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Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance group, villagers, and media reports. The Monday night attack was carried out by a motorized paraglider, and...

Pakistani security forces raided a hideout of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border before dawn Wednesday, triggering a fierce gunbattle that left 11 soldiers and 19 militants dead, the military said. The operation took place in Orakzai district in the restive northwestern province of Khyber...

Syria’s government has declared a ceasefire between its security forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo, after at least one person was killed and four people were injured in overnight violence. Murhaf Abu Qasra, Syria’s minister of defense, announced the ceasefire on Tuesday...

An international ceasefire monitor says parties to South Sudan’s faltering peace agreement have recruited new fighters and abducted children to participate in a conflict that observers have warned could widen again into civil war. Tuesday’s statement in the capital, Juba, said South Sudan’s military...

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece along with 160 other campaigners from the Global Sumud Flotilla, having been deported by Israel. Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on X on Monday that it had expelled a total of 171 activists from the flotilla’s ships, which were intercepted...

Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has appointed Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo as prime minister, as anti-government protests once again erupted in the country. The appointment of Zafisambo, a military general, on Monday comes a week after the government was dissolved in response to the protests...

Protesters both for and against Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa rallied in the capital Quito on Sunday after a state of emergency took effect in 10 provinces. Anti-government demonstrations began two weeks ago, organized by the country’s largest Indigenous group, in response to the removal of a...

Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 Palestinians, medical sources said, despite calls from United States President Donald Trump for Israel to stop its bombardment after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war. At least...

Tens of thousands of people have marched in major cities across Europe to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, with mass rallies taking place in urban centers across the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Protests on Saturday in Spain’s second-largest city, Barcelona, as well as in Madrid...

The Israeli military has dismantled an entire humanitarian flotilla seeking to break its siege on war-ravaged Gaza, arresting hundreds of activists from dozens of vessels. Livestream video showed Israeli forces forcing their way onboard the last vessel Friday morning. The Polish-flagged Marinette...