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2 months ago | 
postguam.com | Claire Parker |Heba Farouk Mahfouz |Hajar Harb |Adam Taylor
JERUSALEM - An influx of aid to the Gaza Strip during the first days of the ceasefire was temporarily interrupted on Thursday after clashes broke out between Hamas and organized looters near the main crossing in the enclave’s south, according to residents, transport workers and video footage of the gunfight.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
postguam.com | Adam Taylor
Israel is investing millions of dollars to build more heavy weapons domestically over growing concerns about its dependence on arms imports from the United States and other Western countries - even as the flow of arms from those countries continues mostly unabated. But experts say that Israel’s reliance on the one country it turns to most for weapons - the United States - would be hard to shake, especially as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
nationalnewswatch.com | Adam Taylor
As Canada braces for the incoming Trump administration’s threat of a 25% across-the-board tariff, the options before us are limited and far from ideal. We can hope that ongoing measures at the border, combined with a reminder of the highly integrated, mutually beneficial nature of our economies, might lead the president-elect to abandon the idea. Failing that, retaliation with strategically targeted tariffs could be on the table, followed by negotiations to settle the dispute down the road.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
afr.com | Anika Seth |Adam Taylor |Victoria Bisset |Sammy Westfall
Reports have estimated that Hezbollah has as many as 50,000 fighters, with more in reserve, and the group has a powerful arsenal with up to 150,000 rockets and missiles. However, it also provides civil services including school and medical centres, and even museums and construction companies, and it has participated in Lebanese elections since 1992.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Sarah Dadouch |Jennifer Hassan |Adam Taylor |Claire Parker
Humanitarian groups said they were struggling to deliver aid in Gaza amid looting of their vehicles and the disruption caused by Israeli military operations in the Strip, including a surprise raid in the Nuseirat refugee camp Saturday that led to the rescue of four hostages but which Palestinians said caused hundreds of deaths. The World Food Program said Sunday that it had paused operations on a U.S.-backed pier in Gaza after the raid in Nuseirat in Central Gaza.
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May 9, 2024 | 
adn.com | Adam Taylor |Adela Suliman
Israel has received more U.S. military aid - and more U.S. aid of any type - than any other country since World War II. That assistance has long been a matter of ironclad, bipartisan near-consensus. But in recent months, it has come under mounting scrutiny, including from some Democratic legislators, amid the emergence of rifts between the United States and Israel over Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza - in which U.S.-provided weapons are in widespread use.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Michael Miller |Kelsey Ables |Ellen Francis |Adam Taylor
Soon after learning of his friend’s death, Josh Phelps saw the gruesome images of an Israeli attack that World Central Kitchen said killed his friend and six others delivering aid in Gaza. “It was shocking,” said Phelps, a former WCK colleague of Australian aid worker Lalzawmi Frankcom. He had just texted Frankcom – known as Zomi – the day before, when photos of the pair delivering food to a Native American reservation in Pine Ridge, S.D., popped up on his phone.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Adam Taylor
Demolition of key crossing by vessel may be symptom of disruption to global shippingBig ships can cause big problems. In 2021, huge container ship Ever Given twisted sideways in the Suez Canal, blocking the crucial trade passage between Europe and Asia. For nearly a week, this firmly lodged ship captivated a pandemic-weary world that responded with wild theories and wilder memes. But there was a real-world impact as well: The trade traversing the canal was worth up to $10bn (€9.25bn) a day.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Niha Masih |Joanna Slater |Adam Taylor
Three American citizens have been detained by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank and Gaza this week, according to family members, part of a wave of military arrests that advocates say have swept up hundreds of Palestinians since Oct. 7. Palestinian American Samaher Esmail, 46, was detained on Monday near the Silwad village area in the West Bank, according to accounts from family members.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
finans.dk | Adam Taylor
11/08/2023 KL. 11:00 For abonnenter The United States and China are the world’s two most important economic powers. But they face polar opposite economic problems.
