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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (not pictured) following a meeting between the U.S. top diplomat and Arab envoys, in Cairo on March, 21, 2024. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — As U.S. and Israeli officials publicly sound off over a potential […]

Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL-AVIV, Israel) — Displaced Gazans at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza were reportedly being told to evacuate immediately Thursday, as Israel’s raid on the hospital continues into a fourth day amid the ongoing war with Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation at Al-Shifa on Monday, claiming […]

Police officers stand guard outside the London Clinic after the UK’s Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton underwent planned surgery in London, United Kingdom on January 18, 2024. Princess of Wales will stay two weeks in hospital after undergoing successful abdominal surgery. (Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The investigation at the London hospital […]

Palestinians receive food rations at a donation point at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 2, 2024, as fighting continues between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A United Nations official in Gaza said the Monday report of famine-imminent […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Humanitarian organizations are sounding alarm over the crisis in Sudan, warning the conflict has created “one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory.” Speaking at a briefing to the security council on the humanitarian situation in Sudan, Edem Wosornu, director of Operations and Advocacy at the United Nations Office for […]

A woman and her daughter sit at a nutritional stabilization center in Gaza in March, in a photo supplied by MedGlobal. (MedGlobal) (UNITED NATIONS) — At the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, four doctors from the U.S., U.K. and France who have spent decades working on the frontlines, warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for “an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Saudi news outlet Al Hadath on Wednesday. “Well, in fact, we actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s […]

Diplomatic Security Services/X (WASHINGTON) — As a gang-led rebellion continues to surge through Haiti, the U.S. on Wednesday orchestrated two helicopter airlifts from Port-au-Prince — evacuating more than 30 stranded Americans to the Dominican Republic, according to the State Department. After officials spent days weighing escape routes for citizens trapped in the perilous capital city, […]

Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images (CARTAGENA, Colombia) — Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, the estimated $17 billion shipwreck is set to be recovered as soon as April, according to officials. “For the first time in history, a model of comprehensive […]

MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A private U.S. advisory firm of former senior American military, CIA and humanitarian officials is proposing to operate the anticipated daily deployment of international aid ships from Cyprus to the Gaza coast, in a plan that would increase the American presence in the volatile region. The proposal, […]