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The United States on Friday carried out a series of military strikes against Iranian forces and the militias they support in seven sites in Syria and Iraq, marking a sharp escalation of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration has for four months sought to avoid. The airstrikes, targeting command and control […]
The intensified military pressure comes as the U.S. and China are attempting to steer relations back on track after an icy couple of years. For example, at their meeting, Sullivan and Wang confirmed the plan to launch a collaborative U.S.-China “Counternarcotics Working Group” on Tuesday to address the fentanyl crisis. “Mr. Sullivan underscored during the […]
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS 71 dead, 160 injured arrive at Gaza hospital in past 24 hours – ministry Iran condemns US veto of ceasefire resolution GAZA/CAIRO/NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The United States vetoed a U . . .
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Israeli is considering flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater to drive out Hamas fighters – WSJ “For people ordered to evacuate, there is nowhere safe to go,” says U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric Islamic Jihad’s armed wing . . .
13m ago / 2:23 PM EDT Photos: A search for survivors in central Gaza Hatem Moussa / APHatem Moussa / AP Palestinians in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah searched for survivors after an Israeli airstrike today. Below, they helped a woman who was pulled from the rubble. 29m ago / 2:07 PM EDT […]
Comment on this storyComment Senior U.S. officials have stepped up their efforts to lead Western governments to use hundreds of billions of dollars of frozen Russian central bank reserves to help Ukraine, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations. The intensifying push to use . . .
Braving Russian shelling, three women walked for several hours from their homes on the front line in the southern Ukrainian village of Kamianske on a recent morning to collect supplies from a humanitarian drop-off point in the village of Stepnohirsk, about five miles away. Svitlana, Lesya and Natasha live in the so-called gray zone, a […]
CNN — Hurricane Hilary is rapidly intensifying in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico on Thursday and is on track to deliver potentially significant rain and flooding to parts of the Southwest as a weaker system starting this weekend. Hilary strengthened into a major Category 3 . . .
Adams complimented Tuesday’s adversaries. Yet that, too, drew blowback. “We support Iran’s people and Iran’s team. But that being said, we’re laser-focused on this match, as they are as well. We know how important this is, our progress of our team, and what we want to do to prove to our country how hard we’ve […]
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The midterm elections are just 22 days away and the fight for Black and Brown voters intensifies in a close Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race. Black voters throughout the commonwealth are at the center of an increasingly competitive race. “In every federal election, there’s a lot of attention on Philadelphia,” Committee of Seventy […]