ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano […]
Members of the Middle Eastern community in Dearborn, Mich., hold a candlelight vigil on the anniversary October 7 attacks in Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via AFP In July, while playing golf with my dad in Michigan, a woman called out to me after seeing “Deira” printed in Arabic text […]
The US and its allies have raised the alarm after Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that North Korea was sending thousands of soldiers to help Russia in its war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president claimed on Thursday that his government had intelligence that nearly 10,000 soldiers from North Korea were being prepared to join the Russian forces […]
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Reuters Smoke rose over Beirut’s southern suburbs after they were targeted by new Israeli air strikes on Tuesday Israel is expanding its ground invasion of Lebanon against Hezbollah, sending thousands of additional troops into a new zone in the south-west of the country. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a fourth division had joined the […]
Hundreds of residents of tiny Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon heeded the Israeli military’s warning to flee. Many sought shelter in a nearby monastery.
Israeli troops crossed the border for the first time since 2006 in a ground operation targeting Hezbollah. The Israeli military called for evacuations of more than two dozen villages in southern Lebanon.
Military officials said no decision had yet been made about whether or when to launch a major ground operation targeting Hezbollah. An Israeli airstrike killed a Hamas leader in Lebanon, extending a string of attacks against Iranian-backed militias.
