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Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a hefty 16% increase in military spending next year and eased its postwar ban on lethal weapons exports, underscoring a shift away from the country’s self-defense-only principle.The moves came as Japan accelerates the deployment of long-range cruise missi...
Indonesian authorities detected at least five boats packed tight with refugees approaching shores of Aceh province, officials said Thursday.The boats are the latest in a surge of vessels that have arrived in Aceh, most carrying Rohingya refugees from southern Bangladesh, where the persecuted Muslim ...
Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings held a street protest on Thursday accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country.They briefly marched outside the Parliament building in New ...
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Israel's defense minister said it will take months to destroy Hamas, predicting a drawn-out war even as his country and its top ally, the United States, face increasing international isolation and alarm over the devastation from the campaign in Gaza.Yoav Gallant's comments came as U.S. natio...
From trade to human rights, the leaders of China and the European Union differed on a wide range of issues at a summit this week in the Chinese capital.China, which sees Europe as an important export market, raised concerns about trade protectionism and "de-risking," the EU initiative to r...
Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza's second-largest city early Tuesday, sending ambulances and private cars racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war.Under U.S. pressure to prevent further mass casualties, Israel says it is being mor...
Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year, highlighting the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person.It topped “Swiftie” (an enthusiastic fan of Taylor Swift), “situationship...
Israel and Hamas are preparing for a fourth exchange of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, as mediators seek to extend a cease-fire in Gaza that is set to expire after Monday.On Sunday, Hamas freed 17 more hostages — 14 Israelis and three Thais — in a third exc...
Gaza's Health Ministry says 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital and will be transferred to hospitals in Egypt.Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the ministry, said they were evacuated from the hospital on Sunday.A World Health Organization team that visited Shifa Hospital on S...
NATO on Tuesday announced the formal suspension of a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s pullout from the deal. The alliance also said its members who signed the treaty are now freezing their participation in the pact.Most of NATO’s 31 allies have signed the Treaty o...
The Florida Legislature will return to the Capitol for a special session Monday that will allow lawmakers to express their support for Israel, while giving Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis some talking points as he campaigns for president.Lawmakers are expected to consider new sanctions against Iran, wh...
Israeli troops and armor pushed deeper into northern and central Gaza on Monday, as the U.N. and medical staff warned that airstrikes are hitting closer to hospitals where tens of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter alongside thousands of wounded.Video obtained by the Associated Press show...
Yousra Abu Sharekh's days begin in the southern Gaza Strip often after sleepless nights amid blaring ambulance sirens and the clamor of neighbors in the brief pause between relentless Israeli airstrikes.By daybreak, the 33-year-old mother is on the hunt for bread, lining up for hours at bakeries...
A shooter opened fire inside a major shopping mall in the center of Thailand's capital Tuesday afternoon, killing at least two people before being apprehended, authorities said.Police said a suspect was taken into custody less than an hour after the first reported gunshots at the Siam Paragon Ma...
Germany’s government rebuked X owner Elon Musk after he criticized the recent work of migrant rescue ships that German humanitarian groups operate in the Mediterranean Sea.Musk late Friday shared a video that showed migrants and aid workers on a boat. The right-wing account that first put the ...
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President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring Thursday that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation's core values and suggesting even mainstream Republicans a...
Over 220 individuals and 25 organizations in 40 countries across the world faced threats and retaliation from State and non-State actors for cooperating with the UN on human rights. The information is in the UN Secretary-General’s report on reprisals** presented today, which covers the pe...
The window to limit human-caused warming to a globally agreed goal is narrowing but still open because of the huge growth of solar energy and electric vehicles sales worldwide, a report said Tuesday.For the last two years, the rate of the build up of solar energy and electric vehicle sales were in l...
The Biden administration announced Monday that it is offering a $2 billion loan to Poland, which has been a hub for weapons going into Ukraine, to support the ally’s defense modernization.The State Department said in a statement that Poland is a “stalwart” ally of the U.S. whose &l...
Travis Kelce put the ball in Taylor Swift's court, and she wound up bringing it to Arrowhead Stadium after all.The 12-time Grammy Award winner took advantage of an invitation from the All-Pro tight end to see the Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. Swift was...
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