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The Democratic Republic of Congo will join several African states willing to accept third-country nationals deported from the U.S. The program will see deportees arriving in the central African country from this month, the government said in a statement on Sunday. The U.S. will cover all the costs, it said. “This stay is not intended to become a mechanism for permanent settlement on national ...

An Israeli airstrike on Kfarhata, a village in south Lebanon, killed seven people on Sunday, including a 4-year-old child, Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement.

The royal family celebrated Easter weeks after turmoil for the monarchy. King Charles III and Queen Camilla, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and their three children, attended the annual Easter church service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, weeks after ​Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest. Mountbatten-Windsor, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and their daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie skipped the service after attending in 2025. The king's other siblings, Princess Anne and ⁠Prince Edward, were in attendance with their families.

Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

BUDAPEST – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called an emergency defense council meeting on Sunday after powerful explosives were found near a pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian gas to the country.

CAIRO – An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities said, in the latest violence to overshadow a fragile ​ceasefire amid a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Ilres Théophile, a farmer living north of Haiti's capital, said he woke in the middle of the night last Sunday to the unmistakable sound of heavy gunfire. Gran Grif, a feared gang in the area, had warned for days that it planned to attack a nearby community.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo led the world’s Catholics into Easter at a Saturday night vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and urged people not to feel numbed by the scope of the conflicts raging across the world but to work for peace.

The Iranian military said major oil producer Iraq is exempt from shipping restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz, a potentially significant move for global crude supplies. “Brotherly Iraq is exempt from any restrictions we have imposed on the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s military spokesman said in an Arabic-language video statement published by state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. The ...

Ukraine expects top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to lead a U.S. delegation to Kyiv this month, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff said, as efforts to resume peace talks get underway. The team may arrive shortly after Orthodox Easter, which is celebrated on April 12, Kyrylo Budanov told Bloomberg. While special envoy Witkoff and Kushner, President Donald Trump’s ...

For Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, it's still ski season. Meghan took to social media Thursday, April 2, to share a video of her husband and ​their son Prince Archie, 6, swerving down the slopes. "My boys. Quick learner, Archie! So proud ," she captioned the ⁠Instagram post, in which you can see the young royal ‌cruise down a small mountain, trailing ​his father.

One crew member of a U.S. fighter jet that went down in Iran amid the ongoing war has been rescued, according to a U.S. ​official.

TOKYO – Three Omani-operated tankers, a French-owned container ship and a Japanese-owned gas carrier have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since Thursday, shipping data showed, reflecting Iran’s policy to allow passage for vessels it deems friendly.

KYIV, Ukraine – A large-scale daytime Russian strike killed at least two people in Ukraine on Friday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced as an “Easter escalation,” as Moscow shifts tactics to avoid Ukrainian air defenses.