PARIS (AP) — President Macron says France and its allies "could have stopped" the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.”
Activist claims she was threatened with release of the footage in order to silence her, amid multiple reports of sexual violence inflicted upon imprisoned Afghan women
Palestinian detainees recount time in Israel’s prison service and react to their release by Israeli authorities. CNN’s Nada Bashir reports.
STORY: :: Israeli police clash with Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank as they dismantle an illegal outpost:: July 3, 2024:: Oz Zion, IsraelThe video showed police excavators destroying makeshift structures at the outpost. Settlers sat down across a small road to block access for the police, but officers dragged them out of the way, the video showed. There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities about the operation, which took place at a place called Oz Zion.Israel is under international pressure to curb settlement expansion in the West Bank, which Palestinians want as the core of a future independent state alongside Gaza.The outpost, in a rural area, is illegal under Israeli and international law. Israeli police have in the past taken steps against some illegal settlement activity in the West Bank, but Palestinian groups say in many cases the police don't enforce the law, especially since the start of the war in Gaza.
Peace demonstrators gathered in Cathedral Square next to the Queen Victoria statue on Sunday afternoon for an impromptu protest.
Israel sees Hezbollah as its most direct threat and estimates that it has an arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles.
Hezbollah said it fired more than 100 rockets at Israeli positions on Wednesday in retaliation for a strike that killed a senior commander in Lebanon, the movement's second such loss in recent weeks.Hezbollah said that "as part of the response" to Nasser's killing, its fighters attacked two positions in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights "with 100 Katyusha rockets".
Clashes on the southern Lebanese border have raised the possibility of a direct conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli military.
The Lebanese Hezbollah group said it launched over 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders. The Israeli military said "numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets" had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. It said about 200 “projectiles” were launched toward the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and over 20 drones into Israeli territory, but that it had intercepted some of them.
Israel has confirmed it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike in south Lebanon, the second such assassination in recent weeks.
The Hamas militant group said Wednesday it had sent new "ideas" to Qatari mediators aimed at ending the nearly nine-month Gaza war with Israel.Qatar-based Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh "made contact with the mediator brothers in Qatar and Egypt about the ideas that the movement is discussing with them with the aim of reaching an agreement", the group said in a statement.
Mohammad Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a pressure cooker bomb in the early hours of January 20 last year
Hezbollah said that it fired more than 200 missiles at Israeli military sites in retaliation for the killing of one of its senior commanders in southern Lebanon.
A judge at Lebanon's military court on Tuesday charged the gunman who opened fire at the U.S. embassy near Beirut with being affiliated to the militant Islamic State group, security and judicial officials said. Lebanese soldiers shot and arrested the gunman in early June, later identified as Kaiss Farraj from Syria, after a shootout that lasted almost 30 minutes and injured an embassy security guard. The Islamic State group has not claimed responsibility for the attack, nor has any other group.
Israel has said it is "evaluating" new comments put forward by Palestinian group Hamas aimed at bringing about a long-awaited ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas militant group said Wednesday it has sent new "ideas" to Qatari mediators aimed at ending the nearly nine-month Gaza war with Israel.Israel confirmed that it was "evaluating" Hamas "comments" on a deal to free its hostages in the Palestinian territory and would reply.With the death toll mounting and conditions worsening daily for Gaz
The Israeli leader has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after a New York Times article cited current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a potential land war with Hezbollah.
Twelve U.S. government employees who resigned in protest of President Biden’s handling of Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip are accusing the administration of prioritizing politics over “fair policymaking,” and offering recommendations to change course. The dozen signatories on a joint statement represent a wide spectrum of government staff, including former employees of…
President Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet in Washington, DC, in several weeks when the Israeli prime minister visits to address Congress on July 24, a source familiar tells CNN.
Ukraine’s troops have retreated from a district of the crumbling, but strategic eastern city of Chasiv Yar, a day after a day after Russia claimed its troops had captured ground.
Lebanon's Hezbollah launched a barrage of more than 200 rockets and drones at Israeli army positions on Thursday as tensions soared amid the almost nine-month-old war raging in Gaza. The Israeli military confirmed Hezbollah claims that over 200 rockets were launched on Thursday and said that its forces were "striking launch posts in southern Lebanon" in response.
A former senator in Pakistan was killed Wednesday when a vehicle carrying him and supporters struck a roadside bomb in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border, police said. The attack occurred in Bajur, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bakhat Bunar, a local police chief. President Asif Ali Zardari and other officials denounced the bombing.
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