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An attack on a funeral in the key city of el-Obeid in Sudan’s North Kordofan state has killed 40 people, according to the United Nations. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, citing local sources, said on Tuesday the attack in the state capital, which is still being held by the...

Israel has released five Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas, offering a rare moment of relief for the families in Gaza. The five men, freed on Monday evening, were taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah for medical examinations, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary...

Israeli attacks have killed two people and wounded seven others in southern Lebanon, a day after Israel threatened to escalate its assault on alleged Hezbollah targets. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health on Monday said that an Israeli strike on the town of Doueir in Nabatieh province killed one person and...

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in for a second term, following a landslide victory in a disputed election that prompted deadly protests across the country. Hassan took the oath of office during a ceremony on Monday at a military base in the capital, Dodoma. The event was...

Russia fired a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people including two children, and cutting power to tens of thousands, officials said Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks, which also wounded a dozen other people, showed Moscow was...

A mayor in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said. Local politicians in Mexico are frequently victims of political and organized crime violence. The mayor of the Uruapan municipality...

Authorities in Gaza say that Israel has only allowed a fraction of the humanitarian aid deliveries agreed on as part of the United States-brokered ceasefire into the enclave since the agreement came into effect last month. In a statement on Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that 3,203...

The death toll in a massive police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro rose to at least 121 people, authorities said Thursday. An operation launched Tuesday in two of the city’s favelas sparked intense gunbattles that left at least four police officers dead and an unknown number...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend a ceasefire for at least another week during talks in Turkiye, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The sides plan to meet again at a higher-level gathering in Istanbul on November 6 to finalize how the ceasefire will be implemented, the...

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets for a second day of demonstrations in Tanzania on Thursday after a disputed election, while Amnesty International reported that two people have died. After the protests broke out on Wednesday, the government shut down the internet, imposed a curfew, and...