WHEN PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN dispatched aircraft-carriers to the Middle East after Hamas’s attack on Israel last month, he had one word for Iran and allies: “Don’t”. Since then there have been rocket, drone and missile attacks on Israel and…
The Russian state should be tried for historical crimes committed by the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa has said before the premiere of his new documentary, The Kiev Trial, at Venice.Speaking at a press conference,…
Leaders and politicians around the world have expressed their condolences as news spread that the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms helped end the Cold War and free Eastern Europe from communism, but also led to the…
GAZA/CAIRO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Israeli forces bombed wide areas of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, as civilians in the besieged territory sought shelter in an ever-shrinking area of the south.The…
30 Mins AgoUN agency says sustainable aid supply needed to avoid Gaza 'catastrophe'The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Sunday that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip is "terrible," with…
(Bloomberg) -- With Israel’s war against Hamas costing the economy around $260 million every day, payouts to ultra-orthodox schools and other causes championed by right-wingers in the ruling coalition have set off a reckoning for Prime…
2 Mins AgoBlinken calls on UN members to commit additional humanitarian assistance to GazaUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine on the sidelines of the 78th…
the rubble of a kindergarten destroyed by a Russian drone in Kyiv. (Photo by Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDispatches from Ukraine. Day 642.
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