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A late-night breakthrough occurred in talks attended by envoys of both outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza. Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he had championed was...

Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the backing of more than half of parliamentarians.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies have been targeting Masalit civilians in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, since April 15, 2023. A United Nations panel of experts found in January 2024 that the RSF and allied militias killed up to 15,000 people in El-Geneina. Nearly a year later...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC). The vote signals a protest of the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. The vote was 243 to 140 in favor of the...

Chad's government has said security forces had thwarted an alleged effort to destabilize the country, after a group of people attacked the presidential palace in the capital, N'Djamena. "An attempt at destabilization has been foiled. Nineteen people died and six were injured, including 18 assailants...

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of parliamentary voting Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the crisis-hit, war-battered country.

Security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday to reinforce a multinational mission tasked with tackling the country’s rampant gang violence, the Haitian National Police announced. The troops will join the foreign police force known as the Multinational Security Support...

Krishna Das Prabhu, an outspoken Hindu leader advocating for the protection of minority groups in Bangladesh, faces sedition charges for leading rallies demanding better security for minority groups in Chattogram city. According to Public Prosecutor Mofizul Haque Bhuiyan, Krishna Das Prabhu did not...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will leave the country this month after a decades-long military presence, becoming the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonizer. In an end-of-year address to the nation on Tuesday, President Alassane Ouattara said the...

Since Israel’s devastating assault on the besieged Palestinian territory, the population of Gaza has fallen 6 percent according to The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). With the conflict beginning nearly 15 months ago, about 100,000 Palestinians have left the enclave while more than...