A UN agency reported that the Israeli onslaught in Gaza has left most of the buildings damaged or destroyed and caused a massive economic collapse. The agency said the rebuilding will cost $70 billion and take decades. The United Nations Conference on Trade and...
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she was resigning from her seat. MTG explained she would leave office early next year. “I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives which is why...
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said it concluded its operations in the Strip. For months, the GHF was the exclusive distributor of food aid in Gaza. During that period, Palestinians starved to death, and thousands of people were murdered attempting to reach...
A ceasefire that looks good on paper means little when people are living under lockdowns and raids. We open with the West Bank, where daily operations near schools and reports of soldiers quartering in homes reshape civilian life and hollow out the promise of...
The Iranian Foreign Minister warned that Tehran had learned lessons from the Israeli and US war in June and is now better equipped for a future conflict. “We are even more prepared than the previous war,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Economist in an...
While there is officially a truce in Gaza, Israel has continued to kill Palestinians daily. The Gaza Media Office reports Israel has committed nearly 500 ceasefire violations and killed 350 Palestinians since the truce went into effect on October 10. The Israeli...
A bipartisan group of Senators said Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them that President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan was not written by the administration and was a Russian wish list. Last week, Axios reported that the Trump administration’s peace...
The head of the French armed forces said his country must be prepared to send its children to die in a war with Russia. “Russia is convinced that the Europeans are weak. However, we are strong, fundamentally stronger than Russia,” Chief of the French Defense Staff...
On Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed a resolution demanding that Iran allow inspectors to reach sites bombed by Israel and the US. Tehran responded by withdrawing from an inspections agreement with the international nuclear watchdog. ...
Human Rights Watch declared Israel’s campaign of forced displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank a crime against humanity. “The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025...
After not approving a single weapons sale to Taiwan through the first nine months of his administration, President Donald Trump has authorized the sale of over $1 billion in arms to Taipei over the past week. “Raytheon was awarded a $698,948,760 firm-fixed-price...
US and Russian officials have been meeting to discuss developing a new agreement to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. The Financial Times spoke with officials who said the deal would see Ukraine cede some territory to Russia. Moscow has demanded that Kiev agree...
