Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 | Obituaries News

Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 | Obituaries News

New York, United States – Few Nobel Peace Prize winners are called warmongers, but the gravelly-voiced, enigmatic diplomat Henry Kissinger was. The contradictions of Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at age 100, do not end there. An academic who became a celebrity, Kissinger was a Jewish…

Analysis: Why extending the Israel-Hamas truce won’t be easy | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Analysis: Why extending the Israel-Hamas truce won’t be easy | Israel-Palestine conflict News

With hours left of the agreed pause in Gaza fighting, Israel, Hamas and the intermediaries negotiating between them were on Wednesday again in a frenzy of activity. The original truce was to have lasted until Monday, but Hamas decided to accept the Israeli offer to extend the ceasefire by a…

New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military | Business and Economy News

New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military | Business and Economy News

US Treasury Department says Iran relies on brokers, front companies to finance proxies across region, including Hamas. The United States Department of the Treasury has announced new sanctions targeting 21 Iranians, foreign nationals, and firms accused of involvement in an illicit financial network for the benefit of the Iranian military….

Hurt, scared but free now. Palestinian boy recalls abuse in Israeli prison | Israel-Palestine conflict

Hurt, scared but free now. Palestinian boy recalls abuse in Israeli prison | Israel-Palestine conflict

Hebron, occupied West Bank – After eight months in Israeli prisons without being charged or processed, 18-year-old Mohammad Salhab Tamimi was finally able to return to his family as part of an ongoing prisoner exchange deal. His boyish face was serious as he embraced his parents and stood, slightly bewildered, as…

Why are so many Palestinian women being killed in Israel’s war on Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Why are so many Palestinian women being killed in Israel’s war on Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict

The United Nations says women and children make up 70 percent of the dead. The United Nations says Palestinian women have borne the brunt of Israel’s onslaught in Gaza. Two-thirds of those killed in the war, purportedly against Hamas, are women and children. What are the difficulties that Palestinian women…

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

An investigation finds the Emirati president of the talks, who is also an oil executive, is using his role to push fossil fuel deals. The Emirati president of the United Nations climate conference in Dubai has denied reports that he has used his role at the negotiations to pursue fossil…

US says Indian gov’t official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist | Courts News

US says Indian gov’t official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist | Courts News

US federal prosecutors charge 52-year-old Indian man for alleged involvement in murder-for-hire conspiracy. Authorities in the United States have said that an Indian government official directed a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil, as they announced charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder. On…

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli women and children on their return from captivity in Gaza have spoken of being beaten and threatened, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say. Most captives released during a six-day-old truce have been rushed to hospitals in…