(REYKJAVIK, Iceland) -- There remains a "significant likelihood" of a volcanic eruption in the coming days in southwestern Iceland, the country's meteorological office said, as hundreds of earthquakes continue to shake the region. About 800 earthquakes have been measured so far on Wednesday, with the main seismic activity in the area…
(HONG KONG) -- The view from China on Wednesday's meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden is somewhat upbeat, despite signs that the bar for success is low and the meeting is broadly seen as only another chance to install "guard rails" to prevent relations from sliding even…
(WASHINGTON) -- The White House said on Tuesday the U.S. has intelligence that shows Hamas has used hospitals in Gaza, including the Al-Shifa Hospital, "to conceal and to support their military operations and to hold hostages." National Security Council spokesman John Kirby made the announcement on Air Force One while traveling…
(MEXICO CITY) -- Thousands of angry, mournful protesters gathered in Mexico's capital on Monday night demanding justice for and challenging the preliminary investigation into the death of perhaps the country's most famous openly nonbinary person. Jesús Ociel Baena was the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial position in…
(NEW YORK) -- Some hospitals in Gaza are in a "dire and perilous" situation, the World Health Organization says, and two -- the Al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals -- have been forced to stop operations amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Dr. Tedros…
(NEW YORK) -- A Texas man who is currently on trial in Russia over child abuse allegations plans to take the stand in his own defense. David Barnes, who has been detained in Moscow for nearly two years, is expected to testify in front of the judge who will decide…
(LONDON, TEL AVIV, Israel and BELGRADE, Serbia) -- Doctors are pleading for help after Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa in Gaza City, collapsed and ceased functioning as a hospital over the weekend when its power failed and an explosion happened in its courtyard, where thousands of people had been sheltering amid…
(MONTREAL) -- A Jewish school in Montreal was shot at Sunday, the second time in under a week the school has been targeted with gunfire, according to police. The facade of the school in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood sustained damage but was empty at the time of Sunday’s shooting, and no…
(LONDON) -- As thousands of earthquakes rumbled Iceland's southwestern coast over the weekend, local weather officials warned of a "significant likelihood" of a volcanic eruption in the coming days. More than 2,000 earthquakes were recorded in about 48 hours, including about 1,000 in a 12-hour period on Sunday, the Icelandic…
(NEW YORK) -- American aircraft on Sunday struck a weapons storage facility and a command-and-control center used by Iran-linked militants in Syria in the latest round of retaliatory strikes amid continued attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East, officials said. "Within the last two hours, the U.S. has taken…
