BY JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. Shifa is Gaza’s largest and best–equipped hospital. Israel, without providing visual evidence, claims the facility also is used by Hamas for military purposes.
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, JACK JEFFERY, AND LEE KEATH KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian authorities on Tuesday called for a cease–fire to evacuate three dozen newborns and other patients trapped inside Gaza’s biggest hospital as Israeli forces battle Hamas in the streets just outside and seize more
BY MEG KINNARD Tim Scott has dropped out of the race for the Republican primary nomination. The South Carolina senator was well–funded but struggled to gain traction in national or early–state polls. He told Fox News late Sunday that he would not endorse another GOP candidate. Here’s a
Nitrous oxide, once used in clinical practice, is now a recreational drug of choice for an increasing number of Nigerian youths. Lagos, Nigeria — One evening in July 2020, Seun [last name withheld], wearing his favourite vintage shirt, a baseball cap and sneakers, boarded a minibus from his
BY NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday ordered the removal of the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. A
By WAFAA SHURAFA AND BASSEM MROUE DEIR AL–BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back Saturday against growing international calls for a cease–fire, saying Israel’s battle to crush Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants will continue with “full force.” A cease–fire would be possible only if all
BY LAURAN NEERGAARD NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant — although it’s far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his new left eye. An accident with
BY SAM MEDNICK ATACORA, Benin (AP) — The insurgents pressured Zackari to join their movement, and he turned them down. Now he’s frightened of their revenge. He has been on the run from the jihadi fighters for more than a year. They regularly call the 33–year–old, warning: “We
BY JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t elaborate when he said this week that Israel would maintain indefinite “overall security responsibility” in Gaza once it removes Hamas from power in response to a deadly Oct. 7 cross–border raid by the Islamic militant group. Experience
BY JILL COLVIN, MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ AND ERIC TUCKER NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Donald Trump sparred with a New York judge and slammed the state attorney general suing him Monday, using the witness stand at his civil fraud trial to defend his riches and
BY WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY AND KAREEM CHEHAYEB BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — What was once Gaza’s busiest thoroughfare has become a terrifying escape route for Palestinian civilians fleeing combat on foot or on donkey carts. On their way south, those running for their lives said
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, JACK JEFFERY AND LEE KEATH KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza’s largest city and an even
By ABIA ONYIKE, Editor The People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in Ebonyi State has accused Sen. Obinna Ogba of political prostitution and acting as a willing tool for the destruction of the political profession in Nigeria. In a Press Statement issued on Sunday in Abakaliki, the Chairman of PDP in
BY MATTHEW LEE AND ERIC TUCKER TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against
BY MATTHEW LEE AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Arab leaders decrying the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Israel–Hamas war pushed for an immediate cease–fire Saturday even as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that such a move would be counterproductive and could encourage more violence
BY ELLIOT SPAGAT AND DIDI TANG SAN DIEGO (AP) — The young Chinese man looked lost and exhausted when Border Patrol agents left him at a transit station. Deng Guangsen, 28, had spent the last two months traveling to San Diego from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong,
