Manahel al-Otaibi, who frequently promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws A young women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia was secretly sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in Israel with a big focus on providing humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel is still threatening to move on Rafah, in Southern Gaza, despite U.S. opposition.
Israel reduced the initial number of hostages it wants released to 33. If Hamas agrees to attend, negotiations on a cease-fire could resume in Cairo this week.
Britain has sent a first asylum seeker to Rwanda, British media reported on Tuesday, a week after adopting a controversial law allowing irregular migrants to be deported to the east African country.
Opposition to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain has united Nevadans across political lines — until now. A Senate candidate has spoken favorably about the idea.
Brown University leaders have agreed to hold a vote on divesting from companies that support Israel, and pro-Palestinian student demonstrators agreed to clear their encampment.
Pictures released by US central command come after satellite photos showed US navy ship offshore with floating platform being built alongside it See all of our Israel-Gaza coverage The US military has released pictures it says show that...
The protests have come at a fearful time for Palestinians in Rafah, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowing to launch a ground invasion of the city.
The president spoke with the Israeli prime minister on Sunday, the same day Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken left for his latest trip to the Middle East.
The European hospital is crammed with severely injured and dying children – a military offensive here will be catastrophic James Elder is Unicef’s global spokesperson The war against Gaza’s children is forcing many to close their eyes....
NPR's A Martinez speaks with Oona Hathaway, professor of international law at Yale University, about how International Criminal Court arrest warrants might affect the war in Gaza.
Two men were in business together until Oct. 7. The Israeli looks forward to a day when that trade will resume, while the Palestinian hopes he'll survive a war in which he has lost everything.
A senior Hamas official told French media on Sunday that the group would deliver its response to Israel's latest counterproposal for a Gaza ceasefire on Monday in Egypt. International mediators have stepped up efforts to reach a deal...
Subterranean operations at Galilee Medical Center are a striking example of how life in northern Israel has been upended since Hezbollah began launching near-daily attacks.
Experts describe the plan as a legal long shot, but say it could sow doubts about the integrity of a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump.
Riyadh seeks more modest agreement with Washington in absence of Gaza ceasefire and Netanyahu resistance to Palestinian state The US and Saudi Arabia have drafted a set of agreements on security and technology-sharing which were intended...
The organization halted aid efforts in the enclave after seven of its workers were killed in an Israeli attack. It said it would resume operations with a local team of Palestinian aid workers.
In a new district, the fiery Colorado congresswoman enjoys a solid base among the GOP's MAGA wing. But some are put off by her indiscretions and messy personal life.
The port explosion of 2020 damaged just about everything in the city and this painful but tender doc follows a film crew who try to resume work ‘How much bad news can you get in one day?” That’s the production manager of a Lebanese movie...
Everest guide Adrian Ballinger is breaking with decades of tradition to create what he believes are better and more ethical ways to climb the world's tallest mountain.
A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the group would deliver its response to Israel's latest counterproposal for a Gaza ceasefire on Monday in Egypt as mediators stepped up efforts to reach a deal ahead of an Israeli assault...
Some 20,000 Georgians staged a "March for Europe" Sunday, calling on the government to scrap a controversial "foreign influence" bill which the EU has warned would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.
Israel says the number of trucks entering the enclave has doubled to an average of 400 a day. The U.N. disputes that, but agrees that the pace of deliveries has quickened.
Iraq’s parliament passed a bill on Saturday criminalising same-sex relations, which will receive a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, in a move rights groups condemned as an “attack on human rights”.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced she will stand in June’s European Parliament elections to boost support for her far-right Brothers of Italy party and encourage European conservatives, though she will not take up the seat...
The University of California has rejected calls for divestment from Israel and an academic boycott of the Mideast state, two demands driving the current wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests.
International development agencies have been meeting with Middle East business interests and urban planners to map out an economic future for the territory.
Hamas will respond to an Israeli truce proposal for Gaza "within a very short period", an official with the Palestinian militant group said Wednesday, stressing that any ceasefire needs to be permanent. US Secretary of State Antony...
Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the New York hush money trial, fined the ex-president for repeatedly violating a gag order and threatened incarceration.
A path forward through Judaism | Pedro Sánchez and Humza Yousaf | Tinned fish | Curator stereotypes | Dodecahedron mystery As an American Jew, I found Naomi Klein’s article deeply inspiring ( We need an exodus from Zionism,...
Republican governor says on social media ‘no encampments will be allowed’ as videos show police using pepper spray Protesters who returned to the University of Texas at Austin on Monday were greeted by dozens of law enforcement officers,...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday to push for a much-awaited ceasefire deal hours after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to launch a military offensive on Rafah “with or without” a deal....
The relatives of Keith Siegel and Omri Miran, who were taken as hostage to Gaza and had videos recently released of them, have made an appeal to the international community for help obtaining their 'immediate release'. Elan Siegel, the...
The UN's highest court has declined to order Germany to end its military aid to Israel, finding there was as yet not enough evidence for the court to compel Germany to chance its policies.
New recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force say breast cancer screening should begin at 40 and continue every other year through age 74.
Gustavo Petro tells May Day rally ‘if Palestine dies, humanity dies’, as Israeli foreign minister accuses president of antisemitism Colombia’s president has announced that his government will sever diplomatic relations with Israel, in...