Ten Nobel Prize winners are among a slate of 23 of the most highly-regarded economists in the US and Europe who penned a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to rescind his plans to militarily occupy Gaza City, and urging him…
Thousands of men gathered across Kabul on Friday to watch flowers being scattered from helicopters to mark the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power – a celebration that women were barred from attending. Three of the six “flower…
Mediators informed Israel in the past day that Hamas has softened its stance and is now ready to enter negotiations on a partial hostage deal. Following this shift, Egypt and Qatar have proposed resuming proximity talks between Israel and Hamas,…
Ukraine says it has conducted a long-range drone attack on a supply ship that it claims was carrying drone components from Iran, striking it at a port north of the Caspian Sea, in a show of force hours before Donald…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts…
In Plaza Murillo, the heart of Bolivia’s political capital, La Paz – and home to the presidential palace, parliament and the country’s main Catholic cathedral – time may be running out for a clock that runs backwards. Installed atop of…
For Zein Rimawi, a 71-year-old Palestinian New Yorker and Arab American community leader in Brooklyn, mornings are the hardest. That’s when he says he has time to scroll through social media on his computer and see the latest images and…
MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s far-right finance minister said Thursday that a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead — a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The security firm of former U.S. Navy Seal Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 personnel from various countries to Haiti as part of a one-year deal to quell gang violence there, a person…
Donald Trump cold-called Norway’s finance minister last month to ask about a nomination for the Nobel peace prize, Norwegian press reported on Thursday. The Norwegian outlet Dagens Næringsliv, citing unnamed sources, reported: “Out of the blue, while finance minister Jens…