The US reiterated its calls for the protection of innocent human life on Sunday as Israel carried on expanding its military operations in Gaza. According to a separate analysis, Israel’s mission of destroying Hamas could prove almost impossible.
Following extensive discussions with Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the two have agreed to develop a plan for delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. As for the UN, it reports that most Palestinians in Gaza lack access to water, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Iran and Hezbollah not to get involved.
The US has reiterated its call that innocent civilians fleeing the Israel-Hamas conflict be given basic necessities and protection. A US senator has also strongly warned Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah over concerns of a wider regional conflict.
On Friday, some Haitians in New York protested against the UN Security Council’s approval of a resolution to send an international police force led by Kenya to Haiti. The police force is expected to be sent to the Caribbean country with mandates to aid in fighting against ongoing gang violence
Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from September 29 to October 1, for the fourth World Culture Festival. The festival was first held in Bangalore in 2006, and it continued in Berlin in 2011 and Delhi in 2016. More than 3 million people showed up to that event.
By the end of 2024, Somali forces are expected to take over security duties,in anticipation, the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia has started to gradually withdraw the country.
One of the bloodiest land battles in the Pacific Ocean took place in 1945 when American forces attacked the Japanese island of Okinawa. A man who has spent decades looking for the bodies of those who were killed fears that Okinawa is again vulnerable as tensions rise between China and the United States.
IRANIn our society, older adults live longer and do more in their latter years. Many politicians are holding onto their positions well past the normal retirement age. VOA’s Senior Washington Correspondent Carolyn Presutti explores the ages of current world leaders in the context with the fact that the United States is facing two of the country’s oldest front-runners for president.
Despite US efforts to curb migration, migrants continue to reach Mexico’s northern border. However, it’s not just people of countries in Central and South America.
This week, Japan commemorates the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, which killed hundreds of civilians and ended World War II, the postwar constitution of Japan limited its military forces and renounced war as a right of the nation.