Thu, January 16, 2025 Qatar and the United States announced Wednesday a ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, adding that they hoped it would pave the way for a permanent end to the war in Gaza. After mediators said a deal had been reached, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said […]
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Monday | January 13, 2025 Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying the names should be changed back. In a variety of media appearances between 2021 and 2024 that CNN analyzed, Hegseth, a veteran of
Thu December 26, 2024 This time last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the doldrums. According to political analyst Nadav Shtrauchler, who has collaborated extensively with Netanyahu, “he started very low.” “The lowest point in his life.” On October 7, the bloodiest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, he was accused by many
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Monday, November 25, 2024 China has 3.7 million square miles of land to explore. But more and more young Chinese travelers are opting to see their country from the sky. Tianti, or “Sky Ladder” in Chinese, is the most recent of these striking constructions. According to Chinese state media, it is 551 feet (168 meters)
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Hong Kong/Taipei | Mon October 14, 2024 Taiwan has condemned the latest round of Chinese military drills around the self-governing island as an “unreasonable provocation” after Beijing deployed warships and fighter jets in what it described as a “stern warning” to “separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces.”The exercises, which involve joint operations of the army,
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Tokyo | Sat June 8, 2024 Yu felt a rush of excitement as she walked into his bar for the first time – eager to meet the charming young host she’d been following for years online. They had a conversation over champagne on that chilly January night of last year, which was the first of
Qatar, Doha | Tue May 14, 2024 Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder and she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen. “Whatever happens to me, happens to him,” she says
Sun April 28, 2024 Buying a home is frequently one of the most difficult life decisions to make, involving extensive consideration on site before weeks of research for the ideal property. Locating a place in a foreign nation involves even more tough choices. In that scenario, you arrive in Italy for the first time and,
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Bangladesh Fri, March 29, 2024 After being expelled from prior prayer sessions, the transgender hijra community in Bangladesh was welcomed into a new mosque with the assurance that they would be able to worship without facing any discrimination. The modest building, a one-room hut with walls and a tin roof, serves as the minority’s new
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Jakarta Tue, January 9, 2024 Retno LP Marsudi, the foreign minister, purposefully held her yearly press conference on Monday at the Merdeka Building in Bandung, West Java, the site of Indonesia’s hosting of the Asia-Africa conference in 1955. The nine-year-old ministry’s accomplishments in carrying out the constitutional mandate of “free and active” foreign policy were