Yelena Trupanob, 50, a Russian Israeli hostage who was released from captivity in Gaza three days ago, had a message for the thousands of demonstrators who gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to continue to pressure the Israeli government to make freeing the remaining hostages a top priority. “I came to say thank you,” …
Source: Satellite image by Maxar Technologies Up to 1.8 million Gazans — around 80 percent of the population — have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. That number is expected to rise after Israel issued a new evacuation order on Saturday for …
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said passers-by were targeted in the Quai de Grenelle area.
There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries on the Philippines’ southern Mindanao island, but videos showed the violent tremors shaking goods from shop shelves, and street light bulbs blowing. Read more: Two powerful earthquakes hit the Philippines
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization. Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna and a bar that hosted LGBTQ parties, under the pretext of …
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday that the United States fiercely opposes forcibly relocating Gaza residents outside the enclave as Israel resumes its bombardment of Hamas terrorists, or in the days and weeks after the war eventually ends. In a statement after meeting with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt in Dubai, officials said …
The federal government says Canada’s promised oil and gas emissions cap framework could drop any day. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault — now in Dubai for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP28 — said Friday he would be “shocked if this framework wasn’t presented at the end of this conference.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed …
For author and political activist Naomi Klein, red paint and posters plastered on an Indigo book store in Toronto, accusing the chain’s founder Heather Reisman of “funding genocide” for her support of Israel, had nothing to do with the fact that she’s Jewish. “That’s an outrageous slander,” she said at a rally this week in front one of the bookstores in support …
Less than two weeks after being freed on bail, prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been arrested again. The outspoken critic of the Iranian regime previously spent a year and 21 days in detention, including 252 days in solitary confinement, in Isfahan Central Prison in Iran. The initial account of his rearrest came from Negin Niknaam, the …
Civilians in parts of north and south Gaza have been told to evacuate as Israel’s renewed bombardment continues.