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The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator urged Israel to lift its blockade of aid into the Gaza Strip, saying the halting of humanitarian aid amounts to “cruel collective punishment.” The U.N. said thousands of Palestinians had breached a humanitarian field office in Gaza looking for aid...

Thousands of people in Serbia marked six months since a train station tragedy in the country’s north killed 16 people and triggered a wave of anti-corruption protests that have shaken populist President Aleksandar Vucic’s tight grip on power. Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade...

A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on May 1, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. The attack in the partially occupied...

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime. MP Charles Were was shot on the night of April 30 after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road. President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have asked the country’s Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph Kabila so that he can face trial on charges of supporting a rebel insurgency in the country’s east, the justice minister said. Justice Minister Constant Mutamba told...

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official criticizing junta leader Ibrahim Traore. The West African country’s military government recently said it foiled a “major plot” to...

Amnesty International criticized Indonesia’s government, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists, and uses spyware against dissidents. The rights group said in its annual report on Indonesia that public protests “were met with...

Russia struck civilian areas of Ukraine with drones in another deadly nighttime attack, as Kyiv officials dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire next week as an attempt “to deceive the United States.” The Russian attack damaged homes in Ukraine’s...

Israel's army is flattening the remaining ruins of the city of Rafah on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, residents say, in what they fear is a part of a plan to herd the population into confinement in a giant camp on the barren ground. No food or medical supplies have reached the 2.3 million...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on April 26 named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step for the aging leader to designate a successor. The appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) does not guarantee he...