Children are seen in a destroyed house after Israeli attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on October 07, 2023. Mustafa Hassona | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images From being labeled “Israel’s 9/11,” to the culmination of a “50-year time bomb,” political analysts are reacting to the Israel-Hamas conflict and contemplating what happens next as the fighting … Read more
HROZA, Ukraine — U.N. and local investigators searched for answers on Saturday at the site of a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village that days earlier turned its sole cafe to rubble and killed nearly 52 people gathered for a dead soldier’s wake, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in … Read more
(Video: Derna Zoom/Facebook) October 5, 2023 at 3:00 a.m. EDT Comment on this storyComment The rains lashing Derna gave residents a sense of comfort as night fell on Sept. 10. Windows steamed up as dinners warmed on stovetops. Children curled up with their parents and watched cartoons long past their bedtimes. A 30-year-old store owner, … Read more
James Cameron’s Avatar franchise takes place in a sprawling world, full of incredibly well-thought-out fictional technology, including 10 extremely powerful weapons. Avatar has become one of the biggest, most lucrative movie franchises ever, grossing over $4.2 billion between its first two films. While the main attraction of the Avatar franchise has always been James Cameron’s … Read more
BAGHDAD — Christian religious leaders in northern Iraq called for an international investigation Monday into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s probe, which had blamed the blaze on negligence and lack of precautionary measures. An Iraqi Syriac Catholic priest, meanwhile, said widespread corruption in the … Read more
STORY: Steven Nabil is cradling a picture of his fiancé, one of over a hundred people killed in the huge fire that swept through a wedding hall in Iraq last month. He was working as a DJ there. He stepped outside for a break when the disaster happened. On Sunday, Iraq’s interior minister announced that … Read more
MALANG, Indonesia — A year has passed slowly for Devi Athok, an Indonesian man whose two teenage daughters died in a crush of fans at a soccer stadium in East Java in October 2022 after police fired tear gas, setting off a panicked run for the exits that left 135 people dead. The crowd surge … Read more
Deadly violence is continuing in Sweden, with three people killed overnight in separate incidents near Stockholm and in a city west of the capital ByThe Associated Press September 28, 2023, 4:35 AM Police stand on the scene after a man was shot dead and another person was injured in Jordbro, south of Stockholm, in the … Read more
Wedding guests were seen running for cover as flaming debris fell from the ceiling of a wedding venue in northern Iraq, after a deadly fire broke out on September 26. Nineveh Deputy Governor Hassan al-Allaq told media that 113 people had been confirmed dead. State media put the death toll at at least 100, with … Read more
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s president demanded on Tuesday that NATO-led troops stationed in Kosovo take over the security from police in the north of the country, days after violent clashes between armed Serbs and Kosovo police left one officer and three gunmen dead. A daylong shootout in northern Kosovo on Sunday further raised tensions in … Read more