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Police fired tear gas to control crowds in Paris and elsewhere in France on Tuesday as more than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support high school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures. The protests increased pressure on the administration...

Ukraine has launched a major drone attack on Moscow, killing two people and setting fire to a warehouse in the capital city, Russian officials say. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday that the overnight assault involved 650 drones heading towards the city, most of which were shot down, as...

Saudi Arabia says three people have been wounded in attacks on two airports near the Yemen border. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were hit in the attacks on Monday evening, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement on Tuesday. Yemen’s Houthis, an...

As renewed fighting has threatened a fresh humanitarian crisis in the northern region of Ethiopia, reports are emerging that a new alliance of armed groups in Tigray has been forcibly recruiting men and boys to its ranks. Renewed conflict erupted on 23 September between Ethiopia’s federal government...

A driver was killed in the attack, which occurred early on Saturday. The contracted trucks were carrying World Food Programmed (WFP) food commodities and were travelling between the cities of Dilling and Kadugli. They were clearly marked as humanitarian vehicles, the UN agency said in a statement...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government's restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah Agha, minister of education, and Neda Mohammad...

On Sunday, witnesses reported a drone strike on an internally displaced persons camp in Sheraro, western Tigray—home to thousands displaced during the last war. It killed eight civilians, including a child, and seriously wounded at least six others, an aid worker and witness told AFP. Fighting broke...

Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have killed at least one person and injured several others in violent incidents across the territory. Troops opened fire on a vehicle carrying three Palestinians near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, on Monday. The Israeli military reported that the car had rammed...

An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and civil defense service officials said. The Israeli military said later on Saturday that it carried out an overnight strike on an apartment in Gaza in an...

Russian aerial attacks forced the partial closure Friday of three bridges over the Dnipro River in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, in Moscow’s latest effort to disrupt life in the city. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s top diplomat said officials have received separate proposals for a partial truce...