BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's army blamed Israel Friday for killing a member of a "journalist team" covering cross-border tensions in the country's south, as war rages further south between Israel and Gaza-based militants. On Thursday, "a journalist team of seven people covering news... near the...
WASHINGTON, United States -- President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the United States to show global leadership by backing Israel and Ukraine, saying in a speech from the Oval Office Thursday that defeating Hamas and Russia was a vital US interest. TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden...
JERUSALEM, Undefined -- Israel has threatened that every Hamas member faces death when it invades Gaza but two accused masterminds of the October 7 attacks are at the top of its hit list. (FILES) Yahia Sinwar (C), Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, waves to supporters as...
SPAIN (AFP) -- Jenni Hermoso was on Wednesday, Oct. 18, included in the Spain women's squad for the first time since the scandal over the unsolicited kiss former federation president Luis Rubiales gave her following the Women's World Cup final in Australia. Former Spain's football federation...
TEL AVIV, Israel - Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered full US backing for Israel in person, on a solidarity visit in which he blamed Islamist militants for a deadly rocket strike on a Gaza hospital and announced the resumption of urgent aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave. US President Joe...
NEW YORK, United States - A woman was arrested on Wednesday for disrupting Donald Trump's civil fraud trial after she approached the former US president in court saying she wanted to "assist him," a court spokesman said. Former US President Donald Trump The woman, a court employee, was "safely...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Israeli government struck a Syrian military position in the war-torn country's south, a war monitoring NGO said on Wednesday. "Sounds of explosions rang out in the province of Quneitra after an Israeli strike against a Syrian army position," said the UK-based Syrian...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Netflix on Wednesday said subscriber numbers grew nearly 11 percent to 247 million in the recently ended third quarter as it cracked down on password sharing and refined an ad-supported tier. (Photo from AFP) The leading streaming service said it is increasing...
WASHINGTON, United States - A Russian-American journalist working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, her employer and a journalist watchdog group said Wednesday. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor with the US...
LONDON, United Kingdom - UK police on Wednesday charged Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg with a public order offence, following her detention at a protest outside an annual gathering of energy industry figures in London. The 20-year-old activist -- a key face of the movement to fight...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The British Museum in London has recovered 350 of approximately 2,000 artefacts believed to have been stolen from its collection by an ex-employee, chairman George Osborne said Wednesday. The storied museum, one of the UK capital's biggest tourist draws best...
CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's president said Wednesday he would not allow any mass influx of refugees from Gaza, saying it would set a precedent for "the displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank into Jordan." After talks with visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, President Abdel Fattah...
