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Syria says Israeli strikes leave 18 dead in the biggest toll since the war in Gaza began
Syria’s health minister says the number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes there has risen to 18, with dozens more wounded More »
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Pope cheers East Timor's recovery while acknowledging a bishop's abuse scandal
Pope Francis has indirectly acknowledged the abuse scandal in East Timor involving its bishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winning independence hero More »
Vietnam storm deaths rise to 64 as a bridge collapses and flooding sweeps away a bus
A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam, raising the death toll there to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains More »
South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s
A South Korean truth commission says it found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities where thousands of so-called “vagrants” were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s More »
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel orders more evacuations in Gaza after militants fire rockets
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon More »
A capsule has been propelled through a hyperloop test tube in a step forward for the transit system
Hyperloop has achieved significant liftoff in the northern Netherlands More »
Germany expands controls at borders to stem irregular migration and extremism risks
Germany’s interior minister has ordered temporary controls at all German land borders as a response to irregular migration and to protect the country from extremist threats More »
Iranian missiles in Russia are a legitimate target, a Ukrainian official says
A senior Ukrainian official says tWestern partner countries must allow Ukraine to use weapons they have supplied to strike military warehouses inside Russia because of strong suspicions Iran has provided ballistic missiles for the Kremlin’s war effort More »
Opposition presidential candidate González flees Venezuela for asylum in Spain
Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of single-party rule More »
Algeria's president joins opponents in claiming election irregularities after being named the winner
After being declared the winner of Algeria’s election, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has joined his two challengers in criticizing the country’s election authority for announcing results that contradicted earlier turnout figures and local tallies More »
