Palestinian men and boys wait to receive food from a charity kitchen Gaza. Contributor/AFP hide caption toggle caption Contributor/AFP The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC. They say that famine has officially
Hamas militants arrive in an area before releasing Israeli hostage Agam Berger to a Red Cross team in Jabalia on January 30, 2025, as part of their third hostage-prisoner exchange. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty A U.N. backed panel of experts declares a famine in the northern part
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Friday. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP TORONTO — Canada is dropping many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United
Palestinian men and boys wait to receive food from a charity kitchen Gaza. Contributor/AFP hide caption toggle caption Contributor/AFP The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC. They say that famine has officially
Hamas militants arrive in an area before releasing Israeli hostage Agam Berger to a Red Cross team in Jabalia on January 30, 2025, as part of their third hostage-prisoner exchange. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty A U.N. backed panel of experts declares a famine in the northern part
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Friday. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP TORONTO — Canada is dropping many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories A U.N.-backed panel of experts on starvation has declared that Gaza is in the grip of famine. The announcement comes after nearly
Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel's blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive food. Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images The world's leading authority on food insecurity has confirmed a famine in Gaza. In a report published Friday, the
Palestinian men and boys wait to receive food from a charity kitchen Gaza. Contributor/AFP hide caption toggle caption Contributor/AFP The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC. They say that famine has officially
Hamas militants arrive in an area before releasing Israeli hostage Agam Berger to a Red Cross team in Jabalia on January 30, 2025, as part of their third hostage-prisoner exchange. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty A U.N. backed panel of experts declares a famine in the northern part
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Friday. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP TORONTO — Canada is dropping many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories A U.N.-backed panel of experts on starvation has declared that Gaza is in the grip of famine. The announcement comes after nearly
Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel's blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive food. Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images The world's leading authority on food insecurity has confirmed a famine in Gaza. In a report published Friday, the
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at Criminal Court for a verdict for allegedly defaming the monarchy in Bangkok on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Arnun Chonmahatrakool/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Arnun Chonmahatrakool/AP/AP BANGKOK — Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a
Palestinian hamlets are seen at the E1 area, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, between the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and the occupied West Bank town of Eizariya, on Aug. 14. Nasser Nasser/AP hide caption toggle caption Nasser Nasser/AP TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement
Veronika Osintseva says she has no idea how she walked away with just a fractured leg, a chipped tooth and some bruises. Hanna Palamarenko for NPR hide caption toggle caption Hanna Palamarenko for NPR On the evening of July 31, Veronika Osintseva went to sleep in her bedroom at her family's apartment in a western
Black smoke rises from a damaged electronics manufacturing company after the Russian military hit a large American company producing civilian electronics with two missiles in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, Thursday. Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration/Anadolu via Getty Images KYIV, Ukraine — Two Russian cruise
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military is calling up 60,000 reservists ahead of its expanded military operation in Gaza City, bringing the total number of
Children cool off in a mist fountain in central Paris amid a heatwave, on Aug. 13. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images PARIS — France's latest political controversy isn't about taxes, retirement or even cuts to summer vacation. It's about air conditioning. As European summers get hotter
The demarcation line marking the border between Canada and the United States is seen in the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel in May. Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images On a typical day at Bluff Point Golf Resort in Plattsburgh, N.Y., you used to be able
M23 rebel soldiers board pickup truck in Goma on May 18, 2025. JOSPIN MWISHA/AFP hide caption toggle caption JOSPIN MWISHA/AFP KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Rwandan backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed 141 villagers in July, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, despite hopes that President Trump-backed peace talks would end
Ukrainian servicemen of the 44th artillery brigade fire a 2s22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine on Wednesday. Danylo Antoniuk/AP hide caption toggle caption Danylo Antoniuk/AP KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched one of its biggest aerial attacks of the year on Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40
Palestinian men and boys wait to receive food from a charity kitchen Gaza. Contributor/AFP hide caption toggle caption Contributor/AFP The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC. They say that famine has officially
Hamas militants arrive in an area before releasing Israeli hostage Agam Berger to a Red Cross team in Jabalia on January 30, 2025, as part of their third hostage-prisoner exchange. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty A U.N. backed panel of experts declares a famine in the northern part
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Friday. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP TORONTO — Canada is dropping many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories A U.N.-backed panel of experts on starvation has declared that Gaza is in the grip of famine. The announcement comes after nearly
Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel's blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive food. Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images The world's leading authority on food insecurity has confirmed a famine in Gaza. In a report published Friday, the
