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Misery deepens in Gaza's Rafah as Israeli troops press operation
Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafah More »
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Russian assault opens new front, diverting Ukraine forces as Western aid trickles in
Ukrainian officials and commanders say Russian troops are locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers in the embattled town of Vovchansk and are pushing ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front to put pressure on overstretched Ukrainian forces More »
Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services
Violence is traumatizing Haitian children More »
A town in western Canada prepares for a possible 'last stand' as wildfires rage in British Columbia
Fire experts and officials are warning that an intense wildfire could reach a town in western Canada this week More »
Reports of army killing of villagers in Myanmar supported by photos and harrowing tale of a survivor
Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar have been supported in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings More »
Families still looking for missing loved ones after devastating Afghanistan floods killed scores
Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead More »
Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere
After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film More »
Sleepy far-flung towns in the Philippines will host US forces returning to counter China threats
After withdrawing from two huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, American forces are returning and building a new presence in nine sites on Philippine bases under a 2014 defense pact to counter China's increasingly assertive actions More »
Collapsing billboard kills 3 and hurts 59 in heavy rains in Mumbai. Scores might be trapped
A billboard has collapsed and killed three people and injured 59 in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, in thunderstorms and heavy rain More »
Notorious people smuggler wanted in Europe arrested in northern Iraq
One of Europe’s most notorious human smugglers has been arrested in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, security officials said More »
