By Bassem Mroue The Associated Press Posted January 2, 2024 1:05 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency … Read more
Melissa Hoskins, an Australian Olympic track cyclist and former world champion, died after she was hit by a vehicle while out for a ride over the weekend, and now her husband has reportedly been charged in her death. A statement by the South Australian Police Sunday said that a 32-year-old woman died in an Adelaide … Read more
South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung remained hospitalized in intensive care on Wednesday, a day after a knife attack on him shocked political leaders who were vying for the upper hand in a major election three months away. Surgeons operated on Lee for more than two hours late on Wednesday to repair a … Read more
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 2, 2024 5:35 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government says a maximum of 1,000 Palestinian relatives of Canadian citizens will be able to apply to escape the Gaza Strip with Canada’s help. The special extended family program for people in Gaza is … Read more
Canada pledged to support Ukraine with “as much as it takes, for its long as it takes” as Russia intensifies its bombing campaign. But as the war in Ukraine nears its two-year mark, concerns are deepening about a slowdown in western aid. Trudeau “reiterated Canada’s commitment” to Ukraine in a New Year’s Day phone call … Read more
A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 48 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats. Officials warned that more quakes could lie ahead. Aftershocks continued to shake Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas a day after a magnitude 7.6 temblor slammed the area on Monday afternoon. Forty-eight … Read more
Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave along with intense bombardment. Israel says the conflict in Gaza, which has reduced much of the territory to rubble, killing thousands and plunging … Read more
The powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year’s Day killed at least six people, as police and local authorities report cases of bodies being pulled from the rubble of collapsed buildings. The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck in the middle of the afternoon on Monday, destroying buildings, knocking out power … Read more
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, delivering a landmark decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing conflict against Hamas. The planned overhaul sparked months of mass protests, threatened to trigger a constitutional crisis between the … Read more
New Year’s Day arrived to cheers from thousands in New York’s Times Square where a sparkling crystal ball descended to start 2024 with hope for some, even as the world’s ongoing conflicts subdued celebrations and raised security concerns across the globe. “It’s beautiful,” Corin Christian of Charlotte, North Carolina, said of the scene seconds past … Read more
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