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WARNING: Distressing images Israeli attacks have raged across the Gaza Strip as Palestinian health officials say the death toll from Israeli strikes since war broke out in October has passed 25,000, most of them women and children. Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday said 178 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24 hours, one of … Read more
Washington: US President Joe Biden said on Friday it was still possible Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could agree to some form of Palestinian state, after the two leaders spoke for the first time in nearly a month amid tensions over the Gaza war. Their call came a day after Netanyahu said he opposes allowing … Read more
The oil market appears to be bracing for a weeks-long disruption to shipping in the southern Red Sea, where Houthi militants have for months been attacking merchant vessels in response to Israel’s war in Gaza. Charters of tankers to haul crude and fuels – which for some vessels are arranged up to a month in … Read more
An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least four Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. The Syrian army said the building in the tightly guarded western Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh was entirely destroyed, adding that the Israeli air force fired … Read more
A group of 60 House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to emphasize the U.S. does not support forcing Palestinians out of Gaza and to firmly resist any Israeli plans that would include expulsion as a resolution to the Israel-Hamas war. In a letter sent to Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Thursday and shared … Read more
Houthi followers lift rifles and shout slogans against the U.S.-U.K. during a tribal gathering on January 14, 2024 on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. Mohammed Hamoud | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Houthi rebels are enthusiastically “confronting America directly,” the organization’s leader said in a televised speech, vowing to continue the group’s … Read more
Democrats in the House of Representatives are discussing asking President Joe Biden for the resignation of Brett McGurk, his deeply controversial Middle East adviser, according to a Democratic lawmaker and a senior congressional aide. Led by progressives who see McGurk as driving a counterproductive Middle East policy with an unacceptable human rights toll, the effort … Read more
More than 100 days into the U.S.-backed Israeli offensive in Gaza, women in the besieged Palestinian enclave are giving birth in overcrowded shelters or tents, premature babies are dying without access to hospital incubators, and dire food shortages are leaving newborns malnourished. Despite promises by the U.S. and other governments to use a United Nations … Read more
The Ebba Maersk container ship, operated by A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, leaves Suez port and heads towards the Red Sea after passing through the Suez Canal in Suez, Egypt on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Kristian Helgesen | Bloomberg | Getty Images DAVOS, Switzerland — Top CEOs are closely following tensions in the Red Sea, warning that … Read more
