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Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti's capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and...
Netanyahu: Israel ‘one step away’ from winning war with Hamas
Six months into Israel’s war with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Sunday that it is near victory as the country pulled troops out of southern Gaza while maintaining a “significant force” elsewhere in Gaza. "We are one step...
UN: Haiti Gangs Kill 1,500 in Three Months
Gang violence has killed more than 1,500 people in Haiti so far this year, the United Nations said Thursday, as it deplored the continuing stream of weapons pouring into the Caribbean Island nation. The U.N. described the situation in the...
Chinese Pastor Released After 7 Years in Prison, Unable to Get ID
BEIJING — Unable to buy a train ticket, or even see a doctor at a hospital, a Chinese pastor found that his even after release from prison, he is not quite free. The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison while...
Hunger Rampant in Gaza as Israel, Hamas Fighting Intensifies
Fighting intensified between Hamas and Israel on Thursday as a U.N.-backed body warned that the entire population of Gaza – more than 2 million people – is at crisis levels or worse of hunger and the potential for famine is on the horizon. Heavy...
Violence Escalates Between Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — Violence escalated at Lebanon's border with Israel on Sunday as Hezbollah launched explosive drones and powerful missiles at Israeli positions and Israeli airstrikes rocked several towns and villages in south Lebanon. Israel and...
Israel, Hamas Engage in Fierce Battles in Gaza’s Biggest Cities
Israeli forces shot and killed six Palestinians on Friday in a refugee camp, near the town of Tubas on the occupied West Bank as the Israel-Hamas war in the southern Gaza Strip entered its third month. Also Friday, Israel’s military responded to an...
Fighting Between Hamas and Israel Resumes in Gaza
Fighting between Hamas and Israel has resumed in Gaza after a seven-day cessation that facilitated the exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and the flow of humanitarian aid in the devastated enclave. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says...
Israel, Hamas Agree to Extend Truce for Two More Days
Israel and Hamas reached an agreement Monday to extend their cease-fire in Gaza for two more days, with the militants releasing more hostages and the Jewish state freeing more Palestinian prisoners, the Qatari government announced. The extension of...
Release of Hostages, Prisoners Begins Under Israel-Hamas Truce
JERUSALEM / WASHINGTON — As a truce took effect between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, President Joe Biden on Friday took partial credit for the negotiated release of hostages by Hamas and the freeing of prisoners by Israel, saying it was the “result of...