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Hamas said it agreed to disarm as long as Israel withdraws from Gaza and agrees to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, conditions that dent the prospects of a revival in the protracted peace process. The militant group will give up heavy weaponry if Israel accepts those requirements, alongside the deployment of an administrative committee in Gaza and international security ...

The Department of Homeland Security alerted employers this week that it had officially ended humanitarian protections for about 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs that threaten to disrupt summer travel and destabilize an array of essential institutions and industries up and down the East Coast and across the Midwest.

Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily.

A Russian missile crashed in eastern Poland early on Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said.

The United Nations has issued a warning about an alarming surge in women and girls being raped in Haiti, many of them homeless after being forced out of their homes and neighborhoods by armed gangs.

The U.S. and Iran exchanged airstrikes as fighting in the five-month war flared up once again, with hostilities now spreading across the Middle East.

The death toll from the powerful earthquake in south-western Japan has risen to 28, the central government said on Thursday.

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

The Senate on Wednesday evening took another step closer to advancing a bill that would impose long-stalled sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine and extend for five more years sanctions on Iran.

Three Greek firefighters died battling blazes during high winds on the island of Crete and the mainland as wildfires spread across Europe on Wednesday after days of devastating fires in Spain and France. 

DUBAI – The U.S. and Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, saying they were responsible for drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities, prompting Iran to warn that blaming it for such attacks was a "major miscalculation". The strikes on targets inside Iraq come as Oman proposed a new regional deal aimed at resolving the conflict over the critical Strait of Hormuz, through which about a ​fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed before the war.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it had intercepted an Iranian attack on bases in the region, in what would be the first such attempted strike in days, sending crude oil prices soaring and raising fears of a return to war. “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East,” U.S. ...

The United Nations Security Council will hold an initial round of informal closed-door "straw poll" ballots on Thursday to assess support for the seven candidates currently vying to become the next head of the United Nations. The candidates, from Argentina, Chile, Costa ​Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Senegal and Uganda, are seeking to replace Antonio Guterres of Portugal when he steps down at the end of this year after two five-year terms.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Ukraine and Israel — two nations at war — at the White House on Tuesday, as Washington’s role in both conflicts reaches a critical stage. Trump’s meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came as the wars in Ukraine and Iran have recently expanded and overlapped in their ...

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he discussed Patriot air defenses and the prospects for renewed diplomacy during a meeting with President Donald Trump, although there were few public signs of progress as Kyiv seeks to shore up military capabilities against Russia. The visit to the White House on Tuesday came as Zelenskyy seeks vital U.S. weapons to strengthen his ...

Dozens of people have been injured in a magnitude-7.1 earthquake in south-western Japan, with public broadcaster NHK reporting on Tuesday at least 50 injured in Kumamoto prefecture on the main island of Kyushu, which was particularly badly affected.

LIMA, Peru – Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's president on Tuesday, becoming the latest in a string of conservative leaders elected across Latin America by voters frustrated by crime, weak economic growth and political instability. The 51-year-old daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori is Peru's first-ever elected female head of state.