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pawel.gaul/Getty Images Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. Here’s how the […]

Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry A sanctuary in Indonesia is celebrating the birth of a Sumatran rhino, the most threatened species of rhinoceros in the world. The healthy male calf was born on Saturday at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park in the Lampung province, the Indonesian government announced Sunday. The […]

ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — In a secret location in Northern Ukraine sits one of the country’s biggest training centers for mobile air defense units. In the large open-air area, soldiers train to shoot drones with machine and anti-aircraft guns mounted on pick-up trucks. Some of those weapons are at least two times older than […]

@gilbert_sabinga/Save the Elephants (LONDON) — An elephant in Kenya has given birth to a rare set of twins, conservation group Save the Elephants has announced. The two baby elephant calves – both female – were born to a mother elephant named Alto in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. “Yet another set of twins have been born […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. […]

Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — On a surprise trip to the Ukrainian capital, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tried to rally support for Ukraine and even suggested Ukrainian forces would be “even more aggressive” in their fight against invading Russian forces throughout this winter. Austin’s buoyant prediction about the next phase of […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. […]

Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hudner shot down several attack drones over the Red Sea that were launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen early Thursday morning local time, according to U.S. Central Command. “The ship and crew sustained no damage or injury,” a statement from the command read. Just […]

Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Two United States-based researchers analyzing the destruction of northern Gaza using radar waves and satellite imagery from space have compared the widespread damage to the decimated cities of Mariupol in Ukraine and Aleppo in Syria during wartime. Following Hamas’ unprecedented surprise attack in Israel on Oct. […]