The Petersburg Post

Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 - By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JILL COLVIN and MICHELLE PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A beaming  Donald Trump  welcomed Israeli Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu  to their first face-to-face meeting in nearly four years on Friday, patching up a political alliance important to both men that had broken down when the Israeli leader offended Trump by being one of the first to congratulate ...

Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 - The UK government has dropped plans to challenge the right of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In May, the chief prosecutor of the ICC said there were reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu bore criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The previous Conservative UK government had indicated it planned to ...

Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 - The bodies of five Israelis killed in Hamas's Oct. 7 attack and then taken to Gaza have been recovered, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday, as families of hostages reacted angrily to news that an Israeli negotiating team has delayed its latest trip to Qatar for talks to free those remaining. Those involved in the cease-fire talks revealed that the negotiations hit a snag after Israel made new demands, ...

Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 - BEIJING — Two Chinese and two Russian long-range bombers were tracked flying over international waters near Alaska and U.S. and Canadian fighter jets were sent up in response, their joint aerospace command said. The Chinese and Russian military activity Wednesday was not seen as a threat, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD, said. China and Russia confirmed Thursday that they had ...