As the war enters its 663rd day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Monday, December 18, 2023.
Fighting
Ukraine’s Air Force said it destroyed 20 Russian drones and a missile – nine of them in the southern...
Thousands of displaced people have fled the formerly safe city of Wad Madani in Sudan, as the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reaches the city.
Paramilitary forces established a base in the east...
Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila has called for an “urgent probe” after Israeli forces were accused of crushing Palestinians, including wounded patients, using bulldozers in the yard of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
On Saturday, doctors and other...
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, International Organization for Migration’s Libya office quotes survivors as saying the boat was carrying about 86 people.At least 61 refugees and migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a “tragic” shipwreck off Libya, the...
Alex Batty, who went missing aged 11 during a holiday in Spain, has been found in France after six years of nomadism.A British teenager who went missing six years ago and was found this week in France is...
Two months of war have produced a mountain of grim images from Gaza. Plus, the screws are tightening on Palestinian Israelis.Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment;...
A good result on China’s annual national civil service exam is a requirement for any Chinese candidate who wants to be considered for the tens of thousands of vacant civil service jobs that the government seeks to fill...
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children have been directly affected by Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip, ranging from displacement to being wounded or killed.
Since October 7, more than 10,000 children have been killed or are lost under...
Financial Stability Oversight Council says emerging technology poses ‘safety-and-soundness risks’ as well as benefits.Financial regulators in the United States have named artificial intelligence (AI) as a risk to the financial system for the first time.
In its latest annual...
