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Screenshot: Wikimedia Commons Credit: U.S. Secretary of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons House Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead with a House vote this weekend to send tens of billions overseas. The $95 billion bill provides aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and other American allies. Johnson (R-LA) posted on …

Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major escalation of what has long been a simmering undeclared war between Israel and Iran. Iran promises major retaliation, and the danger of a miscalculation is ever-present. But given the stakes …

Seven people working with the United States-based NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) have been killed in the Gaza Strip in what the group’s founder chef said was an Israeli air attack. The NGO, which provides fresh meals in response to conflict and natural disasters, was set up by Michelin-starred chef …

The authorities in Gaza on Tuesday evening, March 26, called for an end to aid being airdropped and encouraged an increase in deliveries by land.   The authorities disclosed that a total of 12 people drowned while trying to retrieve airdropped aid that had fallen into the Mediterranean.   People …

Authorities in Gaza said 23 people were also injured while waiting for bags of flour and aid near Kuwait Roundabout. At least 19 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack targeting civilians who were waiting for aid southeast of Gaza City, Gaza’s Ministry of Health and its Media Office …

Follow live updates on Tuesday’s primary elections. A new $120 million pledge to lift President Biden and his allies will push the total expected spending from outside groups working to re-elect Mr. Biden to $1 billion this year. The League of Conservation Voters, a leading climate organization that is among …

Children in the Gaza Strip are facing severe and rapidly worsening food deprivation, and an alarming number are suffering from the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, United Nations experts reported on Friday, in their most dire assessment yet of the unfolding crisis. About one in every 20 children in shelters …

Humanitarians warn that hunger has reached catastrophic levels in northern Gaza. Credit: UNRWA Opinion by Jake Johnson (washington dc) Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Mar 13 (IPS) – A group of senators said Tuesday that under U.S. law, the Biden administratio must cut off American military assistance …

The first sea shipment of food for Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tuesday morning, officials said, the start of an untested maritime corridor to bring aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians whom the United Nations says are on the brink of starvation. The ship was pulling …

A day after President Biden announced plans for maritime aid delivery to the Gaza Strip, European leaders said Friday they would deliver aid by ship as early as the weekend. But aid groups and Gaza officials criticized shipments by air or sea as too cumbersome, urging that vastly more food …