'How much worse could it get?' Gazans fear full occupation
"When will this nightmare end?" wonders Amal Hamada, a 20-year-old displaced woman who, like most Gazans, feels powerless before the threat of full Israeli occupation a...
Lebanon cabinet meets again on Hezbollah disarmament
Lebanon's cabinet convened again on Thursday to discuss the thorny task of disarming Hezbollah, a day after the Iran-backed group rejected the government's decision to...
Microsoft cloud used in Israeli mass surveillance of Palestinians: Report
Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit stored vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft’s cloud servers, according to a joint investigation by Th...
Zambia denies health risks flagged by US embassy over acid spill
LUSAKA (Reuters) -Zambia denied on Thursday that an acid spill in its copper-mining region six months ago still posed a serious health risk, a day after the U.S. embass...
Light aircraft crashes in Kenya's capital, Star newspaper reports
NAIROBI (Reuters) -A light aircraft crashed in Nairobi's densely populated Githurai neighbourhood on Thursday, Kenya's Star newspaper reported. It gave no details of an...
Deadly Indian Himalayan flood likely caused by glacier collapse, experts say
A deadly wall of muddy water that swept away an Indian Himalayan town this week was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier exacerbated by the rising effects of clim...
Prosecutors in Thailand issue indictments for dozens in deadly building collapse
BANGKOK (AP) — State prosecutors in Thailand have formally indicted 23 individuals and companies on charges related to the collapse of a Bangkok office building that co...
Netanyahu’s security cabinet to meet on Gaza war, as some in Israel call to resettle enclave
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to convene his high-level security cabinet on Thursday to discuss expanding the war against Hamas, including the potent...
ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: 'Silent genocide'
International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of t...
The Paris office of Israeli airline El Al is vandalized with graffiti
PARIS (AP) — Israeli airline El Al said Thursday that its Paris office was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti, calling the act a “deeply disturbing” incident as tensi...