RAMALLAH, West Bank — The United States agrees with Israel that the fight against Hamas will take months, but officials are discussing the timetable for scaling back from high-intensity combat to more precise ways of targeting the militant group’s leaders, a top U.S. envoy said Friday amid growing American unease about the mounting death toll … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The United States, attempting to contain the spread of Israel’s war in Gaza, is pitching allies on expanding a multinational naval task force to address an alarming rise in attacks on commercial vessels traveling near Yemen that have posed a significant threat to global shipping. The White … Read more
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s military on Monday said a U.S. combat ship illegally entered waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed South China Sea atoll. “The U.S. seriously undermined regional peace and stability,” said a spokesperson for China’s Southern Theater of Operations in a statement. The spokesperson also said the U.S. deliberately disrupted the … Read more
Hamas is expected to release its sixth batch of hostages Wednesday as part of an extended pause in fighting with Israel. Since the pause began last week, 180 Palestinians, 61 Israelis and 20 foreign nationals have been released, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It it set to expire Thursday, … Read more
Israel’s new Eitan APC has performed its first combat missions in Gaza battling Hamas, IDF said. The Eitan carries 12 soldiers, including three crew, and uses Israel’s latest defense technology. The new aromored vehicle was not due to go into operational service until next year, said a report. Israel has rushed its new hi-tech APC … Read more
Daylight saving time is over, and that means more driving at night. The fact that we lose an hour of daylight in fall may sound insignificant, but the end of daylight saving time results in a 16% increase in collisions with deer, according to a 2022 study. An increase in fatal car crashes following the end … Read more
The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), today announced the launch of a new program, Lantern, designed to enable social media platforms to share “signals” about activity and accounts that might violate their policies against CSEA. Participating platforms in Lantern — … Read more
Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect has a new feature that conducts a real-time analysis of an Android app’s code and blocks it from installing the app if it’s considered potentially harmful. Google announced in October the new real-time app scanning feature built into Google Play Protect that the company says can help catch … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli military strikes killed multiple civilians Saturday at a U.N. shelter and hospital in the main combat zone in the Gaza Strip as the assault intensified on the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers, amid growing international uproar over the soaring death toll and deepening humanitarian crisis. Israel’s military said it had encircled … Read more
Russia moved its trained dolphin force to a different part of the Black Sea, Naval News reported. Dolphin pens appeared in Novoozerne, which is 56 miles northwest of where they were first spotted. It comes at a time when Ukraine is ramping up attacks on Russian naval assests in the Black Sea. Russia has moved … Read more