Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Xavier Becerra, who previously served as California attorney general, joined a growing field of Democrats running next year to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Ramping up its renewed offensive in Gaza since the ceasefire broke down last month, Israel's latest airstrikes killed 100 Palestinians on Thursday, as Israel continued its month-long blockade of humanitarian aid entering the enclave....Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, who won an Oscar for co-directing a documentary on Israeli violence in the West Bank, told FRANCE 24 on Thursday that the situation was getting worse despite the film’s success. He called for immediate...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
The move is announced hours after Israel's PM, who is sought under an ICC arrest warrant, arrives in Budapest for a state visit.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Middle East
France’s Emmanuel Macron held his first phone call in months with Algerian leader Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Monday night, as the two sought to end a diplomatic standoff over Algeria’s refusal to take back its expelled nationals, the...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
After a decade of conflict, loss is constant, as is fear for our children’s future. But we are more than this A decade of war in Yemen has left us in a place we never could have imagined. Our biggest worries were once exams, work and...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration's roll-out of sweeping global tariffs tariffs has prompted urgent questions about how the new taxes were calculated, how long they will last and what exactly the White House hopes to achieve with them.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
The Israeli military said on Friday it had killed Hassan Farhat, a commander of Palestinian militant group Hamas, in the Sidon region of southern Lebanon.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
Many Palestinians say they are going hungry after Israel stopped all aid deliveries to put pressure on Hamas.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Israel launched a full-fledged ground offensive in Gaza City on Friday as the IDF pushed to expand a new militarised security corridor across the devastated Palestinian territory. More than 1,200 people have been killed since Israel's...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East
Hungary's government has decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, it said on Thursday, shortly after Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, sought under an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in the country for a state visit.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The Abu Teirs thought the Israel-Hamas cease-fire might mean they could start to rebuild their lives. But a new round of Israeli airstrikes dashed those dreams.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
Israel said the operation had killed a militant who was “likely personally involved in the abduction” of the Bibas family on Oct. 7.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers • Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again Gaza is one of the...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Munther Abed, 27, was in the first ambulance on the scene of an airstrike near Rafah when Israeli soldiers opened fire • Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline A survivor from a massacre of Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Four days of shocking violence in north-west Syria left more than 1,500 people dead – including at least 745 civilians – in some of Syria’s deadliest days of fighting since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. Widespread revenge...Friday, April 4, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
In one of the biggest cases he worked on, he represented Time magazine when Mr. Sharon, Israel’s defense minister, sued it over its reporting on a 1983 massacre in Lebanon.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
Palestinian paramedic Munther Abed rejects Israel's assertion that the vehicles approached troops with their lights off.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
How do I know? Because we've been here before, watching the fiasco of Trump's first-term trade war with China.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workers After 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
Palestinian authorities say children were among the dead, while Israel says it hit a Hamas command-and-control centre.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
An Israeli airstrike on Thursday killed at least 27 Palestinians, including women and children, inside a school building that served as a shelter for displaced families in Gaza City, local health authorities said.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
The Israeli military said Thursday it was investigating an incident in which its troops opened fire on ambulances, claiming to have targeted "terrorists". The UN reported that 15 medics and humanitarian workers were killed.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East
Tensions with the United States are rising as Europe draws up plans to spend hundreds of billions of euros on defence. EU leaders say the bloc must prepare to rely less on American military support, but Washington has warned against...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had seized a corridor of land that would split one of Gaza’s largest cities from the rest of the enclave.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
A group of Jews who left Syria decades ago wants sanctions relief for a government with former ties to Al Qaeda, despite wariness from other Jewish groups and from Israel.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
The Seattle-area homes of Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell and former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman are the latest burglaries of prominent professional athletes.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Financial markets continued to slide and pushback against Trump's tariffs continues to grow, both in the U.S. and abroad.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that nearly all of the 15 bodies recovered had gunshot wounds.Friday, April 4, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
The BBC's Hugo Bachega explores the future for Hezbollah in the wake of Israel's devastating attacks.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has new details for Israel's expanded incursion in Gaza, saying Israeli troops are seizing more land there.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
On March 13, Syria's Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa approved a temporary constitutional declaration, setting the stage for a new regime. The declaration specifies that only the state can have an army. This has raised concerns for the...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Syria on Thursday condemned deadly Israeli strikes across the country as a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty, after Israel said it struck "military capabilities". The onslaught on military targets and in the southern province of...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East
King Frederik X’s three day visit to France has marked a significant step in strengthening Denmark’s alliances, securing military support, and reinforcing European unity in the face of global challenges, and as US President Donald Trump...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
Anxious residents rushed to obtain bags of flour as the United Nations warned that Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries were deepening the humanitarian crisis.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
This blog is now closed, you can read our full report here Airstrikes continued on Gaza on Wednesday morning after the Israeli defense minister announced that Israel intended to expand its war. In a statement, Israel Katz said the...Friday, April 4, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
What one image shows about the aftermath of a strike on a shelter in Gaza.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
In a Trump-friendly slice of California, concerns about higher prices and uncertainty about the economy were palpable as the White House announced tariff plans.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
Police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid claims that members of his team worked simultaneously for the state of Qatar. He is not a suspect, but two of his media advisers have been arrested.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East
The latest wave of violence to engulf Haiti – including a mass jailbreak and deadly protests – has allowed criminal gangs to tighten their grip on key urban areas, plunging the country further into chaos and testing the limits of the...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
In pressing forward with its assault on the territory, Israel hopes to squeeze Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages. But other objectives have emerged.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions in Operation Rough Rider against the Houthi militia, officials said.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
President Trump says his tariffs are 'reciprocal.' But his formula doesn't try to match the tariffs other countries impose on the U.S. Economists are highly skeptical about the new calculationFriday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Israel launched a full-fledged ground offensive in Gaza City on Friday as the IDF pushed to expand a new militarised security corridor across the devastated Palestinian territory. More than 1,200 people have been killed since Israel's...Friday, April 4, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
Demanding an end to the war, hundreds pressed the militants to relinquish control of the enclave, a rare demonstration against a group that has suppressed dissent with violence.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
As tensions rise over immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, a family is struggling to reunite an orphaned Mexican boy with his brother and sister in California.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Inter Press Service » Middle East & North Africa
The end of the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is having disastrous consequences for women and girls. From 18 to 25 March—in just those 8 days, 830 people were killed—174 women, 322 children, with 1,787 more injured. Let me break that down...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
Hungary said it will start the process to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in Budapest.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Friends and colleagues in Los Angeles are mourning the death of Father Richard Estrada, whose decades of activism were infused with an unconditional commitment to advocating for vulnerable populations.