Germany’s Social Democrats Hold Back Far Right In State Vote, A Victory For Scholz
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Sunday, gaining a narrow edge over a growing far-right party, according to the vote count. The vote took place three weeks after the...
Israeli Forces Raid Al Jazeera’s West Bank Bureau In Latest Attack On The Press
Israeli troops raided Al Jazeera’s offices in the occupied West Bank early Sunday, the government’s latest attack on press freedom and specifically the Qatar-based news network, which has long reported on the Israeli military’s actions and intensely covered the past year’s campaigns in occupied Palestinian...
World Leaders Gather In New York For An Expectedly Gloomy U.N. General Assembly
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on front-burner issues but on modernizing the international institutions born after World War II so...
Hezbollah Hits Back With Rockets As It Declares ‘Open-Ended Battle’ With Israel
NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon. A Hezbollah leader declared an “open-ended battle” was underway as both sides appeared to be...
Hezbollah Hits Back With More Than 100 Rockets Across A Wider And Deeper Area Of Israel
NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon. A Hezbollah leader declared an “open-ended battle” was underway as both sides appeared to be...
An Israeli Strike On A School Kills At Least 22 People, Gaza Health Ministry Says
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a...
Israeli Strike On School Kills At Least 22 People: Gaza Health Ministry
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a...
Hezbollah Confirms Death Of Top Military Official In Israeli Airstrike
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in decades, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 14 people killed and...
Israel Says Its Strike On Beirut Killed Top Hezbollah Military Official
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in decades, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 14 people killed and...
Israel And Hezbollah Exchange Strikes In Wake Of Device Explosions
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, and said Israelis displaced from homes near the Lebanon border because of the fighting would not be able to...
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