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UNGA Briefing: Netanyahu, tuberculosis and what else is going on at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's Day 4 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Thursday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on Friday. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE UN GENERAL...
Palestinian leader tells UN there can be no Mideast peace without his people enjoying full rights
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that there can be no peace in the Middle East without his people enjoying their “full and legitimate national rights.” It was the closest he came in a nearly 25-minute address...
Israel strikes alleged Syrian military structures. It says the buildings violated a 1974 cease-fire
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said tanks struck two structures inside a demilitarized zone in Syria on Thursday, claiming the buildings violated a half-century-old cease-fire agreement between the two countries. The structures, it said, were being used by the Syrian...
UN reports says West Bank settler violence has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians since 2022
JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence from Israeli settlers has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to a U.N. report released Thursday, with officials describing the exodus as unparalleled in recent years. The report documented about three...
An Israeli tank was stolen from a military zone. Authorities found it in a junkyard
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how a heavily armored, but unarmed, tank was stolen from a military training zone after finding it discarded in a junkyard. The Israeli Merkava 2 tank disappeared from a training zone in northern Israel near the coastal...
Saudi crown prince says in rare interview 'every day we get closer' to normalization with Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a rare interview with Fox News on Wednesday that negotiations over Israel means the prospects of normalized relations between both countries “get closer" every day, but that treatment of Palestinians remains a “very important”...
UNGA Briefing: Permanent observers, more Security Council and what else is going on at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Wednesday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on Thursday. Follow our live updates to keep up with...
Biden warns Netanyahu about the health of Israel's democracy and urges compromise on court overhaul
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden raised “hard issues,” including protecting the “checks and balances” in a democracy, in a Wednesday meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing the Israeli leader to find a compromise on a judicial overhaul that has set off months of mass...
Live Updates: World leaders convene for Day 2 of the UN General Assembly high-level meeting
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Welcome to the United Nations. Over the course of the next week, leaders from scores of countries will take the marbled dais that, despite being geographically located in midtown Manhattan, belongs to the world. It's part of the U.N. General Assembly's General Debate, in...
Six Palestinians are killed in latest fighting with Israel, at least 3 of them militants
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank and unrest in the Gaza Strip killed six Palestinians, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, the latest spike in a wave of violence that has roiled the region for more than a year. At least three of those killed...
