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Israel’s military said Friday it will fire air force reservists who signed an open letter that condemns the war in Gaza for mainly serving political interests while failing to bring home the hostages. In a statement to The Associated Press, an army official said there was no room for
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More than 100 Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian military against Ukraine are mercenaries who do not appear to have a direct link to China’s government, two US officials familiar with American intelligence and a former Western intelligence official said. Chinese military officers have, however, been in the theater
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Frustration grew Friday in the Dominican Republic as families of some of the 222 people killed in a nightclub roof collapse three days earlier waited for their loved ones’ bodies to be identified. Dozens of desperate relatives waited in tents at the forensic morgue in Santo Domingo, the capital city
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has replaced its foreign minister with his deputy, Monday Semaya Kumba, state media reported, following a migration dispute with the United States. No explanation was given for the sacking of Foreign Minister Ramadan Mohammed, which was announced on the state radio station late on
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The Trump administration has added over 6,000 immigrants to a database of dead Social Security recipients, effectively cutting off benefits and their ability to work, US media reported Thursday. Adding the immigrants to the so-called “death file” is “aimed at putting pressure on the undocumented immigrants to leave the
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Germany’s Siemens said on Friday that Agustin Escobar, the company’s global CEO for its Rail Infrastructure division, was killed with his family in a New York helicopter crash on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Agustin Escobar and his
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The Taliban’s morality police have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles, and others for missing prayers at mosques during Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday, 6 months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect. The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects
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Israel said Wednesday its troops are seizing “large areas” in Gaza and making the Palestinian territory “smaller and more isolated,” as an air strike on a residential block killed at least 23 people. Defense Minister Israel Katz’s comments come weeks into a renewed offensive by the military on the
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Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, the Vatican announced. It was the first known meeting since the pope’s return to
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Ukraine continues to strike Russian energy infrastructure on a daily basis, in violation of a US-brokered 30 day moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure. Russia and Ukraine have both accused each other of violating the pause on strikes. Reuters was
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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday. The deaths last month are among the first to be directly attributed
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Rescuers raced to find survivors Tuesday among the rubble of a Dominican Republic nightclub where at least 79 people, including a prominent merengue performer and a former Major League Baseball star, were killed when the roof collapsed. Renowned Dominican merengue singer Rubby Perez, who was on stage at the popular
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The French capital on Tuesday made Istanbul’s jailed mayor a citizen of honor, with the city’s top official throwing her support behind the Turkish opposition figure. Mass protests have erupted in Turkiye after the March 19 arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, a main rival to President Recip Tayyip Erdogan,
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday during a White House appearance with President Donald Trump that new negotiations were in the works aimed at getting more hostages released from Hamas captivity in Gaza. “We’re working now on another deal that we hope will succeed, and we’re committed
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Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing petitions challenging a government decision to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency, Ronen Bar, that cited “lack of trust.” Opposition politicians and non-profit groups have contested the move, which Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said was “tainted by personal
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Civilians trapped in Sudan’s El-Fasher city are facing “catastrophic” conditions, activists warned on Sunday, with their situation rapidly deteriorating amid a months-long paramilitary siege. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have taken most of the vast Darfur region in their war against the regular army since April 2023, but El-Fasher