This picture taken from a position near Sderot along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023, shows flares dropped by Israeli forces above the Palestinian enclave amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)...
TOKYO, Japan– US military bases in Japan will offer service personnel local seafood in a gesture of support after China banned imports over worries about water discharges from Fukushima, the US embassy said Tuesday. Japan began releasing treated wastewater from the stricken...
NEW DELHI, India–Police in India say they have charged a man in connection with a bomb blast at a Jehovah's Witnesses prayer meeting that killed three people. Dozens were also injured in Sunday's explosion at a convention centre where more than 2,000 people had gathered for a three-day...
SEOUL, South Korea– Two South Korean police officers were stabbed outside a compound that houses the presidential office in Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday. The 77-year-old assailant, identified by his surname Park, began yelling in front of the compound and stabbed the...
MOSCOW, Russia - A mob looking for Israelis and Jews overran an airport in Russia's Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday, after rumours spread that a flight was arriving from Israel. The violence in the mostly Muslim region, which erupted amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, prompted...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to stand up to "imperialist" forces as he led Turkish centenary celebrations in the shadow of Israel's escalating war with Hamas militants in Gaza. People walk around Eminonu square in Istanbul on October 29, 2023, during...
WASHINGTON, United States- Israel must protect innocent Gaza residents by distinguishing between Hamas militants and civilians, the White House warned Sunday, as world leaders stepped up calls for desperately needed humanitarian aid to reach the war-torn Palestinian territory. Israel has...
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Acapulco was struggling Sunday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 48 lives across southern Mexico and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages. TOPSHOT - Aerial view of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Puerto...
GENEVA, Switzerland– The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned on Saturday that there was the potential for thousands more civilians to die as Israel presses a ground operation in Gaza. "Given the manner in which military operations have been conducted until now, in...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (center right) look on during a meeting at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on October 27, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States– The United States and China agreed...
Graphic content / Flares are fired from northern Israel over the southern Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, on October 28,2023. Nearly 29,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid deadly exchanges between Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli army, a United Nations agency said...
Police stand guard along a road in central Dhaka on October 28, 2023, ahead of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami plan to hold a major rally banned by police to demand the restoration of the caretaker government. (Photo by Munir uz ZAMAN / AFP) DHAKA, Bangladesh– Police fired tear gas...
