After Israel’s bombs caused ‘almost total devastation,’ Rafah faces a daunting process to rebuild

Months of Israeli aerial bombardment have hammered the city and caused “almost total devastation,” Khaled Mohamed Al-Sheikh Eid, an engineer heading the debris removal and roads opening committee for the…

Russian airstrike on Kyiv kills at least three

Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, killing at least three people in a central district, city officials said. Explosions…

Taliban do not see women as human beings, Malala Yousafzai says

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan as “gender apartheid” on Sunday and urged Muslim leaders to speak out against the Taliban government’s…

U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for Afghans in U.S. custody, a senior Taliban leader with direct…

Biden blocks Japan’s Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel

President Joe Biden said Friday that he has decided to block a $15 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by the Japanese company Nippon Steel, capping off a yearlong business saga…

Gaza’s babies struggle to cope with plummeting temperatures

Seela al-Faseeh was only two weeks old when her father, Mahmoud al-Faseeh, 31, said he took her from their makeshift tent near Khan Younis to the pediatric emergency ward at…

Discovery of 50,000-year-old baby mammoth a big boon to researchers

A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The mammoth was a “unique…