Coming Up This Week EU foreign ministers are meeting today in Brussels. They're expected to discuss a new military aid package for Ukraine, as well as fresh sanctions on both Hamas and violent Israel …

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Israel / GazaHamas sent Israel a new ceasefire proposal offering to release the children, elderly, sick, and female hostages - even "female recruits" - in exchange for a ceasefire and the release of 1 …

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Happy Pi Day! In honor of my favorite holiday, here are some superb pie charts: Now for the news. China The U.S. House overwhelmingly (352-65) passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless …

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Haiti The Kenyan-led peacekeeping force that outgoing PM Henry negotiated to try to quell the violence in Haiti is pausing its deployment there...because of the escalation of violence in Haiti after …

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Coming Up This Week Today is the start of the holy month of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia and several Gulf countries; while Iranians, Jordanians, and many Asian-Pacific Muslims will begin their month of fa …

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Middle East Hamas's political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, called on Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem to defy Israeli restrictions around the Al Aqsa mosque (which were put in place after previ …

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