Israeli strikes kill 12 Palestinians in Gaza as polio vaccination resumes

PHOTO CAPTION: A F-15 fighter jet flies during a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots at Hatzerim Airbase, in southern Israel, June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen     By Nidal al-Mughrabi...

Hunter Biden pleads guilty in federal tax case

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty to federal tax charges on Thursday, a surprise move that avoids a potentially embarrassing trial weeks before the U.S. presidential ele...

Ukraine asks allies to lift restrictions on long-range strikes in Russia, US announces more aid

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged military allies to ignore Moscow's "red lines" and allow Kyiv to use long-range weapons for strikes on Russian territory. Tap for the full br...

Teen suspected in Georgia school shooting, his father appear in court

The Georgia teenager charged as an adult with killing four people at his high school made his first court appearance on Friday, and his father later appeared before the same judge on charges of ena...

US calls for renewing Haiti security mission mandate

PHOTO CAPTION: Kenyan police forces patrol a neighbourhood, a day before the arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken who will visit the Caribbean country as Washington seeks to solidify t...

Canada to send Ukraine over 80,000 air-to-ground rockets

Canada plans to send 80,840 surplus small unarmed air-to-surface rockets to Ukraine as well as 1,300 warheads in the coming months, Defense Minister Bill Blair said in a statement on Friday. Tap fo...

German warships aim to secure sea lanes in Indo-Pacific, admiral says

A rare cruise by two German warships in the Indo-Pacific region will demonstrate a commitment to open navigation, the admiral in charge of the naval task force said on Friday, but he declined to co...

US citizen killed by Israeli troops while protesting settlements in West Bank, Palestinian news agency reports

PHOTO CAPTION: Illustrative photo — Israeli security personnel work near the scene of a fatal shooting attack near a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Corinna Kern   RAMALLAH, West Ban...

US Coast Guard academy students seek $130M over alleged sexual assaults

More than a dozen former U.S. Coast Guard Academy students who say they were victims of sexual assault filed complaints on Thursday seeking $130 million in damages, accusing the school of allowing ...

US charges employees of Russia's RT network in scheme to pay conservative influencers $10M

PHOTO CAPTION: Russia Today (RT) logo is seen in this illustration picture taken February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration   By Sarah N. Lynch, Andrew Goudsward and Christopher BingWASHING...

Georgia high school student, 14, kills four and wounds nine in campus shooting

A 14-year-old boy killed two fellow students and two teachers and wounded nine others in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, jolting the United States with the first mass campus shoot...

German police kill suspect in firefight near Israeli consulate in Munich

PHOTO CAPTION: Police secure the area after German police opened fire on a suspect after seeing someone who appeared to be carrying a gun near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in cen...

Hunter Biden's US tax trial to begin in Los Angeles federal court

PHOTO CAPTION: Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, walks outside the federal court as his trial on criminal gun charges continues, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 11, 2024. REUTERS/H...

Netanyahu says Israel will not leave Gaza border corridor until it is secure

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel will only agree to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that guarantees the border area between southern Gaza and Egypt could never ...

Second stage of Gaza polio campaign begins while war goes on in other areas

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centers in the south of the embattled Gaza Strip on Thursday to have their children vaccinated against polio, the start of the second stage of a campaign ...