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Renewed fighting in Gaza after a week-long truce has brought back a “nightmarish situation” for the Palestinian territory, the head of the Red Cross told AFP on Friday. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai,

While leaders around the world remember Henry Kissinger fondly and praise him as a brilliant, hard-driving US statesman, the silence from Latin America is deafening. “A man has died whose historical brilliance never managed to conceal his moral wretchedness,” Chile’s

Japan’s coastguard said a major search operation failed again Friday to locate the main wreckage of an Osprey US military aircraft or the seven airmen still missing. The tilt-rotor CV-22B Osprey crashed on Wednesday off the island of Yakushima with

“It’s a trillion tons of ice,” as one expert told NPR. Now the largest iceberg in the world, A23a, is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor. (Image credit: European Union/Copernicus Sentinel-3/via Reuters)

Do you know your puppets from your politicians? What about the new word of the year and the world of rare crustaceans? Test your knowledge of this week’s news. (Image credit: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Noam Galai/Getty Images for Tribeca

The freshman New York Republican is facing nearly two dozen federal charges related to financial misdeeds, many of which have been corroborated in a report compiled by House lawmakers. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The United States looms large at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Historically, it’s responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other nation. But it’s also key for major breakthroughs. (Image credit: William Vasta/The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands)

Israel resumes combat operations against Hamas: live updates  CNN Talks continue on Israel-Hamas truce as airstrikes hit Gaza, mediator Qatar says  Yahoo News IDF says it has renewed combat in Gaza: ‘Hamas violated the ceasefire’  The Times of Israel Israel Resumes War Against

Oil prices are expected to rise in the coming months in an undersupplied market following additional OPEC+ cuts, but compliance levels among member states will be closely watched, UBS said.

Statement from President Biden on the Passing of Henry Kissinger  The White House Henry Kissinger and the Moral Bankruptcy of U.S. Elites  Democracy Now! Henry Kissinger died avoiding accountability for his crimes  MSNBC Opinion | Ben Rhodes: Henry Kissinger, the Hypocrite  The New York