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UN: Haiti Gangs Kill 1,500 in Three Months
Gang violence has killed more than 1,500 people in Haiti so far this year, the United Nations said Thursday, as it deplored the continuing stream of weapons pouring into the Caribbean Island nation. The U.N. described the situation in the...
Chinese Pastor Released After 7 Years in Prison, Unable to Get ID
BEIJING — Unable to buy a train ticket, or even see a doctor at a hospital, a Chinese pastor found that his even after release from prison, he is not quite free. The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison while...
US Military Airlifts Embassy Personnel From Haiti, Bolsters Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces bolster embassy security, as Caribbean nation reels under a state of emergency....
Hunger Rampant in Gaza as Israel, Hamas Fighting Intensifies
Fighting intensified between Hamas and Israel on Thursday as a U.N.-backed body warned that the entire population of Gaza – more than 2 million people – is at crisis levels or worse of hunger and the potential for famine is on the horizon. Heavy...
Violence Escalates Between Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — Violence escalated at Lebanon's border with Israel on Sunday as Hezbollah launched explosive drones and powerful missiles at Israeli positions and Israeli airstrikes rocked several towns and villages in south Lebanon. Israel and...
Israel, Hamas Engage in Fierce Battles in Gaza’s Biggest Cities
Israeli forces shot and killed six Palestinians on Friday in a refugee camp, near the town of Tubas on the occupied West Bank as the Israel-Hamas war in the southern Gaza Strip entered its third month. Also Friday, Israel’s military responded to an...
Fighting Between Hamas and Israel Resumes in Gaza
Fighting between Hamas and Israel has resumed in Gaza after a seven-day cessation that facilitated the exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and the flow of humanitarian aid in the devastated enclave. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says...
Israel, Hamas Agree to Extend Truce for Two More Days
Israel and Hamas reached an agreement Monday to extend their cease-fire in Gaza for two more days, with the militants releasing more hostages and the Jewish state freeing more Palestinian prisoners, the Qatari government announced. The extension of...
Release of Hostages, Prisoners Begins Under Israel-Hamas Truce
JERUSALEM / WASHINGTON — As a truce took effect between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, President Joe Biden on Friday took partial credit for the negotiated release of hostages by Hamas and the freeing of prisoners by Israel, saying it was the “result of...
Iran President Says Israeli 'Normalization' Deals Will Fail
WASHINGTON — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in a U.S. television interview on Sunday that U.S.-sponsored efforts to normalize Israeli relations with Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, "will see no success." In an interview with CNN,...