Netanyahu says Gaza-Egypt border zone should be under Israeli control | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Netanyahu says Gaza-Egypt border zone should be under Israeli control | Israel-Palestine conflict News

BREAKINGBREAKING, The Israeli prime minister also predicts the war in Gaza and on other regional fronts would last many months. The border zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt should be under Israel’s control, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, as he predicted the war in the Palestinian enclave…

US appeals court allows California to ban guns in most public places | Gun Violence News

US appeals court allows California to ban guns in most public places | Gun Violence News

A federal appeals court put on hold a judge’s ruling that declared the law, set to take effect in 2024, unconstitutional. A federal appeals court in the United States has cleared the way for a law passed by the state of California that bans carrying guns in most public places….

How an impasse in the South China Sea drove the Philippines, US closer | South China Sea News

How an impasse in the South China Sea drove the Philippines, US closer | South China Sea News

Manila, Philippines – On February 2, 1995, just over two years after the last American soldiers had left the Philippines, a Filipino navy patrol boat found a newly built structure on stilts flying a Chinese flag on a submerged reef, some 240 kilometres (149 miles) off the Philippine island of…

Israeli air raids target Syrian city of Aleppo as regional tensions rise | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli air raids target Syrian city of Aleppo as regional tensions rise | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Syrian defence ministry says the ‘aerial aggression’ came from the Mediterranean and hit a number of places. Israel has targeted Iranian military positions in Syria’s Aleppo with an air raid, causing some material damage, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defence. “Israel carried out an aerial aggression from the direction…

Analysis: Has Israel weakened Hamas enough to win the war on Gaza? | Gaza

Analysis: Has Israel weakened Hamas enough to win the war on Gaza? | Gaza

Almost 23,000 people – the vast majority Palestinian – have been killed since the unprecedented Hamas attacks in southern Israel on October 7, which launched the Israeli assault on Gaza. As the end of 2023 approaches, the Israeli offensive is showing no signs of any let-up and the death toll…

How do Palestinians factor into Israel’s vision for the Middle East? | Israel-Palestine conflict

How do Palestinians factor into Israel’s vision for the Middle East? | Israel-Palestine conflict

David Frum, writer for The Atlantic magazine and pro-Israel commentator, says Palestinian statehood is not the solution. David Frum, staff writer for The Atlantic magazine and a pro-Israel supporter, tells host Steve Clemons that Israel and the United States should “avoid solution-ism” for the Palestinians and focus on day-to-day necessities,…

Photos: Romania’s annual Dancing Bears Festival to ‘ward off evil spirits’ | In Pictures

Photos: Romania’s annual Dancing Bears Festival to ‘ward off evil spirits’ | In Pictures

Centuries ago, people in what is now northeastern Romania donned bear skins and danced to fend off evil spirits. That custom is today known as the Dancing Bears Festival, drawing crowds of tourists every December. Hundreds of people of all ages, clad in bear costumes, dance every year around Christmas to the…

Thousands protest in Serbia alleging election fraud by governing party | Elections News

Thousands protest in Serbia alleging election fraud by governing party | Elections News

Protesters accuse President Aleksandar Vucic’s ruling party of fraud and demand the December 17 election be annulled. Thousands of people have gathered in Serbia’s capital in the biggest protest yet over this month’s parliamentary and municipal elections, accusing President Aleksandar Vucic’s governing party of orchestrating a fraud and asking the…

Pakistan poll body rejects ex-PM Imran Khan’s nomination for 2024 elections | Elections News

Pakistan poll body rejects ex-PM Imran Khan’s nomination for 2024 elections | Elections News

The jailed leader’s bid to overturn his disqualification in the wake of conviction in a corruption case rejected by election body. Pakistan’s election body has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 parliamentary elections, with Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-e Insaf (PTI) party accusing authorities of stopping most…

Year of the underdog: How ‘outsiders’ upended Latin America’s elections | Elections News

Year of the underdog: How ‘outsiders’ upended Latin America’s elections | Elections News

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Poverty through the roof. Out-of-control inflation. Overwhelming debt. Javier Milei painted the grimmest of pictures when he delivered his inaugural address as president of Argentina earlier this month. “There is no money,” he said in a grave voice. “There is no alternative to tightening our belt….