Updated at 7:13 pm Eastern Time on July 24, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday delivered an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday and spent a good portion of his speech attacking Americans who have been protesting Israel's...
Ukraine FM Signals Readiness To Resume Talks With Russia During China Visit
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visited China on Wednesday and signaled Ukraine was ready to resume peace talks with Russia. According to Ukraine's Foreign Ministry, Kuleba told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Kyiv "is ready to engage the Russian side...
Ben Gvir Again Declares Jewish Prayer Is Allowed at al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli Minister of National Security Ben Gvir said Wednesday that Jews were allowed to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, a position that breaks from the decades-long status quo at the compound, known as Temple Mount to the Israelis. Under the status...
Ukrainian Officials Hope To Convince Trump and Vance To Continue Proxy War
Ukrainian officials are hoping former President Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, could be swayed to continue supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia if they win in November, Time Magazine reported on Tuesday. A senior Ukrainian official told the...
Hezbollah Launches Retaliatory Drones at Northern Israel After Deadly Drone Strike
Hezbollah responded to an Israeli drone strike earlier Tuesday by launching a flurry of drone attacks against Mount Neria. An Israeli spokesman also reporting drone attacks near Mount Meron and rocket fire against the city of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel. In...
UN Says 150,000 Palestinians Flee Israel’s New Assault on Khan Younis
The UN said Tuesday that it estimated 150,000 Palestinians have fled eastern Khan Younis since Israel launched its new assault on the southern Gaza Strip city on Monday. Israel's evacuation order for the new Khan Younis offensive covered areas previously declared...
Poll Shows 32% of Ukrainians Would Accept Territorial Concessions for Peace
A poll published on Tuesday found that a growing number of Ukrainians would accept ceding territory to Russia to end the war. The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) said its poll was conducted from May 16-22 and surveyed 1,067 people living in...
Netanyahu To Meet Biden on Thursday, Trump on Friday
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with both President Biden and former President Trump during his visit to the United States. Netanyahu's office said in a statement that the Israeli leader would be meeting with Biden at the White House on...
Pentagon Releases Strategy Calling for Increased Military Presence in the Arctic
On Tuesday, the Pentagon released a new strategy for the Arctic that called for an increased US military presence in the region to confront Russia and China. The Pentagon said the Arctic is increasingly becoming an area of "strategic competition," and the strategy...
EU’s Top Diplomat Boycotts Hungary’s EU Presidency Over Orban’s Peace Mission
Josep Borrell, the European Union's top foreign policy official, has taken a step to effectively boycott Hungary's rotating presidency of the EU in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent efforts to pursue peace in Ukraine. Hungary was scheduled to...