CHICAGO (WGN) — Two men are in custody after a 63-year-old man was found unresponsive, bound with duct tape and an extension cord, and later died in Norwood Park Sunday night. Chicago police sources tell WGN News two men are in police custody and both are migrants — one from Venezuela and the other from […]

The United Nations Palestinian aid agency UNRWA said on Thursday that its operations in Gaza and the West Bank were ongoing despite an Israeli ban. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said that UNRWA is continuing to provide aid to the communities it serves and its clinics across the occupied West Bank, including

The Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement has officially confirmed the death of former Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, some six months after an Israeli airstrike. In addition, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida also stated Thursday for the first time that Marwan Issa, the third-highest-ranking Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, is dead. Israel’s mili

Thousands of people protested in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Thursday after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) helped to pass a controversial motion in the German parliament demanding hard-line migration reforms. Police said some 5,000 demonstrators gathered, calling for politicians to “defend the right to asylum” and

German Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf appealed in an open letter on Thursday to conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz not to align his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to pass legislation. Merz, who is widely viewed as the frontrunner to replace current Chancellor Olaf Scholz after upcoming elections