Melinda French Gates, one of the world’s preeminent philanthropists, said Monday she would resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that she has helped lead since 2000.
Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.
Israeli tanks have been seen plunging deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah amid reports that some 500,000 people have fled amid the escalating ground offensive.
An Army officer working at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has resigned in protest of the US’s “unqualified” support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Rafah border crossing into Gaza remained closed on Wednesday following its capture by Israeli forces, cutting off vital aid deliveries after the UN’s World Food Program warned Palestinians in northern Gaza are already facing a “full-blown famine.”
Gruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.
House Democrats protected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust him on Wednesday after he pushed forward $95 billion in foreign military aid spending, including $61 billion for the Ukraine proxy war.
MALMÖ, Sweden — Thousands of demonstrators waving Palestinian flags flooded Sweden’s third largest city on Thursday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and protest Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest here this week.