WASHINGTON, United States -- The US intelligence community has estimated there were likely 100 to 300 people killed in the strike at the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, according to excerpts of a document seen Thursday by AFP -- far fewer than the nearly 500 deaths that health authorities in the...
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...
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...
