KIBBUTZ BE’ERI, Israel — Gillian and Pete Brisley are picking up the pieces of their shattered lives. They are cleaning up the house where their daughter and granddaughters were killed by Hamas on Oct. 7 in hopes that their son-in-law — believed to be held captive in Gaza — may have something to come home … Read more
TEHRAN, Iran — A 30-year-old man gunned down 12 of his relatives Saturday in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades. Head of the justice department of the province of Kerman, Ebrahim Hamidi, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency the gunman opened fire on his father, brother and other … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave For weeks, Susan Abdelsalam has checked to see whether her husband’s name was on a list that could mean the difference between life and death. Susan and her husband, Ramadan, both 73, live a quiet retired life in a suburb of Indianapolis. In September, he traveled to … Read more
JERUSALEM — There was no trace of Hanan Yablonka — not on the 42-year-old Israeli’s social media accounts nor on his phone, found in the bullet-riddled car he and three friends tried to flee in after Hamas militants attacked the music festival they were attending in southern Israel. The friends were killed in the Oct. … Read more
BEIJING — A Beijing court began compensation hearings Monday morning for Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 on a flight to Beijing, a case that remains shrouded in mystery after almost a decade. Security was tight around the Chinese capital’s main Chaoyang District Intermediary Court and … Read more
November 22, 2023 6:20 AM EST VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met separately Wednesday with relatives of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel and begged for peace and an end to what he called terrorism and “the passions that are killing everyone.” Francis spoke about the suffering of both Israelis and Palestinians … Read more