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17.05.2024 19:01 The International Court of Justice began public hearings on Thursday stemming from South Africa's recent request for emergency provisional measures to immediately halt Israeli operations under way in Rafah, in southern Gaza, where more than one million Palestinians were sheltering during the seven-month-long war in the besieged enclave.

17.05.2024 19:01 UN chief António Guterres reiterated his warning on Thursday against a full-scale assault on Rafah, just as aid teams issued increasingly urgent appeals for safe passage throughout Gaza, to replenish dangerously low stocks of lifesaving supplies.

17.05.2024 19:01 International and domestic pressure is mounting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish a strategic endgame for the Israel-Hamas war that would tie Israeli military gains to a political solution for the Palestinian enclave.

17.05.2024 19:01 The U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, Japanese Government officials and leaders from the U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force bid farewell to USS Ronald Reagan before the ship departed Yokosuka, Japan, for the last time as the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier, May 16.

17.05.2024 19:01 The U.S. military says a temporary pier is now anchored to the shore of Gaza, the final step in completing a sea route to distribute aid to 2 million Palestinians affected by the Israel-Hamas war.

17.05.2024 19:01 The Joint Logistics, Over-the-Shore humanitarian aid corridor is in place in Gaza and will shortly begin funneling supplies to civilians in the region, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Central Command officials said today.

17.05.2024 19:01 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the NATO Support and Procurement Agency of Alliance Ground Surveillance Program Equipment and Support and related equipment for an estimated cost of $250.2 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

17.05.2024 19:01 Israel's defense minister Yoav Gallant said additional Israeli troops would "enter Rafah" as military operations escalate in southern Gaza, in remarks issued by his office Thursday.

17.05.2024 19:01 A group of 20 Taiwanese lawmakers is set to arrive at disputed Taiping island in the South China Sea on Saturday on a visit likely to provoke protests from some of Taiwan's neighbors.

17.05.2024 19:01 A new team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant today, crossing the frontline to reach the site as part of the IAEA's indispensable mission to help prevent a nuclear accident during the armed conflict, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

17.05.2024 19:01 Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his strengthening partnership with China during a state visit to Beijing where Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to play a constructive role in helping Europe return to "peace and stability."

17.05.2024 19:01 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the 2024 National Strategy for Combatting Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing , which provides a blueprint of the U.S. government's goals, objectives, and priorities to disrupt and prevent illicit financial activities. The 2024 Strategy addresses the key risks from the 2024 National Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing Risk Assessments

17.05.2024 19:01 Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Friday.

17.05.2024 19:01 The Justice Department unsealed charges, seizures, and other court-authorized actions to disrupt the illicit revenue generation efforts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

17.05.2024 19:01 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is imposing sanctions on two Russian individuals and three Russia-based entities for facilitating weapons transfers between Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .