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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 - The entire Gaza Strip will be under the Israeli military's control at the end of its latest offensive, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in his first news conference since December, setting out maximalist conditions for ending the devastating war on the besieged Palestinian enclave. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardments across Gaza in recent days, at least 82 ...

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 - The Trump administration on Wednesday said it placed eight migrant detainees with serious criminal records on a deportation flight that lawyers alleged was destined for the violence-plagued African country of South Sudan, in its latest attempt to deport migrants to countries that are not their own.  The administration has not publicly disclosed the whereabouts of the flight, which a federal judge on Wednesday ...

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 - Even if the world meets the international goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, the consequences of the climate change crisis may still be far more severe than expected. A new study warns that sea levels are set to rise faster than humanity can adapt, posing a long-term threat to coastal communities worldwide. According to researchers, the current pace of melting from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets ...

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 - The bus was carrying around 40 students to an army school when it was targeted, leaving at least several children among the fatalities and dozens more people injured, officials said. Pakistan's prime minister has blamed India after five people - including at least three children - were killed when a suicide car bomber targeted an army school bus. The attack in Khuzdar, in the southwestern region of Balochistan , ...

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 - May 21 (UPI) -- The European Union has announced it is lifting sanctions on Syria to support the civil war-torn country's economic recovery. The EU's chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, announced the decision by the European Council, which directs the 27-member bloc's political agenda, on Tuesday. "We want to help the Syrian people rebuild a new, inclusive and peaceful Syria," Kallas, the EU's High Representative for ...

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 - President Vladimir Putin visited Russia's Kursk region for the first time since Moscow claimed that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area last month, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin visited the region bordering Ukraine the previous day, according to the Kremlin. Ukrainian forces made a surprise incursion into Kursk in August 2024 in one of their biggest battlefield successes in ...