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News

Updated May 8, 2024 - 12:59 PM EDT

Israel Captures Rafah Border, Cutting Off Aid

		*Biden Gave Netanyahu the Green Light To Capture Rafah Crossing*
		*Private US Security Firm To Take Control of Rafah Border Crossing*
		*'My Children Cling to Me as Dogs Raid Rafah Graves Near Shelter'*

Biden Reaffirms 'Ironclad' Support for Israel

		*Hamas Says No Ceasefire Deal if Israel Continues Rafah Operation*
		*US Report on Israel's Wartime Conduct in Gaza Delayed, Aides Say*

Belarus Tests Readiness of Nuclear Forces

Russia Warns It Can Strike UK Military Targets

Two Israeli Soldiers Killed in Hezbollah Drone Attack

US, Philippines Simulate Conflicts Over Taiwan, S. China Sea

How the Australian Army Privatized SAS Elite to Outfit Omni

Viewpoints

	The Ukraine Aid Package Heightens the Risk of Escalation by James Carden & Katrina vanden Heuvel
	Columbia Student Terrorists? NYPD Must Think We're Pretty Dumb by Branko Marcetic

	Biden's Foreign Policy Has the US in Deep Trouble by John Mearsheimer
	A Missed Off-Ramp for US Venezuela Policy by Ivan Eland
More Viewpoints

Spotlight

How Israel Supported Hamas Against the PLO
by Jeremy R. Hammond

Frontline

	TikTok Sues US Govt, Saying Potential Ban Violates First Amendment
	After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
	USS Eisenhower Back in Red Sea To Boost Anti-Yemen Efforts

Thousands Rally Across Israel Calling for Netanyahu To Accept Ceasefire Deal

Pro-Palestine Protests

	Gazans Salute University Students' Uprising for Palestine
	Ex-Israeli Special Forces Agent Says He Went 'Undercover' at UCLA Protest Encampment
	Pro-Palestine Protests: How Some Universities Reached Deals With Students
	NYPD Arrests Gaza War Protesters Rallying Near the Met Gala
	'A Battle Scene': The Brutality of Police Raids at Columbia University and CCNY
	German Police Clear Pro-Palestinian Camp at Berlin University
	Police Break Up a Pro-Palestinian Student Protest in Berlin as Demonstrations Spread Across Europe
	Clashes Break Out in Pro-Palestinian Rally in Greece
	British Students Launch Gaza Sit-Ins at Balfour's Old Universities
	Police Clear Protest From Swiss University as Gaza Demonstrations Spread

Russia/Ukraine

	Ukraine Arrests Two Colonels Accused of Russian Plot To Assassinate President Zelensky
	Russia Court Allows Seizure of $13 Million of JPMorgan and Commerzbank Assets
	Russia Wants No Country to Interfere in Its Election Process: Kremlin Spokesman
	US, UK, Most EU Nations to Boycott Putin Inauguration
	Russia Declares US NGO Freedom House an Undesirable Organization

Germany

	German Conservatives Vote for Compulsory Military Service
	Austria Plans To Deport Convicts to Kosovo

Afghanistan

	The SAS Murders: How a Senior UK Officer Exposed an Afghan War Crime Cover-Up
	Taliban Say Order Restored After Afghan Opium Poppy Protests

Asia

	China's Xi Visits Belgrade Embassy Bombing Site
	Vietnam Celebrates 70 Years Since Dien Bien Phu Battle That Ended French Colonial Rule
	Malaysian Government Defends Presence of Companies That Supply Weapons to Israel at Defense Show
	Pakistan's Military Says Recent Suicide Attack That Killed Five Chinese Was Planned in Afghanistan
	Philippines Did Not Agree to 'New Model' To Manage Second Thomas Shoal With China, Officials Say

Gaza

	This Gaza Doctor Refused To Abandon His Patients. Israel Tortured Him to Death
	'Unlike Anything We Have Studied': Gaza's Destruction in Numbers
	UK Yet To See 'Credible' Israeli Plan To Protect Civilians in Rafah
	'Intolerable': UN Chief Warns Rafah Invasion Will Have Devastating Consequences
	Four Children From Gaza Arrive in US for Medical Treatment
	US Completes Construction of Gaza Aid Pier

Israel/Palestine

	Drafter of Leahy Law Says It Was Never Applied to Israel
	Israel's Shutdown of Al Jazeera Is Mainly Due to Domestic Politics and Not Over National Security
	Saudis Strongly Condemn Israel Amid Rafah Invasion Fears
	Did Israel Coordinate With Egypt Before Reoccupying the Rafah Crossing?
	Mid-Level Israeli Team To Head to Cairo To Assess Hamas Position, Official Says
	Hostage Families Urge US, Other Countries To Press Israel To Reach Deal With Hamas
	Palestine Seeks General Assembly Support for UN Membership
	What It's Like To Be Used as a Human Shield by the Israeli Army

Lebanon

	UNICEF: Children Pay the Price for Rising Conflict in Lebanon
	Israeli Air Raids Target South Lebanon's Town of Aita Al-Shaab

Iraq

	Iraq Weekly Roundup: 59 Killed
	'Alarming Lack of Transparency:' Amnesty Slams Latest Iraq Prisoner Executions

Africa

	Death Toll From Strikes on DR Congo Camps Rises to 18
	Egyptians Outraged at Israel's Military Operations in Rafah
	Call for Port Extension To Be Halted as Genocide Remains Are Found on Namibia's Shark Island
	Sudanese Army Recaptures Key Base in North Kordofan
	Togo's President Signs Law Expected To Extend His Decades-Long Rule

The War at Home

	Democratic Lawmakers Support Biden's LNG Permit Pause
	How Sexual Harassment and the Shipyard Crippled a Navy Warship
	US Must Support Critical Mineral Projects in Risky Nations, White House Adviser Says
	US Soldier Bucked Army Rules Before Arrest in Russia