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Gunmen have killed nearly 200 people in western and northern Nigeria, officials and residents say, as survivors buried the dead and security forces hunted the attackers. Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the deployment of an army battalion to the western state of Kwara, after gunmen...

Legal authorities in Timor-Leste have initiated legal proceedings against Myanmar’s military junta, including its leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The move comes after the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) last month submitted a criminal file in...

At least 12 people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, the country’s energy minister said. Police said the attack took place in the ‌city of Ternivka. Energy firm DTEK said in a statement that the killed and wounded...

Relentless Israeli bombardment has killed at least 31 Palestinians, including six children and several police officers, in Gaza, a day before the Rafah border crossing is due to reopen. An Israeli air strike on Saturday on a tent sheltering displaced people killed at least seven Palestinians...

Myanmar’s military-backed party secured a sweeping victory in the country’s three-phase general election, according to state media, following the tightly controlled voting held amid civil war and widespread repression. The final of three rounds of voting last weekend wrapped up an election that...

Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez has announced an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners, her latest major reform since the U.S. military abducted the country’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife earlier this month. “We have decided to push ahead with a...

The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on an air force base in Niger’s capital that wounded four soldiers and damaged an aircraft. The claim of responsibility was contained in a statement on Amaq News Agency, the group’s propaganda wing, that said it was “a...

Israeli shelling and drone strikes across Gaza have killed at least five people and injured 11 others, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials. The deadly strikes on Friday in central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp and the southern city of Rafah came as Israel carried out continued targeted...

Syria’s Kurdish-led forces have reached a comprehensive agreement with the government to integrate with the Syrian army. The interim government in Damascus has been fighting an offensive in the north of the country against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) over recent weeks as it seeks...

Pakistan’s security forces have raided two militant hideouts in the country’s southwest, killing 41 insurgents in separate gunbattles, the military said Friday. The first raid left 30 insurgents dead in Panjgur district in Balochistan province, according to a military statement. It said that 11 more...