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The U.S. Senate approved a package that includes $26 billion in aid for Israel and for civilians in conflict zones, including Gaza, over objections from some Democrats opposed to Israel’s ... Read More

UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with the worst famine in Gaza

Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report on ... Read More

US must care for migrant children in camps, judge says

Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for Customs and Border Protection officers to process them are in the agency's custody and are subject to a long-standing ... Read More

U.S. and World

BERLIN (AP) — Four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary of his birth, and one gave a ... Read More

US Secretary of State Blinken Says Ukraine Will Be NATO Member

US Secretary of State Blinken Says Ukraine Will Be NATO Member BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that Ukraine will eventually join NATO as support for ... Read More

Larry Fink Says World Leaders Must Address Growing Retirement Crisis

Larry Fink sees a global retirement crisis brewing ... BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager with $10 trillion in assets, says more than half of the assets it manages are for retirement. Read More

Does the world face a retirement crisis?

Perhaps the biggest crisis ... world were older than 65 — that number will be one-in-six "by the midcentury mark." For some, a crisis is already here. "Retirement is becoming a luxury in the U.S ... Read More

US says Israel has not received all requested weapons for fight in Gaza: 'Don't have capacity'

Though the U.S. backing of Jerusalem in its fight against Hamas has become a controversial issue, not for financial reasons but because of a growing humanitarian crisis there. The U.S. position on ... Read More

World Central Kitchen Says U.S. Citizen Among 7 Staff Killed in ‘Targeted’ Triple Israeli Attack

A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen was among ... “I am heartbroken and appalled that we—World Central Kitchen and the world—lost beautiful lives today because of a targeted attack by the IDF ... Read More

Iran’s Khamenei says Israel ‘must be punished’ for Syria embassy attack

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that Israel “must be punished and it shall ... while Iraqi groups have fired on US forces in Syria and Iraq and the Houthis ... Read More

Ericsson Says U.S.-Imposed Monitor Has OK’d Its Anticorruption Program

Ericsson said a U.S.-imposed compliance monitor has certified that its anticorruption program is working, a crucial step for the telecommunications company to emerge from the close Justice ... Read More

Larry Fink Says World Leaders Must Address Growing Retirement Crisis

Photo: Josephine Chu Larry Fink sees a global retirement crisis brewing. The 71-year-old chief executive of BlackRock says an aging population is stressing retirement safety nets such as Social ... Read More