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Relatives mourn Palestinian journalist Hussam Shabat, who collaborated with Al Jazeera Mubasher, during his funeral at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday.
WORLD
Mar 25, 2025
Journalist killed, evacuation calls issued as Israel presses Gaza offensive
More than 206 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the war, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said.
Palestinians try to put out a fire at the emergency department of the Nasser Hospital after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Mar 24, 2025
Airstrike on Gaza hospital kills 5; Israel says target was Hamas militant
The Israeli military said its attack followed extensive intelligence and used precise munitions to minimize harm at the site.
A Palestinian boy rides a bicycle in an abandoned and partially constructed house, which his family inhabited after being displaced from the Jenin Camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
WORLD
Mar 23, 2025
Israel's Security Cabinet approves independence for 13 West Bank settlements
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry criticized the approval of the separation of the neighborhoods and their recognition as independent settlements.
An elderly man walks past rubble in Gaza City on Saturday.
WORLD
Mar 23, 2025
Israeli airstrike reportedly kills Hamas political leader in southern Gaza
Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said Israel's main aim is to destroy Hamas as a military and governing entity.
Palestinians look on during the handover by Hamas of deceased Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 20
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 22, 2025
Hamas remains potent threat to Israel despite muted response to strikes
Israel has inflicted serious damage on Hamas, but sources say the group has shown it can absorb major losses and still fight and govern.
Hamas gunmen stand guard at a funeral for a deputy military commander in the central Gaza Strip in February.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 22, 2025
Hamas studies U.S. 'bridge' proposal for truce as Israel escalates return to war
Israel has intensified a military onslaught to press the Palestinian militant group to free the remaining Israeli hostages.
A maternal handbook used by Heba Jibril in northern Gaza
JAPAN / Society
Mar 21, 2025
In Gaza, Japan-backed maternal handbooks a vital source for child care
The health handbooks provide crucial information for women at a time when medical facilities are closed and digital information is scarce.
Israeli soldiers work by military vehicles, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near the border with Gaza, in Israel, on Feb. 15.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 21, 2025
In Israel, reservist burnout and little public appetite for more war in Gaza
A full-scale ground war against Hamas could prove more complicated amid waning public support, exhausted military reservists and political challenges.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir shake hands as the government approves Netanyahu's proposal to reappoint Ben Gvir as minister of National Security on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 20, 2025
Netanyahu tightens grip on divided Israel with return to war
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening, with more demonstrations in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Smoke billows behind a cemetery (foreground) during Israeli strikes west of Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 19, 2025
Israeli Gaza strikes widen attacks on Iran’s militant allies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the renewed strikes were "only the beginning” and vowed to maintain military pressure until Hamas releases hostages.
A man walks through the rubble in a school-turned-camp after an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 18, 2025
Israel strikes Hamas targets throughout Gaza as ceasefire frays
The Israeli military, which said it hit dozens of targets, said the strikes would continue for as long as necessary and would extend beyond airstrikes.
A ship fires missiles toward an undisclosed location, after U.S. President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on Saturday.
WORLD
Mar 17, 2025
U.S. vows to keep hitting Houthis until shipping attacks stop
The Houthi-run health ministry said U.S. airstrikes on Saturday killed at least 53 people.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators camp out at an encampment at Columbia University in April last year.
WORLD / Society
Mar 14, 2025
Harvard, Yale, Columbia fall in line after funding threats
U.S. universities are taking a harder line following threats of funding cuts by the White House over their criticized handling of pro-Palestine rallies last year.
Palestinian women stand in a window of a damaged building in Gaza in January.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2025
U.N. experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the report's findings, saying they were biased and antisemitic.
Noor Abdalla, 28, wife of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement looks at an ultrasound photograph in New York on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2025
Wife of student arrested in U.S. says she was naive to think he would be secure
Two days before U.S. agents came, her husband asked her if she knew what to do if immigration agents were at their door.
Mahmoud Khalil speaks to members of the media about the Revolt for Rafah encampment at Columbia University during the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York on June 1, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2025
Judge extends ban on deportation of U.S. student over opposition to war in Gaza
The case that has become a flash point following a pledge by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to deport some pro-Palestinian college activists.
A youth pushes a bicycle loaded with filled water containers outside the Southern Gaza Desalination plant, which stopped working after Israeli after cut off electricity supply to the Gaza Strip, in Deir el-Balah in the center of the Palestinian territory on Monday.
WORLD
Mar 11, 2025
Israeli move to cut power to Gaza affects some water supplies but little else
At night the territory is plunged into almost total darkness, after more than 15 months of intense Israeli bombardment and fighting that had already destroyed the grid.
Jewish settlers pray in the Evyatar settler outpost in the northern West Bank last July
WORLD / Politics
Mar 10, 2025
Christians press Trump to clear path for Israel to annex West Bank
Some 80% of white, evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Now, some want a policy change that could undermine a future Palestinian state.
A solar panel provides electricity in northern Gaza on Feb. 13. Israel’s energy minister said on Sunday that he was immediately cutting off electricity to the Gaza Strip as Israel tries to pressure Hamas amid talks over their fragile truce.
WORLD
Mar 10, 2025
Israel halts Gaza's electricity supply ahead of new truce talks
Israel's decision comes a week after it blocked all aid supplies to Gaza.
Students walk through the University of Pennsylvania campus. It has been reported that the U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke the visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants.
WORLD
Mar 7, 2025
Reported U.S. plan to use AI to revoke student visas sparks alarm
Axios reported that a "Catch and Revoke" effort will include AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Don’t worry about global population collapse
Most projections show the world will hit peak humanity in the 21st century as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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