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Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water, or medicine into the besieged territory until it puts in place a system giving it control over the distribution. But officials from the UN and aid groups say proposals Israel has floated to use its...

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...

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...

Gangs have attacked another town in Haiti’s central region, killing at least four people, including an 11-year-old child, a human rights activist told The Associated Press. At least 15 other people were injured by gunfire, and more than a dozen homes were burned in Petite Rivière, said Bertide...

Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group killed at least 30 people in an attack on Omdurman, the sister city of the capital, Khartoum, the authorities and an activist group said. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are alleged to have kidnapped dozens of people, including women, from Salha, an area in the...

The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on Israel's legal duty to allow aid to Palestinians and to cooperate with the UN's Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA—both of which Israel has barred in Gaza. Israel stopped allowing aid into Gaza on March 2...

The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks—defusing an escalating battle with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announced his resignation, saying he will formally step...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have agreed to draft a peace deal by May 2, committing to respect each other’s sovereignty and refraining from providing military support to armed groups. DRC Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and her Rwandan counterpart Olivier...

Pakistan threatened to suspend its participation in all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla Agreement, in a retaliatory move after India said it would suspend its own participation in the Indus Water Treaty and close the land border the day before. The Simla Agreement was a...

Russia attacked Kyiv with an hours long barrage of missiles and drones, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 70 in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since last July and just as peace efforts are coming to a head. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after the attack...