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Middle East latest: Israel is establishing a new military corridor across Gaza

Middle East latest: Israel is establishing a new military corridor across Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas, suggesting it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacuated , from the rest o
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Judge dismisses gender bias suit by woman who lost bid to be top pastor of famed Black church

Judge dismisses gender bias suit by woman who lost bid to be top pastor of famed Black church

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a professor and minister who lost her bid to become the first woman to serve as senior pastor of New York City's prominent Abyssinian Baptist Church. The Rev.
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Netanyahu says Israel will establish a new security corridor across Gaza to pressure Hamas

Netanyahu says Israel will establish a new security corridor across Gaza to pressure Hamas

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas, suggesting it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has or
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Man gets six months in jail for vandalizing an Islamic center at Rutgers University

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to six months in jail for breaking into a Rutgers University Islamic center on the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr and vandalizing it.
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Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds

Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds

As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of the Trump administration's aggressive deportation policies.
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India's parliament set to debate controversial law on Muslim endowments

India's parliament set to debate controversial law on Muslim endowments

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India ’s parliament on Wednesday began discussing a controversial proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments in the country.
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