Senior Pentagon and Department of State officials warned US President Joe Biden’s administration of potential Israeli war crimes days after the start of the October 7, 2023, war on Gaza, an investigation by the Reuters news agency finds. Reuters reported on Friday that after reviewing three sets of email exchangesContinue Reading
The National Hurricane Center director has said an ‘unsurvivable scenario’ will play out in areas of Florida’s coast. Officials in the US state of Florida are pleading with residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders or face life-threatening conditions, as the enormous Hurricane Helene advanced across the Gulf of Mexico towardsContinue Reading
The Pulitzer Prize winner refuses to accept her award next month from the New York museum that fired three employees for wearing an emblem of Palestinian solidarity. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined to accept an award from New York City’s Noguchi Museum after he fired three employees forContinue Reading
The United States and United Kingdom have both agreed to review Ukraine’s request to lift restrictions on the use of their long-range missilesincluding Storm Shadow missiles, in Russian territory. But the growing indications from the West that it may approve Ukraine’s desire to use these weapons deep inside Russian territoryContinue Reading
Boeing’s United States West Coast factory workers stood in long lines to vote on Thursday on a much-criticized new contract, some loudly calling for a strike, piling pressure on the planemaker as it wrestles with chronic production delays and mounting debt. A potential strike could start on Friday, which wouldContinue Reading
Soon after Kamala Harris and Donald Trump left the Philadelphia stage following the United States presidential debatemusician Taylor Swift He threw his support behind Harris. Swift posted a picture of herself and her pet cat on Tuesday night with a lengthy caption explaining why she will be voting for DemocratContinue Reading
The debate between United States Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump started with a handshake and ended with the candidates painting one another as awful leaders who should not be elected. Harris and Trump traded barbs for more than 90 minutes on Tuesday, in a debate thatContinue Reading
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz have appeared on CNN for their first major in-depth interview since launching their bid for the United States presidency. Harris, in particular, has faced scrutiny for avoiding a major media interview since announcing her candidacy late last month. But onContinue Reading
State media shows Kim looking ecstatic after a test in which drones crashed into what appeared to be a tank. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a test of domestically-developed attack drones, state media KCNA reported. Photos published by North Korean media on Monday showed a white droneContinue Reading
A delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas has landed in Cairo on Saturday evening to “listen to the results of negotiations thus far” between mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – and Israel. Observers are reluctant to call this a hopeful sign as conviction grows that Gaza ceasefireContinue Reading
