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President Joe Biden addresses the nation about the response to the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel and Russias ongoing war on Ukraine, Thursday, October 19, 2023, in the Oval Office. House to vote on bill to prevent Biden from withholding weapons to Israel as GOP ramps ...
The House is expected to vote on Thursday on a GOP-led bill to compel the delivery of defensive weapons to Israel as Republicans ramp up pressure on President Joe Biden ... (photo: White House / Oliver Contreras) CNN
Gaza   Israel   Photos   US States  
Palestinians walk through the debris after an Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 15, 2024.) Nakba to Nakba, Palestinian life 76 years post-catastrophe is worse than 75
Palestinians say the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to clear the way for the formation of Israel in 1948 – never ended. Instead, they believe it is stil... (photo: AP / Saher Alghorra) Al Jazeera
Gaza War   Human Rights   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
An employee of a closed petrol station directs a driver in London, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 Oil gains more ground on signs of stronger demand
Tokyo/Singapore — Oil prices extended gains from the previous session on Thursday on signs of stronger demand in the US, where data showed slower inflation than markets... (photo: AP / Frank Augstein) Business Day
Energy   Global Trading   Oil   Photos  
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting, in the Western Wall tunnels Does Netanyahu have a plan beyond his own survival?
The Gaza war has now entered its eighth month and a resolution to the conflict still seems far off. | Israel claims to have killed 13,000 Hamas militants so far. If that ... (photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File) Asiatimes
Benjamin Netanyahu   Gaza   Israel   Photos  
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, next to the morgue in Deir al Balah, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. UN confirms Gaza death toll is mostly women and children
Women and children make up at least 56 percent of the thousands killed in the Gaza war, the UN said Tuesday, as Israel supporters tried to cast doubt over figures from th... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) The New Arab
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
B41 nuclear bomb How close are we to nuclear war?
Rishi Sunak has warned about the future of the world amid threats from Russia (Picture: AP / Shutterstock / Getty) | Rishi Sunak warned that the world is closer to a dang... (photo: Public Domain / Federal government of the United States) Metro UK
Nuclear weapons   Photos   Russia   US States  
Palestinians search debris after an Israeli strike on a school run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (A Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah; battles rage in northern Gaza
CAIRO - Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential areas of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had sought s... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) GDN Online
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Taher M. El-Sonni, Permanent Representative of the State of Libya to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya. Libya war crimes probe to advance next year: ICC prosecutor
The International Criminal Court prosecutor probing war crimes committed in Libya since 2011 announced Monday his plans to complete the investigation phase by the end of ... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) The New Arab
International Criminal Court   Libya   Photos   United Nations  
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. speaks at South Lake High School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Mills files articles of impeachment, citing Biden's pledge to withhold weapons from Israel
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills of Florida has filed an article of impeachment citing President Joe Biden's threat of withholding arms from Israel if it launches an attack on Rafah,... (photo: AP / Paul Sancya) TCPalm
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FILE - Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. Its an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. Israeli tanks push into Gaza’s Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a mil... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana, File) CyprusMail
Gaza War   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Mideast Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
South Texas Border - US Customs and Border Protection provide assistance to unaccompanied migrant alien children Number of internally displaced people hit new record in 2023: Report
The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the globe hit a record 75.9 million in 2023, an NGO monitor has found. | The Internal Displacement Monitoring Cent... (photo: US CBP/Eddie Perez) Al Jazeera
Human Rights   Immigration   Photos   Population  
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink after arriving by train at Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi station May 14, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken in Ukraine to assure US support amid new Russian offensive
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to... (photo: Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP / AFP or licensors) Naharnet
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A Palestinian woman sits in front of her makeshift tent with her grandchildren after been displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip at a camp in Deir al Balah, Monday, May 13, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It's an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. ( Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators participate in a protest ahead of Nakba Day in New York City. AFP | Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsio... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Gulf Today
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Locals take a break as they clean the rubble of burnt-out houses after forest fires reached their neighborhood in Vina del Mar, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. The case for optimism
We are living in an era of anxiety – or as Jonathan Haidt, the US social psychologist calls it in his latest book, a “generation of anxiety”. From the global financ... (photo: AP / Cristobal Basaure) New Statesman
Democracy   Photos   Politics   Population  
General Assembly Adopts Resolution Determining Palestine Qualified for UN Membership Yet another UN resolution for the state of Palestine
The United Nations General Assembly passed the resolution moved by the UAE last Friday to recognise a Palestinian state. However, if a country is to be recognized by the ... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) Madhyamam
Israel   Palestine   Photos   United Nations  
File - Defendant David McBride talks to the media before his court appearance in Canberra, Australia, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. His lawyer Bernard Collaery is charged with conspiring to reveal classified information that expose a diplomatic scandal and McBride is charged with leaking secret documents alleging military misconduct in Afghanistan. Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride jailed for six years
Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months for revealing information about alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan... (photo: AP / Rod McGuirk) Al Jazeera
Afghanistan   Australia   Photos   Whistleblower  
A Palestinian woman cries as she sits next to her girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip while receiving treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024 ‘We give birth only to lose them’: Injured Palestinian mothers grieve for babies killed in Gaza
Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder... (photo: AP / Mohammed Dahman) CNN
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Refuel petrol gas station pump Oil prices up over investor profit-taking, supply uncertainties
Oil prices increased on Monday amid moderate investor profit-taking, supply uncertainties from tensions in the Middle East, and the possibility of the OPEC+ group's exten... (photo: Creative Commons) Anadolu Agency
Energy   Global Trading   Oil   Photos  
Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al Balah, Gaza, Friday, May 10, 2024. WFP warns of new displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
The World Food Program (WFP) warned that Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip will be forced to flee again in search of shelter, food and water.The United Nations (UN) ... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Gulf-Times
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Photos   WFP   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel Israel’s war on Gaza live: Fierce clashes as Israeli troops invade Jabalia
Fierce clashes in Jabalia in north Gaza as Israel sends troops and tanks back in to the area. The ground assault follows a night of intense air raids in the area. At leas... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit) Al Jazeera
Gaza   Israel   Palestinians   Photos