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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The dual strikes on Sunday bring the total number of known attacks up to 19 and the death toll to at...

Two Kenyan activists were released from detention in Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni confirmed they were arrested more than a month ago and accused them of working with the opposition to unseat him in the January general election. Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were taken by armed men on Oct. 1...

Two brothers have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a vehicle between the southeastern Lebanese towns of Ain Ata and Shebaa, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), in the latest flagrant violation of a one-year-old ceasefire. In a separate attack on Saturday, an Israeli drone struck...

A Russian drone slammed into a tower block in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing three and injuring 12 people, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country...

The number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has nearly doubled since last year, the United Nations has warned. The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday a “deepening hunger crisis” was unfolding in the region, but warned it was only able...

At least one person has been killed and nine injured in a series of Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, ratcheting up tensions and drawing condemnation from both the Lebanese government and the armed group Hezbollah as a flagrant violation of a one-year-old ceasefire. The Israeli military said...

The Rapid Support Forces says it has agreed to a proposal by the United States for a ceasefire in Sudan after more than two years of fighting with the Sudanese Armed Forces. The paramilitary group said in a statement on Thursday that it would accept a “humanitarian ceasefire” proposed by the U.S...

Officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan were in talks in Turkey on Thursday in an effort aimed at ensuring peace along their shared border, state-run media in Pakistan reported. Deadly border clashes that erupted last month between the two countries killed dozens of people, including soldiers...

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...