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While serving as a contractor and senior adviser for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Alex Smith had a broad mandate. He was tasked with offering insight on issues concerning gender, infectious disease, nutrition, and the health of mothers and children. And all of those issues converged in Gaza, as Israel’s siege unfolded. The […]
Russian air defence systems may have brought down an Azerbaijani airliner this week, a US official said on Friday after an Azerbaijani minister also suggested the plane was hit by a weapon, citing expert analysis and survivor accounts. Friday’s assessments by Rashan Nabiyev and White House National Security spokesman John Kirby echoed those made by […]
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, the territory’s health ministry said. The army denied claims it had entered or set fire to the complex and accused Hamas of using the […]
The Israeli military said it had struck a vehicle containing a “terrorist cell” in the Nuseirat area of Gaza. Source link
Authorities in Russia said on Thursday that a number of Ukrainian plots to kill senior Russian officers had been foiled. “The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has prevented a series of assassination attempts on high-ranking military personnel of the Defence Ministry,” the FSB said. “Four Russian citizens involved in the preparation of these […]
Moscow — An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people on board crashed Wednesday in the western Kazakhstani city of Aktau but at least 32 people survived, according to officials. More than 30 people are likely dead. Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those on board included five crew members. At least 29 people […]
One of the more surprising foreign policy ideas the Trump team has proposed on the eve of its ascension to power is military intervention in Mexico to go after drug cartels and possibly stop migrants headed to the United States. The idea seemed so wild and provocative — siccing U.S. troops on a peaceful neighbor […]
(Bloomberg) — New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago. Farms linked to the original site, which tested positive for avian influenza on Dec. 1, have been confirmed as free of the virus after testing on thousands of samples at the […]
Hong Kong is set to adopt a new rapid test that could “significantly” reduce the time needed to identify shark fin species at borders as early as next year to help tackle illegal wildlife trade and overexploitation, according to a top UN official and local authorities. Ivonne Higuero, secretary general of the Convention on International […]
MACAO, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed on Friday the long-term adherence to “one country, two systems” as Macao celebrates a quarter-century of transformative success since its return to the motherland. At a televised ceremony held in a major sports venue in Macao, Xi swore in Sam Hou Fai, a 62-year-old former […]