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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Two Palestinians were killed overnight in Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank. 31 babies have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital Israeli airstrikes kill scores at a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. President Biden said Saturday the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank […]

More than 2,400 Ukrainian children have been taken to Belarus since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to new research published Thursday by Yale University. The findings by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health are the most extensive yet about Belarus’ alleged role in Russia’s forced relocation of Ukrainian children. The […]

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigerian experts are hopeful that deals reached last week with Saudi Arabia will boost local oil production and help grow the economy. The deals included a pledge by Saudi officials to fix Nigeria’s four broken oil refineries, which haven’t worked in years, forcing Africa’s second-largest oil producer to import all of its fuel. […]

Israeli soldiers are continuing operations in and around Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, which they raided early Wednesday in pursuit of Hamas militants just minutes after warning health ministry officials of the impending operation. The Israel Defense Forces described its operation as “precise and targeted.” Israel says Hamas used the hospital as a command center, and patients […]

The Ukraine’s president is saying Russia was experiencing more losses there than it did in nearby Bakhmut, another war hotspot. In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to announce his intention to run in the 2024 presidential election campaign during his annual press conference and public phone-in, the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence said […]

The United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed a third round of sanctions targeting the Palestinian militant group Hamas, trying to curb Iranian funding of the group and one of its allies, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, following their shock attack last month on Israel. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement the two […]

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Nepal’s government decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying Monday it was disrupting “social harmony” in the country. The announcement was made following a Cabinet meeting. Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud said the app would be banned immediately. “The government has decided to ban TikTok as it was necessary to […]

A Ukrainian military officer allegedly coordinated last year’s attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, according to The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources in Ukraine and Europe. No one has taken responsibility for the September 2022 explosions, off the Danish island of Bornholm, that damaged three out of four offshore natural gas pipelines running under […]

LONDON. — London police have stepped up efforts to ensure a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday remains peaceful following a week of political sparring over whether the demonstration should go ahead on the weekend Britain honors its war dead. More than 2,000 officers, some called in from surrounding forces, will be on the streets of the […]

 Somalia’s government warns that flooding which has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people may turn into the country’s worst humanitarian disaster in decades, unless Somalis and the international community act quickly. “The situation is dire, and the extent of the human impact of the floods is rearing its ugly face. We are calling for the […]