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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, May 28, that he had ordered the country's military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October. "We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60 percent of...

For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0—a rare show of unanimity—to adopt a bill...

At least 19 people have been killed and 58 wounded in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to Lebanese health authorities, as Israel intensifies its assault in the south and issues mass displacement orders across the region. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Thursday that an Israeli air strike...

At least 52 guerrilla fighters have been killed in clashes between two rival armed groups vying for territorial control of a strategic cocaine production and trafficking region in southeast Colombia, a faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) involved in the fighting has said...

Hungary’s parliament voted on Wednesday to remain a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reversing a decision by the previous government of Viktor Orbán to withdraw from the global tribunal. Orbán’s government announced last year that Hungary would quit the ICC, the world’s only...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday that the trial of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for crimes against humanity will start on Nov. 30. According to prosecutors, the ex-leader is responsible for dozens of murders, allegedly overseeing deadly anti-drug...

A group led by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Philippines launched a fact-finding body Wednesday to document accounts of witnesses and other details of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody anti-drugs crackdown that the government can use to prosecute law enforcers. Duterte, who ended his stormy six...

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed 31 people on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, as Israel said it was intensifying attacks despite a truce in its war with Hezbollah. The Iran-backed group, meanwhile, said it faced Israeli troops entering the southern town of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) trained Colombian mercenaries before sending them to fight alongside a notorious paramilitary group in Sudan’s devastating war, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday. Its new report is the latest by an international rights group accusing the wealthy Gulf monarchy of...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday, killing at least 23 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said. The attack happened in an area where security forces are...