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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Hamas official says group would lay down weapons if two-state solution is implemented
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Naharnet
Gaza War   Hamas   Mideast Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech after a meeting with Central American leaders at the presidential palace in San Jose, Monday, March 30, 2009. Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion ...
President Joe Biden speaks on Wednesday before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Din... (photo: AP / Kent Gilbert) West Hawaii Today
Photos   Ukraine   United States   Wikipedia: Joe Biden   joe biden  
FILE - A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban package after Republican battle
President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new US aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bi... (photo: AP / Martin Meissner, File) GDN Online
Joe Biden   Photos   TikTok   Ukraine aid   Wikipedia: Joe Biden  
In this April 4, 2005 file photo, a sports utility vehicle drives past an ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest oil refiner, will spend more than $1 billion in the next couple of years to increase its global production of cleaner-burning diesel by about 10 percent, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Oil prices up over fall in US stockpiles and Middle East tensions
Oil prices increased on Thursday with indicators of strong US demand and supply risks from tensions in the Middle East. | International benchmark Brent crude traded at $8... (photo: AP / File) Anadolu Agency
Energy   Global Trading   Oil   Photos  
Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Israel has expanded its offensive in Khan Younis, saying the city is a stronghold of the Hamas militant group. Gaza: AI changing speed, scale and harm of modern war
As Israel’s air campaign in Gaza enters its sixth month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks on October 7, it has been described by experts as one of the most relentless a... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) Asiatimes
Artificial intelligence   Gaza   Israel   Photos  
File - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. Israeli council considers issuing international arrest warrant for Netanyahu: Report
The Israeli National Security Council held secret discussions on the possibility of issuing international arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense M... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit) Anadolu Agency
Benjamin Netanyahu   Human Rights   Israel   Photos  
The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023 Everything TikTok users need to know about a possible ban
American officials have been warning for years about the risks of TikTok, but it’s been mostly talk and little action. | This week, though, a new law will likely give t... (photo: AP / Matt Slocum) Detroit news
American   Photos   TikTok   United States   Wikipedia: TikTok  
Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a Open Forum on Fentanyl with Maggie Nardi at the State Department in Washington, DC July, 17 20203. US top diplomat Blinken visits China amid escalated tensions over Taiwan
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars i... (photo: Public Domain / Chuck Kennedy) Al Jazeera
China   Photos   Politics   US States  
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi sits during his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022 Cost of doing business with Iran? US warns Pakistan of sanctions risk
Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States has warned Pakistan of the risk of sanctions after it promised greater security and economic cooperation with Iran during a visi... (photo: AP / Iranian Presidency Office) Al Jazeera
Iran   Pakistan   Photos   US States  
Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, Friday, April 5, 2024. Many people here fled the fighting in Sudan's vast western region of Darfur, where attacks by the Arab-dominated Rapid Support Forces on ethnic African civilians have revived memories of genocide. The United Nations says close to 9 million people have fled their homes. Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows
The African country accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globally Sudan had the world’s lar... (photo: AP / Patricia Simon) The Guardian
Humanitarian Aid   Photos   Sudan   UN   Wikipedia: War in Sudan (2023present)  
A ship of Freedom Flotilla Coalition anchors at Tuzla seaport in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 19, 2024. Activists and aid workers from numerous international aid NGOs are gearing up for another attempt to break through the Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
The flotilla waits to sail from Istanbul. Photo credit: Medea Benjamin | By Medea Benjamin / CounterPunch | The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coaliti... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra) Scheerpost
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Joe Biden meets with the New Democrat Coalition in the Roosevelt Room, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at the White House Inside the White House’s monthslong push for Ukraine aid
The Senate’s vote on Tuesday to approve new aid for Ukraine capped off six months of public pressure and private overtures by the White House to build support, includin... (photo: White House / Erin Scott) CNN
Photos   Russia   Ukraine   White House  
Oil gas is pumped into a vehicle Oil prices up over strong US demand data, supply concerns
Oil prices continued their upward trend on Wednesday over robust demand indicators in the US, the world's biggest oil consumer, indicating some tightening in US markets a... (photo: Creative Commons) Anadolu Agency
Energy   Global Trading   Oil   Photos  
File - Heba al-Haddad, right, and her family displaced from Gaza City, stand in a makeshift tent camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, Friday, March 29, 2024. Al-Haddad was forced out of her home in Gaza City on March 21 when Israeli troops stormed her apartment and ordered her and her family to leave for the south. Amid fighting that has engulfed the area since Israel raided Shifa Hospital, witnesses say troops have been pushing residents out of nearby neighbourhoods. Global human rights facing most serious threats in decades: Amnesty
London: Human rights worldwide are facing their most serious threats in decades, the London-based advocacy group Amnesty International said in its annual report on Wednes... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) The Siasat Daily
Human Rights   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Ukraine War   Wikipedia: Human rights  
In this photo provided by the Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov in Telegram, firefighters work on the site of a burning building after a Russian drone attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. US approves $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The US Congress has given final approval to a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bil... (photo: AP / Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via AP) RTE
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Taiwan   Ukraine War   Wikipedia: Russo-Ukrainian War  
Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Monday, April 1, 2024. UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, in this Aug. 9, 2023 file photo. AP-Yonhap | The United Nation... (photo: AP / Mohammed Hajjar) Korea Times
Gaza War   Human Rights   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
A Ukrainian soldier gestures as he fires toward Russian position on the frontline in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Saturday, June 24, 2023 Post-1948 order ‘at risk of decimation’ amid war in Gaza, Ukraine: Amnesty
The world is facing the collapse of the 1948 international order established in the wake of World War II, amid the brutal wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while authoritarian po... (photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky) Al Jazeera
Amnesty International   Democracy   Human Rights   Photos  
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), briefs the press on UNRWA and latest developments in Gaza. UNRWA chief calls for probe into attacks on staff, premises
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinians hit back at Israel on Tuesday as he called for a Security Council probe into the "blatant disregard" for UN operati... (photo: UN / Loey Felipe) The New Arab
Israel   Palestinians   Photos   UNRWA  
Brain Parkinson’s disease and the pleasure transmitter, dopamine
By Dr. Colin Michie FRCPCH University of Central Lancashire. | Dopamine is a brain messenger, released after pleasurable life events. Its enormous powers support our deve... (photo: Creative Commons) The Daily Herald - St Maarten
Health   Photos   Science  
German police officers patrol in a terminal at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. Germany arrests far-right MEP’s aide amid suspicions of spying for China
German police have arrested an aide to a far-right Member of the European Parliament on suspicion of spying for China. | Prosecutors announced on Tuesday that Jian G is b... (photo: AP / Michael Probst) Al Jazeera
China   European Union   Germany   Photos