Category: World

Nine Dead in Overnight Russia-Ukraine Barrage as Allies Head to Paris to Talk, Not Fight Russian and Ukrainian forces traded drone and missile strikes overnight into July 12, killing nine people across the two countries. Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region killed three people, including two at an industrial site in Kryvyi Rih, while a…

Israeli Panel Fast-Tracks Bill Shielding Ultra-Orthodox Draft Dodgers From Arrest Israel’s Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee approved on Sunday, July 12, a bill granting ultra-Orthodox men who refuse military service temporary immunity from arrest, with the measure formally running through November 30 but effectively lasting six months due to automatic extension provisions in Israel’s…

US and Iran Trade Fresh Strikes as Five Gulf Nations Get Dragged Into the Crossfire The United States and Iran exchanged their heaviest fire in months over the weekend after Iran attacked a commercial container ship in the Strait of Hormuz and declared the waterway closed. U.S. Central Command launched a third round of strikes…

Venezuela’s Earthquake Death Toll Passes 4,300 as Survivors Accuse Government of Politicizing Aid Venezuela’s interim government reported Saturday that the death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck near Montalbán on June 24 had risen to 4,333, an increase of 215 from Friday’s count, with 16,740 people injured. Officials said 6,462 people have been rescued…

Gunfire Kills Two at Toronto’s Largest Latin Festival as Shooters Flee Uncaught Gunfire broke out just after 8:12 p.m. Saturday at the Salsa on St. Clair festival in Toronto, a celebration of Latin culture, food and music that drew an estimated 13,000 attendees to St. Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue. Two men were killed…

US and Iran Trade Strikes as Strait of Hormuz Closes and Gulf States Come Under Fire Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to shipping early Sunday after firing what it called a warning shot at a Cyprus-flagged container ship it said was using an unauthorized route through the waterway. U.S.…

Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Spreads to New Provinces as Unpaid Health Workers Walk Off the Job The death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak reached 600 as of a government report released Thursday, with confirmed cases nationwide climbing to 1,759. New suspected cases have surfaced for the first time in the previously unaffected…

US-Iran Ceasefire Collapses as Both Sides Trade Strikes Over the Strait of Hormuz President Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire established under last month’s memorandum of understanding “over” after Iranian forces fired on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and the US military struck roughly 90 Iranian military targets in a second consecutive night of…

Nine Months Into a Ceasefire, Israel Now Controls Nearly 70% of Gaza Nine months after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hamas on October 10, Israeli forces now control nearly 70% of the Gaza Strip, well beyond the roughly 53% “yellow line” demarcation set under the original truce [1]. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Congo’s Ebola Fighters Walk Off the Job as Unpaid Strike Halts a Deadly Outbreak Response Doctors, nurses and community health workers responding to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak went on strike this week in the northeastern towns of Bunia and Rwampara, citing months of unpaid wages and inadequate protective equipment. In a letter…