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(NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. Here’s how […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LONDON) — A 12-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a 37-year-old woman to death, police said. In the early hours of Thursday morning in Melbourne, Australia, in an inner-city suburb called Footscray, Victoria Police said a “37-year-old woman was located deceased shortly before 2 a.m.” and […]

(NEW YORK) — Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was standing near the Lebanon-Israeli border on Oct. 13, a Friday afternoon six days into the current conflict in Israel, doing what he did best: cover war zones from the Middle East to Ukraine. On this day, he was providing a live signal for a Reuters crew amid […]

(NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. Here’s how […]

Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images (HONG KONG) — The highly-anticipated meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been overshadowed by Biden’s comments calling Xi a “dictator” after the two leaders met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in San Francisco on Wednesday. “Well, look, he is,” Biden said. “He’s a […]

(WASHINGTON) — The leader of a Haitian gang that allegedly kidnapped 16 U.S. citizens and killed one in another incident has been put on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the agency announced Wednesday. Vitel’Homme Innocent was indicted for allegedly leading a gang that helped in the 2021 armed hostage-taking of 16 Christian missionaries […]

Emin Yogurtcuoglu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (REYKJAVIK, Iceland) — There remains a “significant likelihood” of a volcanic eruption in the coming days in southwestern Iceland, the country’s meteorological office said, as hundreds of earthquakes continue to shake the region. About 800 earthquakes have been measured so far on Wednesday, with the main seismic activity in the […]

James Foehl/U.S. Navy (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Thomas Hudner shot down a drone headed toward the ship on Wednesday that had been launched from Yemen, according to two U.S. officials. The U.S. destroyer was operating in the southern Red Sea when the drone was detected as heading toward the ship, according to the […]

(HONG KONG) — The view from China on Wednesday’s meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden is somewhat upbeat, despite signs that the bar for success is low and the meeting is broadly seen as only another chance to install “guard rails” to prevent relations from sliding even further. Some observers hope that […]

(NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. Here’s how […]