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Joel Carillet/Getty Images (GAZA) — Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel. At least 50 Israelis […]
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 300 people have died and over 2,000 have been injured in Gaza and Israel after rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel by Hamas militants, Israeli authorities said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 are dead and 1,610 others are injured in Gaza. According to the […]
QASIM Mirzaie / 500px/Getty Images (AFGHANISTAN) — At least 100 people are dead and at least 500 injured after powerful earthquakes struck western Afghanistan on Saturday, the United Nations said. The United States Geological Survey reported two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes, as well as several strong aftershocks, near the city of Herat. One of the aftershocks […]
REIHANE TARAVATI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize recipients each year, decided to award this year’s prize to Mohammadi, 51, “for her fight against the oppression of women in […]
Mark Makela/Getty Images (FIGUEIROPÓLIS, Brazil) — A convicted murderer who had eluded capture since escaping from a Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago is accused of committing a separate slaying in his home country of Brazil in 2017. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, allegedly shot his friend Valter Junior Moreira dos Reis five times in the remote town of […]
Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images LONDON — The death toll from devastating floods in eastern Libya has reached 5,300, a local health official said Wednesday. The number of deaths is expected to continue rising as search and rescue teams recover more bodies in what the United Nations has described as a “calamity of epic proportions.” Another […]
belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for about five hours on Wednesday, touring a space base in Russia’s Far East and signaling a unified front against the West. “I am so grateful you are paying such attention to our visit to Russia,” Putin said at […]
FILE photo — Alison Wright/Getty Images (LONDON) — A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passengers has run aground off the coast of Greenland. The Ocean Explorer, a 104.4-meter (343-foot) long and 18-meter (60 foot) ship ran aground on Monday near Alpefjord in the Northeast Greenland National Park — a 375,000 square mile area that is […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea launched a possible ballistic missile on Wednesday, Japan’s Ministry of Defense said in a tweet. The missile launch comes as North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia for a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A short while after the initial news broke, South Korea’s […]
belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has arrived at the Vostochny Cosmodrome for his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin greeted him in front of the building. The two shook hands and walked inside. “I’m very glad to see you,” Putin said upon greeting Kim, according to RIA News, […]
