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An airstrike killed the Hamas official and family members in a refugee camp for Palestinians, the group said. A separat…

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Israel’s strike on Hassan Nasrallah was the culmination of several startling moves that suggest the Israeli prime minis…

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World leaders are urging a pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel’s prime minister, who will…

The Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon, had mostly been spared over 11 months of war. But The New Yor…

At least 46 died in a ceremony that involves bathing in local rivers and streams in Bihar State, where recent rains had…

The militant group is a dominant force in the country, and officials have struggled for decades to limit its power. f…

Videos from Tulkarm and Jenin show bulldozers destroying infrastructure and businesses, as well as soldiers impeding lo…

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S. Iswaran, the former transport minister, had maintained his innocence on the corruption charge for months but on Tues…

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one no…

Lebanon’s Education Ministry ordered some schools to close amid warnings from Israel that it was intensifying strikes a…

Israel’s intensifying strikes show how determined it is to stop Hezbollah’s cross-border attacks — and how far it is fr…

Francis, 87, is scheduled to visit Belgium and Luxembourg, meeting with sexual abuse survivors, within weeks of returni…

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An overnight barrage included around 150 rockets, cruise missiles and drones, Israel’s military said. Air defenses inte…

At least 129 people died when inmates tried to escape from Makala Prison, where conditions are abysmal and overcrowding…

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Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Alberta, Canada, spent nearly 2,000 hours building an operational hovercraft from salva…

The president will join the leaders of Australia, India and Japan to announce a new initiative for reducing cervical ca…

His comments reflect an apparent toughening of his views on an issue that could reshape the diplomatic map of the Middl…

Anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon caused injuries, Israel’s public broadcaster reported. The Israeli military said …

People across the country were avoiding their cellphones and unplugging baby monitors and laptops, after two days of at…

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil …

The funeral of Bishop Eamonn Casey in 2017 seemed to draw a line under his scandalous affair years before. But this sum…

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, gave the most influential portfolios to nominees from F…

The West African country’s armed forces said the assault, on a school for military police, was carried out by terrorist…

Moscow’s troops have retaken a few villages in a border area that Kyiv’s forces invaded last month and are also advanci…

The leader of the governing party said the country should apologize for a conflict for which many Georgians blame Mosco…

David Lin had tried to open a Christian training center in Beijing. The United States considered him one of three Ameri…

The visit by the adviser, Amos Hochstein, comes as cross-border clashes between Israel’s military and the powerful Leba…

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An inquiry into the deaths of three Israeli hostages determined that they probably died as a result of a military airst…

Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. fro…

The rare attack was an illustration of the evolving conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Iranian proxies. f…

The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police ha…

The father of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a dual citizen of Turkey and the United States, said that Washington had not done enou…

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Ukrainian soldiers and military analysts say that Ukraine is largely holding on to land it seized in its incursion into…

The festival canceled the screenings of “Russians at War,” which has been criticized as Kremlin propaganda. The filmmak…

The increasingly bitter dispute has not just affected cease-fire talks but also destabilized a once-strong security par…

Holding an inquiry has become one of the British government’s go-to responses to outrageous harm. But that approach can…

President Biden has refused to allow Ukraine to use long-range Western missiles on Russian military targets, but he app…

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Prime Minister Robert Fico has purged prosecutors, cultural officials, journalists and others he believes fueled “hatre…

The war in Gaza merited a few scant mentions in the presidential debate. Here’s a look at where Vice President Kamala H…

In his first extensive remarks on the death of Aysenur Eygi, the U.S. president called for accountability from Israel. …

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The U.N. said that Israeli forces held staff members for more than eight hours. The Israeli military said that it had i…

Residents, already forced to flee their homes by intense bombardment, want to avoid becoming a target for Israeli force…

Ali Mohamed Kibao was beaten and acid had been poured on his face, according to an autopsy, his party said. from NYT …

Six hostages who were found dead in Gaza recently had been held in narrow tunnels and suffered from malnutrition, famil…

Russia appears to be trying to cut off Ukrainian soldiers around the strategic city of Pokrovsk, a focal point of the w…

Syria blamed Israel for what appeared to be one of the deadliest waves of attacks in the country in months. Israel did …

Syria blamed Israel for what appeared to be one of the deadliest waves of attacks in the country in months. Israel did …

A falling-out between former political allies in Montenegro has complicated the country’s efforts to join the European …

In a country where vacationers are a keystone of the economy, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is embracing a Europea…

Hundreds of propaganda balloons ferrying trash have landed in South Korea in recent days, where officials say they typi…

After Tajiks were charged with a deadly attack in Moscow, the country has cracked down on signs of Islam. But experts s…

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Residents were taking stock of destruction from the 10-day Israeli raid, one of the deadliest in years in the occupied …

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The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the f…

For many trans women living on the fringes of the nation’s society, the Catholic Church is a haven, and Pope Francis a …

Repair technicians at the Paris Games fix everything from bent wheelchair frames to broken sunglasses. from NYT > …

A South African beauty pageant contestant with Nigerian heritage was forced to withdraw from the competition after her …

The series, based on a 1999 plane hijacking, prompted backlash on social media. Critics claimed it wrongly portrayed th…

Repeated air-raid alerts have punctuated the search through the rubble in Poltava, in eastern Ukraine, after an attack …

In its first two days, the campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Gazan children has been more successful than expected, said Ri…

In strikes and protests, many Israelis are pushing their government to prioritize the release of hostages above the imm…

More than 60 living hostages, and the bodies of about 35 others taken captive on Oct. 7, are still in Gaza, the Israeli…

The union, which predates Israel’s founding, led a strike last year that helped force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

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Russian state media and local officials report fires and explosions at a number of facilities caused by drone attacks, …

Ukraine gambled that its move into Russia would draw Moscow’s forces away from the town of Pokrovsk. It didn’t happen. …

The United States condemned the episode near Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea and reaffirmed its defense treaty with…