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A view damaged floating pier, set up by US to facilitate quicker delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians, after it has been suspended due to adverse weather conditions and rising sea levels in Gaza City, Gaza on May 27, 2024. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military is planning […]

ABC (NEW YORK) — As the secretive Israeli rescue operation began at 11 a.m. on Saturday in Gaza, hostage Andrey Kozlov first heard the gunfire and wondered whether he was in mortal danger, his girlfriend, Jennifer Master, told ABC News. As intense gunfire rang out, the first Israeli commandos Kozlov saw were dressed like women, […]

Getty Images – STOCK (GREECE) — A sweltering heat wave in Greece, recorded as the season’s earliest-ever, has prompted authorities to close public schools, limit outdoor attractions and release safety alerts. Primary schools and kindergartens closed Wednesday and Thursday in areas of Greece where temperatures sustained heat wave levels and soared well over 100 degrees […]

Getty Images – STOCK (GREECE) — A search and rescue operation is underway for a 59-year-old American who was reported missing Tuesday after failing to return from a hike on a Greek island. Albert Calibet, a former LA Sheriff’s Department deputy, failed to return from a hike on the Greek island Amorgos amid extreme heat, […]

Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images (FASANO, Italy) — G7 leaders on Thursday agreed to lend Ukraine $50 billion this year — backed by profits from frozen Russian assets — to help the country’s war effort and rebuilding. This plan has been years in the making. It’s a win for President Joe Biden, who has been […]

Newborn elephant twins, a female (R) and a male (L), stand next to their mother Jamjuree at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal in Ayutthaya on June 10, 2024. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — An Asian elephant in Thailand has given birth to a rare set of elephant twins, non-profit conservation group […]

Getty Images – STOCK (ITALY) — It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Italian city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient archaeological site continues to offer new findings. An ornate “blue room,” distinguished by depictions of female figures on the cerulean-painted walls, was newly excavated by archeologists, […]

Getty Images – STOCK (RUSSIA) — The Pentagon is downplaying Wednesday’s arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba as U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. Navy ships “actively monitored” the Russian ships as they made their way to a port of call in Havana. At the on-camera Pentagon press briefing, spokesperson Sabrina Singh downplayed the […]

Natalia Kushnir/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine on Tuesday launched its Unmanned Systems Forces, a new branch of its military focused on drone warfare that officials said was the first of its kind. “Ukraine is the only country in the world that has created the Unmanned Systems Forces, and this gives hope for the creation […]

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Four instructors from Cornell College in Iowa were stabbed in a “serious incident” while overseas in China, university and Chinese officials said. The incident took place in a public park in Jilin City, China, on Sunday, according to the statement. A Chinese official said on Tuesday that the instructors […]