikes in Syria against both the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, since the Iranian-backed Palestinian […]
Gang violence has killed more than 1,500 people in Haiti so far this year, the United Nations said Thursday, as it deplored the continuing stream of weapons pouring into the Caribbean Island nation. The U.N. described the situation in the chaos-wracked country as “cataclysmic.” “It is shocking that despite the horrific situation on the ground, […]
Ukraine’s military said Thursday that Russian forces attacked overnight with 28 drones and five missiles. The Ukrainian air force said the country’s air defenses shot down 26 of the drones, with intercepts taking place over the Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor in Zaporizhzhia, said on Telegram that falling debris […]
WASHINGTON — Russia’s war in Ukraine — portrayed by top U.S. officials as posing a danger to the United States itself — still trails China when it comes to long-term threats to America’s security, according to a top Pentagon official. The warning from Ely Ratner, the Defense Department’s assistant secretary for Indo-Pacific security affairs, comes in […]
MIAMI — A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti landed Sunday in Miami, U.S. State Department officials said. More than 30 U.S. citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. It arrived in the Miami International Airport after the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince earlier this month […]
As Palestinians lined up for aid in Gaza early Friday, Palestinian officials said two Israeli attacks — one in central Gaza, the second in the north — killed dozens of civilians. In the two separate incidents, a total of at least 29 people were killed and 150 more were injured as they waited to receive […]
Israel’s military reported Thursday conducting ground operations and airstrikes in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces said the operations included carrying out raids in Khan Younis that destroyed rocket launchers. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel must make the welfare of Palestinian civilians “job […]
