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CAIRO – Israeli airstrikes continued in Gaza for a second straight day on Sunday, killing at least four Palestinians, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of a breakthrough in efforts to ​implement last year's Gaza ceasefire agreement.

ISLAMABAD — All 10 climbers including celebrated mountaineer and former British Army soldier Nirmal Purja have died in an avalanche during an expedition on Broad Peak in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday. “It is with profound sorrow and a heavy heart that I extend my deepest condolences on the tragic loss of most accomplished mountaineers in the devastating avalanche on Broad Peak in the ...

CAIRO – U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Saturday he would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal could be reached quickly to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

MOSCOW – A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near an upscale restaurant in ​central Moscow on Saturday evening, the authorities said. The explosion occurred just before 10 a.m. PT, to an Italian restaurant ⁠located in one of Moscow's seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinkskaya Square, ‌the police said.

Russia launched ballistic missiles and attack drones against Ukraine’s capital overnight, killing at least nine people, while Kyiv’s forces struck oil facilities deep inside Russia territory. Local authorities confirmed a fire at an industrial site in Ufa in the Bashkortostan Republic, without specifying what had been damaged. Ufa is home to Bashneft’s refining complex, which includes three ...

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.

Ukrainian artillery crews are on track to have access to extended-range shells by the end of the summer — a high-tech tool Kyiv hopes will drastically expand the frontline “kill zone.” The first wave of deliveries will stretch 155mm cannons’ range to at least 60 kilometers (37 miles) and include laser-guided shells, Ukraine has said. More advanced munitions equipped with small ramjets could ...

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.

SYDNEY – More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government’s landmark ban on the platforms for under-16s took effect because the tech firms failed to implement effective age checks, the country’s internet regulator has found.

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.