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Abdullatif Abu Alia kneels over a pillow soaked with dried blood from where his cousin, 25 year old Jehad, bled to death after being shot in the head during an attack on his home by Israeli settler.

When word came over the weekend that Israel's closest ally, the United States, reportedly plans to hold members of an Israeli military battalion accountable for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, rights groups saw it as progress.

Posted: April 23, 2024, 8:00 am
People crowded on a rubber dinghy on the water.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Monday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of Parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan.

Posted: April 23, 2024, 1:30 am
Closeup of a fuzzy, bright blue butterfly with white-tipped wings perched on a plant.

For decades, conservationists have been restoring the biodiversity of San Francisco's coastal dunes. But a key piece of the puzzle was missing — until now. 

Posted: April 22, 2024, 10:10 pm
A portion of a television tower lies on the ground in Kharkiv, Ukraine, following a Russian missile strike.

A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine's second-largest city uninhabitable, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 7:58 pm
Two people, carrying items on their heads, walk past a bullet-riddle concrete wall with three black and white images painted along the the top and, in the left corner, a blue United Nations logo with the Arabic letters above and the word UNRWA below.

A review of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has found it has "robust" frameworks to ensure compliance with humanitarian neutrality principles, though issues persist, in a report that could prompt some donors to review funding freezes.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 7:46 pm
People in white hazmat suits use shovels to dig through brown, sandy dirt.

More bodies were recovered on Monday from what Gaza Civil Defence workers said were mass graves on the site of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the biggest in southern Gaza, raising the number of bodies found over the past week to 283. Israel says it was forced to battle inside that and other hospitals because Hamas fighters operated there, which medical staff and Hamas deny.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 5:18 pm
A cleanshaven older man in a suit and tie is shown seated at a table in closeup, looking into the camera.

Donald Trump 'orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election' a prosecutor said as the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president got underway. The defence hinted at blaming Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for any wrongdoing.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 3:58 pm
A woman carries a small child in her arms, with police officers in helmets on either side on a sidewalk. Behind them a large ball of fire and smoke is shown in the background.

The head of Israeli military intelligence, who last year accepted responsibility for the failures that allowed the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, has resigned, the military said in a statement on Monday.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 10:55 am
Plastic waste floats in a reservoir in El Salvador

A key week of negotiations kicks off Tuesday, as representatives descend on Ottawa to tackle the worldwide issue of plastic pollution. The fourth and penultimate installment of talks tees up a final session later this year in Korea, where parties hope to sign onto a binding global treaty on plastic.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 8:00 am

An overwhelming majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favour of legislation that would force an ultimatum on TikTok’s parent company, which is partly Chinese owned, to sell within a year or face an outright ban.

Posted: April 22, 2024, 1:31 am