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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...

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...

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...

Gross rights violations, possibly including war crimes and crimes against humanity, may have been committed by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia and the Congolese military and its affiliates in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to United Nations investigators. A fact-finding mission...

Twenty-six countries have offered to contribute to Ukraine's security after any ceasefire deal with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said after a summit on Thursday, adding that U.S. support would be finalized in coming days. A summit of Kyiv "coalition of the willing" allies to firm up...

At least 21,000 children have been disabled in Gaza since Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave broke out nearly two years ago, a United Nations committee has said. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) reported that about 40,500 children have suffered “new war...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli drones have dropped four grenades close to its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel. “This is one of the most serious attacks on UNIFIL personnel and assets since the cessation of hostilities agreement of last...