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February 26th, 2025

China's PLA Offers Details on Live-Fire Pacific Drills Led by Type 055 Destroyer Zunyi Just 33% of Democrats Have a Favorable View of Israel, Gallup Poll Finds
Hamas Hands Over Four Bodies of Israeli Hostages, Israel Begins Freeing Hundreds of Palestinians Keir Starmer's Plan for UK Growth: The Ukraine War
Denmark: Protesters Shut Down Maersk Entrance Over Arms Transfer to Israel Trump Returns to Maximum Pressure Policy Against Venezuela
Trump Removes Biden-Era Order That Linked Arms Transfers to Humanitarian Aid US Air Base in Italy Goes on Lockdown for Several Hours
UN Food Agency Pauses Aid to Famine-Hit Sudan Displacement Camp of Half a Million People NATO Defense Spending Ranking: Who's at the Top?
House Foreign Affairs Chair Tells Staff To Refer to Israeli-Occupied West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria' Trump Administration Appeals Deadline To Release US Foreign Aid Funding
Lebanon's New Government Wins Confidence Vote in Parliament Bibas Family Demands Israeli Government Stops Using Captives' Deaths in Public
City University of New York Labor Union Leadership Rescinds Vote To Divest From Israel Columbia's Barnard College Is First To Expel Students Over Gaza War
Japan Targets Weapons Sales Through Indo-Pacific, as Industrial Ties Lag Strategic Ones New Report Details Police Repression of Palestine Activism at UCLA
Turkey Kills 12 in Strikes on Kurds in Northeast Syria Trump Says Ukraine Can 'Forget' About Joining NATO
Trump Confirms That Zelensky Will Be Visiting Washington on Friday To Sign Minerals Deal Exclusion of Kurds From Syrian National Dialogue Conference 'Bad Sign': ENKS Political Party
Iraq Confirms Agreement With KRG To Resume Kurdish Oil Exports Another Gazan Detainee Dies in Israeli Detention
EU Lawmakers Denied Entry to Israel Call for Bloc's Strong Response Palestinian Organization Unveils Map That Shows Israel Controls 44.5% of West Bank Amid Increased Settlement
Trump Signals More Firings of Military Leaders, With Focus on Afghanistan Withdrawal UK PM Starmer Declines To Say Whether Defense Spending Increase Includes Chagos Cash
Chagos Deal Will Not Go Ahead if Donald Trump Rejects It: UK Foreign Secretary UN Rights Chief Warns of 'Unprecedented' Violations in Occupied Palestine, Calls for Accountability
Buoyed by Record Contracts, Turkish Defense Firm Racks Up $417.2 Million Net Profits in 2024 US Airman Who Self-Immolated in Solidarity With Gaza Commemorated Outside Israeli Embassy
North Korean Leader Directs Military To 'Intensify' Training, Prepare for 'Modern Warfare' Meeting of Russian, US Diplomats To Take Place in Istanbul on Thursday: Russia's Foreign Minister
US Can't Keep Subsidizing 'Rich' Western Europe: Secretary of State Rubio Ukraine To Not Accept Even 10 Cents of Debt Repayment in Agreement With US, Says Zelensky
Army Will Field Its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon by End of Fiscal Year VA Claims $2 Billion in Savings From Contract Cuts, Vows No Benefits Impact
Gabbard To Fire 100 Intelligence Officers Over 'Sexually Explicit' Chats Give Carmakers a Shot at Making Weapons, Deputy Defense Secretary Nominee Says
Max Blumenthal Harassed at US Airport in Attack on Journalism Bibas Family Threatens To Sue Israeli Govt as Official Propaganda on Hostage Killings Unravels
Trump Shares AI Video of 'Trump Gaza,' Drawing Backlash Three Killed in Eastern Lebanon in 24 Hours as Israel Steps Up Drone Strikes
House Passes Budget Resolution That Will Increase Military Spending by $100 Billion US Ends Power Africa Initiative After a Decade
Cook Islands PM Beats No-Confidence Vote, Slams New Zealand Jeff Bezos Exerts More Control of Washington Post Opinion, Says Focus Will Be on 'Personal Liberties and Free Markets'
Romanian Police Arrest Romanian Election Frontrunner Georgescu UN Rejects 'Annexation' Proposals for Palestinian Territories
Biden, Blinken, Austin Referred to ICC Over 'Intentionally Aiding' Gaza Genocide Ukraine Outlines US Minerals Deal, but Touts No Concrete Security Guarantees
Egypt Rejects Proposal for It To Run Gaza as 'Unacceptable': Foreign Ministry EU Needs To Do More To Boost Defense Spending: Italy's Meloni
West Bank Becoming 'Battlefield,' Over 50 Killed in Five Weeks: UNRWA Chief Japan Reaffirms 'Unwavering' Support for Ukraine, Calls for Peace on Third Anniversary of War
Somali Govt Claims 70 Al-Shabaab Killed in Military Operation Spanish Armed Forces Deploy LTR 25 Radar for NATO Mission in Romania
Estonia To Send 10,000 Shells to Ukraine With New Aid Package Norway Allocates $312 Million To Support Kyiv, Buy Equipment From Ukrainian Firms
Rubble Into Mass Graves: The Fate of Gaza's 14,000 Missing Iraqi Delegation To Visit Syria on Border Security, ISIS Threat
Iran Denounces New US Sanctions as 'Sign of Hostility' US To Pitch Arab Developers on Trump Gaza 'Takeover' Plan
Trump Followers Slam Gaza AI Video He Posted to Truth Social Photos: Returning to the Front Line in Ukraine
Death Toll in Sudan Military Plane Crash Rises to 46 A Gaza Mother's Heartbreak as Her Son's Release Is Postponed
USAID Staff Given 15 Minutes To Gather Belongings From Washington, DC, Office 'Designed To Humiliate': Israel's Torture of Gaza's Healthcare Workers
Israel Arrests Dozens of Palestinians in Overnight West Bank Raids Rwanda Slams UK Sanctions Over DR Congo Violence
Turkey's Drones Boost Sudanese Army Against RSF How the RSF's Parallel Government Could Divide Sudan - and Africa
Egyptian-British Activist's Mother at 'Risk of Sudden Death,' as She Marks 150th Day of Hunger Strike Hundreds of British Celebrities Call on BBC To Restore Gaza Documentary
Graffiti Left by Israeli Soldiers Turn South Lebanon Homes Into a Canvas of War Israel's 'Gazafication' of West Bank Forcing 'Largest Displacement Since 1967'

February 25th, 2025

Israel Carries Out Airstrikes Across Southern Syria, Netanyahu Vows Troops Will Remain
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