On Friday, several council members announced their intent to introduce a resolution next week calling for a cease-fire and the end of military aid to Israel. Mayor Frey denounced the proposal.
The Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of Florida’s plan to import prescription medicines from Canada is a first. But the state still has hurdles to clear before imports could begin.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence and promised that giant pandas would return to the U.S. — specifically California — by year end.
Two explosions in southeastern Iran have killed more than 100 people and wounded over 140, according to Iran’s state media, which said Iranian officials called the blasts a “terrorist attack.”
A senior official of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has been killed in what it believes to be an Israeli strike in Lebanon's capital of Beirut. Israel has not taken responsibility.
A plane has caught fire on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport after colliding with a Japanese coast guard aircraft, officials said. Local TV reported that all occupants of the passenger plane, believed to total 379 people, got out safely.
Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.
It's the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, and could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas. But the biggest city in southern Gaza still is fiercely contested.