Feb 10 PHOTOS: Year of the Dragon celebrated across Asia on Lunar New Year By Associated Press People across Asia welcomed the Lunar New Year on Saturday with family gatherings, festivals and temple visits to ask for blessings. Continue reading
Feb 10 Israeli drone attack kills 2 in Lebanon, one of the deepest hits inside the country in weeks By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press An Israeli drone strike hit a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said. Continue reading
Feb 10 Hungary’s president resigns after pardoning man convicted in child sexual abuse case By Justin Spike, Associated Press Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Continue reading
Feb 10 Israeli airstrikes in Rafah kill 44 Palestinians as ground invasion of southern city looms By Najib Jobain, Associated Press A hospital official says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 44 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, hours after Israel's prime minister said he had asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of… Continue reading
Feb 10 Five main takeaways from Pakistan’s parliamentary election By Riazat Butt, Associated Press Pakistan's parliamentary election last Thursday was overshadowed by violence, an unprecedented national shutdown of all mobile phone services and allegations of vote rigging. Here are the five things to know. Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 5:08 Netanyahu orders Israeli military to plan for evacuation of Rafah ahead of ground assault By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn, Ethan Dodd Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to develop plans to evacuate Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza. Its population before Oct. 7 was 100,000. Now, more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled to the… Continue watching
Feb 09 Farmers in Italy, Spain and Poland protest over European Union policies By Ciarán Giles, Monika Scislowska, Associated Press The actions follow similar ones in other EU member nations in recent weeks with farmers complaining that the 27-nation bloc's environmental and other policies are a financial burden and make their products more expensive than non-EU imports. Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 6:27 Father of Palestinian American teen killed in West Bank discusses son’s death By Amna Nawaz, Sonia Kopelev The New Orleans community is mourning the loss of a 17-year-old Palestinian American killed last month. Tawfic Abdel Jabbar is one of the 94 children, and 370 Palestinians total, killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7. In late January,… Continue watching
Feb 09 WATCH: Biden hosts German Chancellor Scholz at White House to discuss stalled Ukraine aid By Aamer Madhani, Seung Min Kim, Geir Moulson, Associated Press President Joe Biden says the Republican holdup on sending new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia was "close to criminal neglect. Continue reading
Feb 09 ‘I’ll die in my tent:’ Israel’s next target in Gaza war is likely Rafah as despair spreads through population By Najib Jobain, Lee Keath, Associated Press The estimated 1.5 million people sheltering there account for more than half of Gaza's entire population, and they have nowhere to flee in the face of an offensive that has leveled large swaths of Gaza. Continue reading