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This Is the Happiest Nation on Earth
This Is the Happiest
Nation on Earth
Mar 20, 2025 12:50 PM CDT

This Is the Happiest Nation on Earth

Finland tops World Happiness Report for 8th straight year; US comes in at No. 24

(Newser) - Feeling down in the dumps? Maybe it's your country. Unless you're in Finland, which just took the top spot on this year's World Happiness Report for the eighth year straight, reports CNN . The annual ranking used Gallup World Poll data from more than 140 countries around the...

Beneath Rubble in Gaza, a Tiny 25-Day-Old Orphan

Infant survives Israeli strike that killed her parents, brother

(Newser) - As rescuers dug through the remains of a collapsed apartment building in Gaza's Khan Younis on Thursday, they could hear the cries of a baby from underneath the rubble. Suddenly, calls of "God is great!" rang out. A man sprinted out of the wreckage carrying a living...

Israel Launches Big Strike on Gaza, Shattering Ceasefire

More than 400 reported killed amid stalled peace talks with Hamas

(Newser) - Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, the first major strikes since a ceasefire with Hamas took effect in January. The strikes killed more than 400 people and wounded over 500, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the...

Air Canada Is Sorry About Israel Problem on Maps

'Display issue' labeled entire area as Palestinian Territories

(Newser) - Air Canada has apologized for an in-flight display map that showed a Middle East without Israel. The airline deactivated the map display in its Boeing 737 fleet this week after a passenger complained that the map labeled the area as "Palestinian Territories," CNN reports. In response to a...

Israel Has Cut Off Power to Gaza, Officials Say
Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza
Mar 10, 2025 7:55 AM CDT

Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza

Hamas slams the latest 'starvation policy' move

(Newser) - Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Israel last week suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million Palestinians, an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest...

Muslim Leaders Reject Trump's Plan for Palestinians

Trump said he wants to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population

(Newser) - Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by President Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and instead backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead. The AP reports that the foreign ministers gathered...

US Doubles Down: Palestinians Need to Leave

US, Israel reject new Gaza reconstruction plan endorsed by Arab League

(Newser) - The White House has swiftly rejected a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without the forced displacement of 2.1 million Palestinians. President Trump's plan for a US takeover of Gaza that would permanently remove residents sparked outrage and claims of ethnic cleansing last month, prompting Egypt to suggest...

Hamas Official: Our Raid May Have Been a Mistake

Rare concession by Mousa Abu Marzouk is quickly countered by the group itself

(Newser) - A top Hamas official made the rarest of concessions in an interview with the New York Times : Mousa Abu Marzouk suggested the group's infamous 2023 raid into Israel might have been a mistake. Referring to Israel's massive response in Gaza, he said, "If it was expected that...

Israel Alleges Ceasefire 'Violation of Utmost Severity'

Says the mother of Hamas' youngest hostages was not among the bodies returned

(Newser) - Hamas said it returned the bodies of the two youngest Israeli hostages , as well as their mother and an unrelated adult, on Thursday. But now Israel's military says forensic testing of the remains shows that the body of Shiri Bibas, the mother of young Ariel and Kfir Bibas, was...

US Man Targeting Palestinians Allegedly Shoots 2 Israelis

There are calls for hate crime charges against Mordechai Brafman in Miami Beach shooting

(Newser) - A Jewish man in Miami Beach allegedly tried to kill two men he believed were Palestinians, but turned out to be from Israel. Surveillance video allegedly shows driver Mordechai Brafman, 27, doing a U-turn and exiting his truck before using a semiautomatic handgun to fire 17 times on a passing...

Report: Hamas Will Hand Over Hostages' Bodies This Week

Followed by 3, or maybe 6, living hostages this weekend, sources say

(Newser) - Israel is preparing to receive the bodies of four hostages from Hamas Thursday, an Israeli security official tells news outlets including the Times of Israel , the Jerusalem Post , and Reuters . In addition, sources tell NBC News Israel and Hamas are in talks to double the number of living hostages released...

Hamas Swaps 3 Hostages for 300 Palestinians

The two sides have made 6 exchanges since the ceasefire began

(Newser) - Hamas-led militants released three male Israeli hostages Saturday, and Israeli forces freed hundreds of prisoners in return, in the latest indication that a fragile ceasefire that had teetered in recent days is holding. The AP reports militants in the southern Gaza Strip paraded the three hostages before a crowd before...

Palestinian Leader Says He'll Comply With Trump Law

Mahmoud Abbas says martyr payments will be ended in hope that US aid will come

(Newser) - For years, the US government has pressured the Palestinian Authority overseeing parts of the West Bank to end a program that pays stipends to families of Palestinians involved in attacks on Israel. Dubbed "pay for slay" by Israelis, the program is now getting an overhaul as the Palestinian administration,...

After Trump's Ultimatum, Netanyahu Issues His Own

Threatens to end ceasefire if terms are not met by Hamas

(Newser) - It seems Israel might be on board with US President Trump's Hamas ultimatum . Trump gave the militant group until noon Saturday to release all remaining Israeli hostages or, he warned, "all hell" would break loose. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Hamas that same deadline, the...

Latest Israeli Hostages to Be Released Are Emaciated

The men are reportedly in the worst shape of any of the hostages freed during the ceasefire

(Newser) - Hamas-led militants released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli civilian men they held for the past 16 months on Saturday, and Israel was freeing dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile agreement that has paused the war in the Gaza Strip, the AP reports. The three were among about 250...

Netanyahu's Gift to Trump: a Golden Pager

Gift celebrates 'exploding pager' attack on Hezbollah members

(Newser) - President Trump has a very unusual souvenir of his Tuesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader gave Trump a golden pager, a reference to the exploding pagers that targeted Hezbollah members in Lebanon in September. The blasts killed at least 37 people and injured thousands, including...

Trump Reiterates 'Spectacular' Plan to Take Over Gaza

He says US would work with developers to build the region into a glam destination

(Newser) - On Wednesday, some in the Trump administration seemed to walk back the president's audacious proposal of a US takeover of Gaza . But on Thursday, Trump himself doubled down on aspects of the plan, reports the BBC . "The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by...

6 More Israeli Hostages to Be Freed This Week

Including Arbel Yehoud, civilian at the center of Israel-Hamas disagreement

(Newser) - Six more Israeli hostages will be released by Hamas this week, including Arbel Yehoud, the civilian that Israel said was supposed to have been released Saturday . Israel vowed not to let Palestinians start returning to the northern part of Gaza until she was freed, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later...

Next Group of Hostages to Be Freed: Female Soldiers

Set for release Saturday are 4 young women captured from Nahal Oz military base on Oct. 7

(Newser) - Last Sunday, the first three Israeli hostages were released by Hamas under a newly negotiated ceasefire with Israel. Now, the names of four Israeli soldiers, all women, who are set to be freed this coming weekend have been announced, reports the AP . The soldiers were stationed at the Nahal Oz...

After Ceasefire, Hamas Emerges in 'Snap of a Finger'

Militants come out into the light, impart a degree of law and order amid ceasefire

(Newser) - It will take years to rebuild Gaza's critical infrastructure, as nearly 60% of all buildings have been damaged or destroyed, per CNN . Hamas, not so much. Militants rallied within hours of the ceasefire going into effect Sunday, riding through the streets in clean uniforms and dust-free pickup trucks, waving...

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