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A man holds the body of a small child as he and others mourn while collecting the bodies of friends and relatives killed in an airstrike on January 13, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images As war rages in Gaza, civilians have repeatedly been told by Israel to go to the city of Deir al-Balah, in the center of the enclave, for safety. The city lies below the Wadi Gaza, the line south of which Israel warned people to move starting in mid-October. And after a cease-fire in […]

Displaced people line up to receive food cooked in large pots and distributed for free during the war near the tents in which they live on January 20, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Ahmad Hasaballah / Stringer/Getty Images) (GAZA) — More than half a million people in Gaza are currently facing “catastrophic hunger” amid the ongoing […]

U.S. Coast Guard (NEW YORK) — The United States Coast Guard rescued 33 people from a sinking vessel in deep water when their boat began taking on water and sinking. The incident occurred on Monday when Coast Guard District Seven watchstanders received notification from the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dependable after they encountered a […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — A South Korean ruling party lawmaker, Bae Hyun-jin, has been rushed to the hospital after an attack in Seoul’s posh Gangnam district Thursday afternoon. Bae, a member of the People Power Party and a former TV journalist, was hit with a palm-sized rock on the back of her head, […]

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Jan. 24, 2024. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — North Korea launched a test flight for a new type of missile, state media outlets said Thursday. The test […]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (IRAQ) — The U.S. on Tuesday staged airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq in retaliation for ballistic missiles fired Sunday against Al-Assad airbase that left four U.S. personnel with traumatic brain injuries, two U.S. officials said. “Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities […]

The Iranians call Hamas a “Palestinian liberation group” and say Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are a response to the war in Gaza. (ABC News) (IRAN) — The chances that flashpoints in the Middle East will ignite a conflict that engulfs the entire region have increased, Iran’s top diplomat told ABC News Chief Global […]

RapidEye/Getty Images (LONDON) — South Africa has announced it is set to challenge a New York auction of dozens artifacts and personal items belonging to former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. The New York auction — set for Feb. 22 — comes following a deal between Guernsey’s Auction House in New York […]

belterz/Getty Images (LONDON and KYIV) — A Russian military aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down in western Russia’s Belgorod region on Wednesday, Russian officials said. The “captured” Ukrainian soldiers were being transported to the Belgorod region, located along Russia’s border with Ukraine, as part of an “exchange,” according to a statement […]