(BBC News) Israel says it will allow two fuel trucks a day to enter the Gaza Strip, after pressure to do so from the U.S.
A U.S. State Department official says around 140,000 litres of fuel will be allowed in every two days.
Most of that is intended for trucks delivering aid, as well as supporting the UN in providing water and sanitation, the official said.
The rest is for mobile phone and internet services, which had...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for Israel to stop killing babies, earning a furious response from Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trudeau said on Tuesday that the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip must end. Netanyahu pushed back, insisting that Hamas is responsible for civilian deaths as Israeli forces continue to batter the enclave.
“I urge the government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint,” Trudeau...
(BBC News) The U.S. and China have agreed to resume military-to-military communications in an effort to ease rising tensions, President Joe Biden says.
"We're back to direct, open, clear communications," he said following a rare meeting with China's President Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday.
It was the first time the pair had spoken in person in more than a year.
Biden said both leaders had agreed to establish a direct line of communication with one another.
At...
(BBC News) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday released its first ever set of ethics rules governing its nine justices.
The nine-page "code of conduct" comes as the most powerful legal body in the U.S. is under increasing scrutiny following recent news reports of gifts and holiday arrangements lavished on several of its jurists.
While federal judges on lower courts have been governed by an ethical code since 1973, this marks the first time the country's...
(BBC News) A tentative deal between actors and Hollywood studios includes AI safeguards and requirements for intimacy co-ordinators on set.
Actors' union SAG-AFTRA announced some details of its agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers (AMPTP) on Friday.
It said its national board had voted to back the agreement with 86% approval.
It will be sent to the union's 160,000 members for final ratification next week.
But actors are able to return to work immediately.
The...
(BBC News) Israel's defence minister Yoav Gallant has told journalists that the military is undertaking "localized, pinpoint measures" in Gaza to enable Palestinians to flee the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas.
However, he did not directly address a question regarding the comments from a White House spokesman saying there would be daily four-hour pauses in northern Gaza.
He repeated the Israeli government line that the war would continue until Hamas is toppled and hostages held...
(BBC News) Europe's Euclid telescope is ready to begin its mission to help us understand the greatest mysteries in the Universe.
Exquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities to be exceptional.
Over the next six years, Euclid will survey a third of the heavens to get some clues about the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.
These unknown "influencers" appear to control the shape and expansion of everything that is out there.
Researchers concede, however,...
(BBC News) Ukraine's military chiefs are facing growing criticism over a recent Russian missile strike that is believed to have caused heavy Ukrainian casualties.
Ukrainian media and Russian military bloggers say more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed at Friday's award ceremony near the southern frontlines.
Ukraine's military has not yet given casualty figures of what it says was a "tragedy" in the Zaporizhzhia region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incident "could have been avoided."
"Criminal proceedings have been...
Summary of today’s news out of Garza courtesy of BBC News:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there will be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza until all Israeli hostages are released.
He gave a televised address after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who has called for humanitarian pauses in the fighting to help protect civilians.
Israel has struck an ambulance in Gaza it said was being used by Hamas operatives.
The Hamas-run health...
(BBC News) Donald Trump's two eldest sons took the stand in a New York court, testifying in a civil fraud trial that threatens to engulf the family's property empire.
Prosecutors say Eric and Donald Trump Jr played key roles in the Trump Organization's efforts to exaggerate its wealth and falsify records.
In court, the brothers denied wrongdoing and sought to shift the blame onto the company's accountants.
Their sister Ivanka is expected to testify later this month.
The judge...
