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Screen capture from video on soldiers in Congo, May 19, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 19, 2024, 2:26 pm
Congolese army says it foiled coup during capital shootout; three dead
Gun battle erupts in Kinshasa between armed men in uniform and guards of top politician; military says several foreigners among those arrested
By CHRISTINA MALKIA and Chinedu Asadu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a press conference on the planned construction of a new railway line from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to the city of Eilat, in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 4, 2024, 12:00 am
Israel denies it is talking to other countries about absorbing Gazan immigrants
Senior official pushes back on Zman Yisrael report Jerusalem talking to Congo and others, says Smotrich can’t carry out controversial idea; cabinet to talk post-war Gaza on Thursday
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative -- Palestinians cross to the Egyptian side of the border crossing with the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
January 3, 2024, 12:09 pm
Israel in talks with Congo and other countries on Gaza ‘voluntary migration’ plan
Senior official says Jerusalem working on postwar resettlement of Palestinians from Strip; some ministers tout Saudi Arabia as destination for Gazans seeking construction work
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Illustrative: A miner digs out soil which will later be filtered for traces of cassiterite, the major ore of tin, at Nyabibwe mine, in eastern Congo, August 17, 2012. (AP/Marc Hofer)
June 20, 2020, 6:43 am
UN experts say gold from Congo going to armed groups, criminals
Report says Israeli instructors among foreign nationals providing training to Congolese military in violation of arms embargo
By Edith M. Lederer
Peace Price laureates Nadia Murad (left) and Dr. Denis Mukwege at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo Town Hall, Oslo, December 10, 2018 (Berit Roald / NTB scanpix via AP)
December 10, 2018, 6:14 pm
Nobel Peace winners urge global action against sexual violence
Dr. Denis Mukwege of Congo and Nadia Murad of Iraq call for repercussions for perpetrators, reparations for victims
By david keyton and Jim Heintz
Dan Gertler sits in his office in Ramat Gan on September 18, 2000. (AP/Mati Stein)
December 22, 2017, 3:34 am
US sanctions Israeli mining mogul Gertler over Congo deals
Treasury includes billionaire accused of corrupt business arrangements with DRC president on list of 13 individuals punished for graft and human rights abuses
By ToI Staff and AP
A Yemeni child receives treatment at a hospital in the Yemeni coastal city of Hodeidah on November 11, 2017. (AFP/Abdo Hyder)
December 1, 2017, 2:27 pm
UN appeals for record $22.5 billion in global aid
Third of money needed to help those affected by Syrian civil war; 10.8 million Yemenis in dire need of help
By Nina Larson
Dan Gertler (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 7, 2017, 5:45 pm
Israeli diamond mogul named in Paradise Papers
Recently leaked documents on offshore holdings reveal Dan Gertler took loan from mining giant Glencore to secure rights in Congo
By Shoshanna Solomon
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, September 15, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
October 17, 2017, 2:47 am
Haley slams UN for electing Congo to rights council despite abuses
US ambassador says HRC’s support for rights violators proves the 47-nation body ‘lacks credibility and must be reformed in order to be saved’
By AP and ToI Staff
This file photo taken on November 15, 2014 shows a health worker wearing protective equipment giving a drink to a young Ebola patient at Kenama treatment center run by the Red Cross in Sierra Leone. (Francisco Leong/AFP)
May 12, 2017, 10:31 pm
Ebola outbreak reported in remote part of DR Congo
Three people dead so far; health minister urges population ‘not to panic’; outbreak is first in three years
By AFP
In this Sunday, March 21, 2010 file photo, shafts of sunlight filtering through the forest canopy strike smoke from fires burning outside family huts at an Mbuti pygmy hunting camp in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell,File)
December 6, 2015, 6:10 am
At climate talks, African nations pledge to restore forests
Tropical deforestation said to produce 15 percent of carbon emissions; states seek to restore 386,000 square miles by 2030
By LYNSEY CHUTEL
A Spanish UNIFIL peacekeeper drives an armored vehicle in the Lebanese town of Adaisseh, near the border with Israel, on January 19, 2015. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)
March 26, 2015, 10:00 am
UN pushing Europe to bolster peacekeeping effort from Congo to Golan
US also looking for allies to contribute more blue helmets to protect against threats around world
By Cara Anna
Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci (seated) with Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino (left) after he received the Peace Summit Award from Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (2nd left) and Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Tawakkol Karman (right) at the end of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome, December 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Tiziana Fabi)
December 14, 2014, 9:37 pm
Nobel peace winners fear ‘new, more dangerous Cold War’
Committee highlights Israeli-Arab conflict, religious extremism among host of issues hindering stability
By AFP
Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, in an undated screenshot. (Screen capture YouTube)
From the WebJanuary 23, 2014, 5:49 am
Israeli billionaire sells Congo oil rights for 300 times purchase price
Reuters: Dan Gertler’s Fleurette Group says deal is beneficial for the cash-strapped central African nation
A view of the Nile River. (CC-BY plusgood, Flickr.com)
June 13, 2013, 6:29 pm
Vowing to build dam, Ethiopia ratifies new Nile water pact
Cairo loudly opposes move that replaces colonial-era deal giving lion’s share of water to Egypt and Sudan
By Kirubel Tadesse
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