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More than three million people have been displaced in Iran since the United States and Israel launched a war against the country late last month, the United Nations says, as concerns mount over a worsening humanitarian crisis. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday that as...

Israel’s latest daily large-scale attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 15 people in Beirut and the south, as Iran and Hezbollah launched coordinated waves of attacks on Israel, with renewed conflict on this volatile front boiling over as part of the wider war launched by the United States and...

Massive explosions caused by a drone strike at a market in the Darfur region near Sudan’s border with Chad killed four people and wounded over two dozen civilians, a medical group said. Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, blamed the strike on the army, saying the drone hit fuel reserves at the...

Far-right leader José Antonio Kast was sworn in as Chile’s president Wednesday in the Latin American nation’s most pronounced rightward shift since the return of democracy in 1990. In his first speech as president, Kast said Chile has real adversaries, including “those who have sown terror in...

A new report has expressed alarm at what it describes as backsliding press freedoms across the Americas, with the United States seeing the steepest decline. The Inter American Press Association released its latest press freedom index on Tuesday, ranking last year as the lowest point for freedom of...

Moscow's deportation and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia amounts to a crime against humanity, a United Nations team of investigators said Tuesday, March 10. The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said it had collected evidence leading it to conclude...

Israeli forces have launched air strikes across Lebanon as Israel targets the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah during the Israeli-United States war on Iran. Two Israeli air attacks on Tuesday hit Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre, known as Sour in Arabic. This came shortly after the Israeli army...

Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip have been “denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely” by Israel amid its genocidal war on the enclave, according to Amnesty International, a global rights group. Amnesty warned on Tuesday that women and girls in Gaza have been pushed “to the...

Ukrainian and Russian officials have claimed battlefield successes in the more than four-year war, as Russian air attacks on Ukraine continue. At least four people were killed in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian town of Sloviansk, regional authorities said on Tuesday. The governor of Sloviansk...

Madagascar's leader, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina, has sacked his prime minister and dissolved the cabinet he appointed soon after seizing power following youth-led protests five months ago. The colonel appointed Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, from the private sector, as prime minister in October soon...