Biden’s official schedule was revised to make time for the White House meeting, which will also be attended by Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running to succeed him in November’s presidential election. A statement announcing Biden’s updated schedule said he and Harris would meet Monday “with the U.S. hostage deal negotiating team following the […]
There was widespread damage in the states of Victoria and Tasmania, while a 63-year-old woman was killed after a tree fell on a cabin at a holiday park on the border between Victoria and New South Wales, emergency services said. “It’s a sad and tragic set of circumstances for the woman’s family and my thoughts […]
Following the attack in the area of the Idna Tarqumiyah Junction, security forces surrounded a house in Hebron and killed a Palestinian suspected of carrying out the shooting, the military said. Hundreds of Israeli troops have been carrying out raids across the West Bank since last Wednesday in one of their largest actions in the […]
Approximately 500,000 demonstrators, according to Israeli media estimates, gathered in cities such as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. They urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intensify efforts to bring home the remaining 101 hostages, of whom a third are believed to have died, based on Israeli officials’ assessments. In Jerusalem, protesters blocked streets and gathered outside […]
The eastern city of Naga was among the hardest hit as Tropical Storm Yagi sliced off its coast overnight Sunday, leaving two people dead including the baby girl who drowned as floodwaters rose, rescuers said. “The floods were above head height in some areas,” Joshua Tuazon of the city’s public safety office told AFP, adding […]
Washington has provided Ukraine with more than $50 billion worth of military aid since 2022 but has limited the use of its weapons to Ukrainian soil and defensive cross-border operations. Zelenskiy said guided aerial bombs killed six people and injured 97 in Kharkiv on Friday, with more attacks on Saturday. These could be averted only […]
“Humanitarian workers are there to help innocent civilians, and Israel must ensure they are protected,” US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller wrote on X. US Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood confirmed that Jerusalem had informed Washington that the shots were fired due to a miscommunication within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Wood further […]
The dismissal was announced just a day after the Ukrainian military reported that an F-16 jet crashed and its pilot died while repelling a major Russian strike on Monday. “I have decided to replace the commander of the Air Forces… I am eternally grateful to all our military pilots,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his […]
People waded through waist-high waters that partly submerged vehicles and roads in parts of the state, visuals from Reuters television showed. At least 28 people have died this week from rain-related incidents in the state, officials said, as meteorologists in India and neighboring Pakistan warned that more heavy downpours and strong winds were expected to […]
Former leader of the Gulf Cartel, Cardenas presided over some of the bloodiest gang violence in Mexico’s turbulent past and has been blamed for transforming drug trafficking by embracing hyper-violent tactics such as decapitations. Cardenas founded the Zetas, an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel made up of former army special forces. He was captured […]
