By Alex Marquardt and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — A ceasefire deal in Gaza that would see Israeli hostages freed and the first break in the fighting in more than three months is unlikely to happen by the start of Ramadan which the Biden administration had been aiming for, according to sources familiar with the
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By Abeer Salman and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 people were killed amid devastating scenes in northern Gaza, where Israeli troops opened fire Thursday, triggering panic as hungry Palestinian civilians were gathering around food aid trucks, Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses said. People had swarmed around newly arrived aid trucks in western Gaza City in the
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The Israeli government is considering an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to escape the country’s conflict with Hamas.
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The US has begun conducting airstrikes on targets in Iraq and Syria, the start of what will likely be a series of larger-scale US strikes on Iranian-backed militias who have carried out attacks on US troops in the Middle East, according to two US officials.
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The conflict in the Middle East took a deadly turn Sunday for the United States when three soldiers were killed in a drone strike in Jordan.
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By Anna Chernova and Lindsay Isaac, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s Supreme Court has declared what it called the “international LGBTQ movement” an extremist organization and banned all activities associated with it in the country. The landmark ruling on Thursday is set to further erode the rights of Russia’s LGBTQ community, who have faced an intensifying
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By Rob Picheta, Joseph Ataman and Amir Tal, CNN (CNN) — For more than six weeks, the conditions in which the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas were being held in Gaza were virtually unknown to the outside world. But testimony from some of the hostages released by the militant group in recent days is now
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By Mostafa Salem and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The truce that saw the return of 50 Israeli women and children from captivity in Gaza, as well as dozens of other nationals, has been extended for two more days, officials said Monday, as the hard-negotiated initial four-day pause concluded successfully following a late-night release of
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Many countries have called for humanitarian pauses in the fighting in Gaza to allow aid to get in and foreign citizens to get out.
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CNN By Helen Regan, Artemis Moshtaghian and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — The entire population of Gaza is “being dehumanized,” the chief of the main UN agency operating there told the UN Security Council Monday, as pressure intensified on the besieged strip with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruling out a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Joe Biden this past week released proposals requesting more than $105 billion, which will include assistance for Israel and Ukraine, according to reporting from CNN and the Associated Press. Do you think it’s a good idea to give more assistance to Ukraine and Israel? Let us know in the poll and
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As the Israel-Hamas war wages on this week, more than 300,000 reserve Israeli soldiers were called to fight.
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The powder keg blew up over the weekend.
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The world marked the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Friday.
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President Joe Biden is set to speak Tuesday morning in Warsaw about the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Westminster College welcomed one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most-outspoken critics to the Churchill Museum. Former world chess champion and Garry Kasparov delivered a lecture at the 39th annual Churchill Conference. Kasparov first became famous for being one of the best chess players in the world, but since retiring from chess in
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By Yoonjung Seo, Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, Brad Lendon and Simone McCarthy, CNN Japan urged residents to take shelter early Tuesday morning after North Korea fired a ballistic missile without warning over the country for the first time in five years, in a major and potentially dangerous escalation of recent weapons tests by the Kim
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has renewed his threat to use any means necessary to defend Russian territory.
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Hurricane Fiona has been hammering Puerto Rico for days, cutting power off on the island.
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On the wall of Nancy Cleaveland’s dining room hangs a portrait of her at 16 years old.
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