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U.S. Coast Guard (NEW YORK) — The United States Coast Guard rescued 33 people from a sinking vessel in deep water when their boat began taking on water and sinking. The incident occurred on Monday when Coast Guard District Seven watchstanders received notification from the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dependable after they encountered a […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Iranian-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded more than two dozen others in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday, U.S. officials said, with President Joe Biden warning that the strike would be met with American retaliation. The deaths were the first in the line of fire for U.S. troops […]

A man holds the body of a small child as he and others mourn while collecting the bodies of friends and relatives killed in an airstrike on January 13, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — A South Korean ruling party lawmaker, Bae Hyun-jin, has been rushed to the hospital after an attack in Seoul’s posh Gangnam district Thursday afternoon. Bae, a member of the People Power Party and a former TV journalist, was hit with a palm-sized rock on the back of her head, […]

Iran International (LONDON) — Dozens of Iranian women political prisoners went on a hunger strike Thursday in protest of the execution of Iranian protester Mohammad Ghobadlou. The announcement of the hunger strike was made on the Instagram account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who is among the 61 women on strike at the […]

Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images (NAIROBI, Kenya) — Thousands of people across Kenya took to the streets Saturday in nationwide protests calling for an end to femicide in the East African nation. The protests — which have taken place in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as well as in the major cities of Mombasa, Kisumu, Nyeri and Nakuru […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For the last seven years, Rohingya Muslims in southeast Asia have been facing a never-ending nightmare that they say follows them to every place they’ve fled. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar, where they were targeted in the country’s genocide of Muslims. The refugees said that, despite making the […]

A cameraman takes footage of the painting ‘Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser’ (Portrait of Miss Lieser) by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) during a press conference of the Kinsky Art Auction House in Vienna, Austria on January 25, 2024. (Photo by ROLAND SCHLAGER/APA/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — One of the last paintings done by […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The State Department is temporarily pausing new funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East while reviewing allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. Secretary of State Antony […]

A man holds the body of a small child as he and others mourn while collecting the bodies of friends and relatives killed in an airstrike on January 13, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli […]