(TEL AVIV) -- President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, according to the White House.Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the call, the White House said.It marked the first phone call between the two leaders in months, and since fighting has intensified in the Middle…
(SEOUL) -- A North Korean defector living in South Korea is under arrest for allegedly stealing a bus and attempting to drive it across the border into North Korea last week, police said.The man, who is in his 30s, escaped North Korea and settled in 2011 in Seoul, according to…
The late Lisa Marie Presley's posthumously released memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, reveals that Michael Jackson told her he was a virgin when they started dating. According to People, Presley says in the book that she was still married to first husband Danny Keough when Jackson professed his love to her.“Michael said, ‘I don’t know if you’ve…
(LONDON) -- A museum in the Netherlands has recovered an artwork that resembles two empty beer cans from the trash after an elevator technician accidentally disposed of them during his shift, officials said.The artwork, “All The Good Times We Spent Together” by Alexandre Lavet, was made in 1988 and initially…
(NEW DELHI) -- An American climber along with her British climbing partner have been rescued at an altitude of more than 20,000 feet after becoming stranded in the Himalayas for three days.American Michelle Dvorak and her British climbing partner, Fay Manners, were trying to climb Chaukhamba Mountain in northern India…
(LONDON) -- Hezbollah launched more than 100 projectiles into Israel on Tuesday morning as the Israel Defense Forces continued its intense air and ground campaign in Lebanon.The latest exchanges of fire came one day after Israel marked the anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 assault and as Israeli leaders planned their…
(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- For Israeli husband-and-wife Noam Tibon and Gali Mir-Tibon, Oct. 7, 2023, began like any other day.They went for an early-morning swim off the Tel Aviv coast on that Saturday morning. They heard sirens but continued to swim -- it was safer in the water. When they…
(LONDON) -- Smoke and question marks still hang over the devastated Gaza Strip a year after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack touched off a regional firestorm.The fighting in Gaza continues, though the epicenter of the broader conflict has now shifted north to the Israel-Lebanon border where Hezbollah is maintaining the Iran-led…
(BEIRUT) -- Nearly one quarter of the Lebanese population has been displaced by Israel's military campaign there, the country's caretaker prime minister said.Najib Mikati said 1.2 million people -- out of Lebanon's total 2022 population of 5.49 million, according to United Nations data -- have been forced from their homes…
(LONDON) -- After nearly a year of bloodshed and upheaval, the return of some 70,000 displaced Israeli residents from the regions along the country's border with Lebanon became one of the most politically pressing issues facing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, even as they wage a simultaneous war…
