Yahoo News Death toll soars to 11,300 in flooding in Libya's coastal city of Derna, Libyan Red Crescent says
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Death toll soars to 11,300 in flooding in Libya's coastal city of Derna, Libyan Red Crescent says.
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Death toll soars to 11,300 in flooding in Libya's coastal city of Derna, Libyan Red Crescent says.
SPUTNIKVladimir Putin’s backyard just got a whole lot smaller.A year and a half after the Russian president’s rash, illegal, blundering invasion of Ukraine, Russian peacekeepers have been forced to admit defeat in the faraway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, handing control back to Azerbaijan after a 24-hour military offensive, which killed a senior Russian officer.For Azerbaijan, which began talks with Karabakh’s Armenian separatist leaders on Thursday to formally take back control of the region, i
Ukrainian special services were “likely” behind a series of strikes against a Wagner-backed militia in Sudan, according to a new report.
‘If we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war,’ Congress warned
Azerbaijan’s defeat of ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh may have dealt a blow to a Kremlin critic but it will also push Yerevan towards the West.
Latest Russian losses ‘significantly higher’ than previous two days when the forces lost roughly 200 personnel each day
Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway, less than three years after a war that killed more than 6,000 people.
Israeli tanks fired on Syrian targets from the occupied Golan Heights Thursday, an AFP photographer and the military said.The AFP photographer witnessed an Israeli tank firing at least two shells.
Violence from Israeli settlers has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to a U.N. report released Thursday, with officials describing the exodus as unparalleled in recent years. The report documented about three settler-related incidents each day in the West Bank — the highest daily average since the U.N. began documenting the trend in 2006. The violence has completely emptied out five Palestinian communities.
President Joe Biden raised “hard issues,” including protecting the “checks and balances” in a democracy, in a Wednesday meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing the Israeli leader to find a compromise on a judicial overhaul that has set off months of mass protests in Israel and concerns in Washington. Biden also raised concerns about the far-right Israeli government's treatment of the Palestinians, urging Netanyahu to take steps to improve conditions in the West Bank at a time of heightened violence in the occupied territory. The two leaders sat down and took time to chat one-on-one on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
The president of Serbia on Thursday accused the West of hypocrisy, saying its recognition of Kosovo's independence was based on the same justification as Russia's war on Ukraine."They did not laugh out loud when the Russian president used the very same words justifying his attack against Ukraine," Vucic told the summit.
Azerbaijan earlier said it would not stop artillery bombardment in disputed region until Armenian forces ‘surrender’
A young Palestinian man allegedly stabbed an Israeli security guard at a Jerusalem light rail station on Thursday and was then shot and wounded by police. Police said the attacker is in serious condition while the security guard was lightly wounded. Earlier Thursday, an Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, seriously wounding him, after the man allegedly opened fire at troops.
Dubbed a ‘terrorist’ in India and a ‘prayer leader’ in Canada, Nijjar’s death is at the centre of worsening ties between two nations
War-time president says ‘humankind no longer pins its hopes on UN when it comes to defence’
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been contesting this region of the South Caucasus since before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.
Health officials on Wednesday confirmed five Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank, four of them in the Jenin refugee camp.
"Please let them not kill us, let them not kill us." "I just knew that these guys are here to kill us... that realisation was so heavy," recalled a sobbing Awat, now 33.
Rights group says at least 200 people, including 10 civilians, killed and more than 400 wounded in attack
The Israeli military said tanks struck two structures inside a demilitarized zone in Syria on Thursday, claiming the buildings violated a half-century-old cease-fire agreement between the two countries. The structures, it said, were being used by the Syrian military, amounting to what the army called a “clear violation” of the 1974 cease-fire. The Israeli army did not provide any information on what the structures were used for or when they were built.