Today in HistoryToday is Sunday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2023. There are 77 days left in the year.Today鈥檚 Highlight in History:On this date:In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed French emperor, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he spent the last 5 ...
Israel鈥檚 military ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate ahead of an expected Israel ground offensive. The directive came Friday on the heels of what the United Nations said was a warning it received from Israel to <a ...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) 鈥� Conservative former businessman Christopher Luxon will be New Zealand鈥檚 next prime minister after winning a decisive election victory Saturday.People voted for change after six years of a liberal government led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern.The exact ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) 鈥� Some fled home with suitcases jammed with clothes and heirlooms and photographs. Some left with stacks of foam mattresses tied to car roofs. They took buses and vans and cars and carts pulled by donkeys.Many walked. Many had nothing with them but exhausted ...
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� For the unforeseeable future, Laila El-Haddad has one mission: to get the voices of her fellow Palestinians, along with their pleas for help, out to the rest of the world.From her home office in Columbia, Maryland, El-Haddad frantically juggled phone calls this week from ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) 鈥� Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent <a ...
