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A Russian glide bomb attack on a village near the frontline in eastern Ukraine has killed 21 civilians waiting to collect pension payments, Ukrainian officials say of the latest barrage from Moscow. Vadym Filashkin, governor of the eastern region of Donetsk, said 21 people were killed and 21 wounded...

The death toll from two attacks on civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by an Islamic State-affiliated rebel group has risen to 89, Congolese authorities said. Officials said late Tuesday that 71 people were killed at a funeral in Nyoto on Monday, and 18 others were killed in Beni...

Nepal’s prime minister has resigned after some of the worst unrest in decades rocked the country this week, set off by a ban on social media and discontent at political corruption and nepotism. KP Sharma Oli’s resignation came a day after widespread protests were met with deadly force by police...

At least five people have been killed and five others wounded after Israeli warplanes struck eastern Lebanon in the latest violation of the ceasefire agreement signed last November, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The attacks on Monday hit the Bekaa and Hermel districts, with state media...

Unarmed protesters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who accused a military officer of supporting Rwanda-backed rebels became the targets of gunfire Monday that left at least three people dead, witnesses and the regional governor said. Witnesses belonging to a militia and a civil society...

For Luz Elena Galeano, whose husband disappeared two decades ago in Medellín’s conflict, joining 40 other women to monitor daily excavations at La Escombrera has become routine. The debris landfill on the city’s outskirts has yielded the remains of six people in the last eight months. The effort is...

International Criminal Court prosecutors will present evidence on Tuesday to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against notorious fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony at the global court’s first-ever in absentia hearing. Kony faces dozens of counts of crimes against humanity...

Russia has launched its largest ever air attack on Ukraine, hitting a key government building in Kyiv for the first time and killing at least three people, including a mother and her baby, and drawing widespread condemnation. The bombardment of the capital with a large number of drones and missiles...

Israel has destroyed another high-rise in Gaza City, bringing the number of buildings razed during its campaign to seize the largest urban center in the Gaza Strip to at least 50, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. The attack on Al-Ruya Tower on Sunday came as Israeli forces killed at least...

Boko Haram militants killed dozens of people in a nighttime assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria that is home to residents who had recently returned from a camp for internally displaced persons, authorities said. The attack on Darul Jamal in the Bama local government area took place late...