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US military says first aid shipment has been driven across a newly built US pier into the Gaza Strip
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time More »
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Putin says Russia wants a buffer zone in Ukraine's Kharkiv but has no plans to capture the city
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but has no plans to capture the city More »
Putin concludes a trip to China by emphasizing its strategic and personal ties to Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin is concluding a two-day visit to China by emphasizing the countries' strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they seek to present an alternative to U.S. global influence More »
Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on
Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group is introducing new tactics and weapons against Israel as the war in Gaza drags on and Israeli troops enter parts of the southern city of Rafah More »
Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ‘expansionism’
Russia and China helped each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press More »
French police fatally shoot a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue
France’s Interior Minister says that a man who was shot and killed by police after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen was an Algerian national who’d sought medical treatment in France and wasn’t flagged as a suspected extremist More »
North Korea test-fires suspected missiles a day after US and South Korea conduct a fighter jet drill
North Korea has fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast a day after South Korea and the U.S. flew powerful fighter jets in a drill that the North views as a major security threat More »
Mexico's cartel violence haunts civilians in the lead-up to June elections
Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass shooting claimed the lives of eight men More »
Vatican revamps norms to evaluate visions of Mary as it adapts to internet age and combats hoaxers
The Vatican has radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena More »
Yemen's Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone as footage shows wreckage
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone More »
