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1:06 p.m. ET, March 9, 2024 Why aid experts say the risks of airdrops outweigh their benefits From CNN’s Niamh Kennedy The US has joined several other countries in airdropping aid into Gaza, which is grappling with a humanitarian crisis. Aid deliveries on land are severely restricted by Israel and falling far short of the numbers needed to […]
US military says it was responding to a large-scale attack by the Iran-aligned group that posed an ‘imminent threat’. United States Navy ships and aircraft have shot down 15 drones fired by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea area. The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that the US-led naval coalition was […]
African bloc says all people have right to cross international borders during conflict as Ukraine-Russia war continues. The African Union (AU) says it is “disturbed” by reports that African nationals in Ukraine are been prevented from safely crossing the border to flee the raging conflict in the country. In a statement late Monday, the pan-African […]
Announcement to be made at State of the Union address as Biden faces outrage over steadfast support for Israel. United States President Joe Biden will announce a plan to create a new port in Gaza to increase deliveries of humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged enclave, senior US officials told reporters. The officials said Biden will […]
Putin is all but certain to win his fifth election, and he announced his candidacy in December during a choreographed ceremony in a lavishly decorated Kremlin hall when talking to a separatist “colonel” from the southeastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. “On behalf of all of our people, our Donbas, the lands that reunited [with Russia], […]
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for greater war fighting capabilities against the United States and South Korea, state media reported Thursday, after his defense ministry vowed to respond to the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. During a visit to a western […]
7:51 p.m. ET, March 5, 2024 Food aid convoy turned away by Israeli forces in Gaza, UN World Food Programme says From CNN’s Amy Cassidy and Sharon Braithwaite Israeli forces prevented a food aid convoy from traveling to northern Gaza on Tuesday, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said. UN agencies and Palestinian officials have warned […]
U.N. experts said in a report that they have “reasonable grounds to believe” some victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel were raped and sexually assaulted, and . . .
VICKSBURG, Miss. – Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. would […]