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Judge orders CIA analyst accused of Israel-Iran leak held pending trial

Dec. 11, 2024 23:23 PM EST

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A CIA analyst charged with leaking top secret details ahead of a planned Israeli attack on Iran earlier this year will remain jailed pending trial, a judge ordered Wednesday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles overrules a magistrate who...

UN General Assembly demands ceasefire in Gaza and backs UN agency helping Palestinian refugees

Dec. 11, 2024 20:12 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban. The votes in the 193-nation world body were 158-9, with 13...

Middle East latest: UN General Assembly demands a ceasefire in Gaza

Dec. 11, 2024 18:01 PM EST

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing support for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, although they reflect world...

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 33 including children, Palestinian medics say

Dec. 11, 2024 17:58 PM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday, with one attack ripping through a home where displaced people were sheltering in the isolated north. The strikes killed at least 33 people including children, Palestinian health officials said. ...

House approves $895B defense bill with military pay raise, ban on transgender care for minors

Dec. 11, 2024 17:57 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military. The bill is traditionally strongly...

These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza

Dec. 11, 2024 11:59 AM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband and then 4-year-old daughter in March, when Israeli soldiers raided a family home in northern Gaza. She is haunted by those chaotic last moments, when the soldiers ordered her to go – to leave behind Talal and Masaa, both...

Israeli warplanes pound Syria as troops reportedly advance deeper into the country

Dec. 11, 2024 04:39 AM EST

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday, and the Israeli defense minister announced that his forces had destroyed Syria’s navy. Israel...

Australian police launch a special operation to investigate increased antisemitic attacks

Dec. 11, 2024 03:35 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian federal police launched a special operation to investigate an increase in antisemitic threats and violence since the war between Israel and Hamas began last year. Jewish leaders say prejudice against their community has reached unprecedented...

AP photos in 2024 show a Middle East riven by wars, but also moments of grace

Dec. 11, 2024 03:07 AM EST

An Israeli bomb hangs suspended in air, caught in a split-second image of a suburb in Beirut before it slams into an apartment building, passersby already bracing for the explosion. An Israeli woman grieves, the deep lines of wrinkles stark as she thinks of a man killed in Hamas’...

Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza mostly blocked for the last 2 months, UN says

Dec. 11, 2024 01:39 AM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Humanitarian aid to n orth Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said Tuesday. That has left between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to food, water, electricity or health...