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The vote to approve the deal was 10-1.

Smoke rising from the rubble of multistory buildings in Beirut. Rockets streaking over the blackened hills of northern Israel. People fleeing their homes, not knowing when or if they will return. Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah reached a ceasefire Tuesday, but even if it holds, the devastation caused by 14 months of fighting will linger for years. Associated Press photographers have documented the harsh toll on both sides. The border area is a charred wasteland, and an escalation in September brought waves of bombardment upon the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs and other areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence. Strikes also hit other areas. Hezbollah's rocket, drone and missile fire emptied out communities across northern Israel, and longer-range drones and missiles have hit the northern city of Haifa and the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Israel agreed to the ceasefire after months of negotiations led by the United States and France. Hezbollah has said it accepts...

Drones were also seen over the bases last week.

Israeli airstrikes shake Beirut moments after Biden says Israel and Hezbollah agreed to ceasefire deal

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a deal brokered by the U.S. "to end the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah."

Trump border czar Tom Homan and Texas Governor Greg Abbott made two stops along the border to feed National Guard troops and DPS troopers on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Security Cabinet has approved ceasefire deal with Hezbollah

Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was fully aware of and actively participated in a coup plot to remain in office after his defeat in the 2022 election, according to a Federal Police report that has been unsealed

Brazil’s Bolsonaro was fully aware and actively participated in a 2022 coup plot, unsealed police report says

Rescuers found one survivor after a small plane crashed into a Costa Rican mountainside

Authorities say a suspect wanted in the U.S. for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 has appeared in a London courtroom after being captured in the U.K. The National Crime Agency says Daniel Andreas San Diego was arrested Monday in a rural a...

Authorities say a fugitive terror suspect on the run from the US for 20 years has been arrested in the UK

Authorities in Chile have said President Gabriel Boric is under investigation for sexual harassment

Israel strikes crowded neighborhood in Beirut as part of its biggest attacks on Lebanese capital since start of the war

Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement in a taped message.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is recommending Hezbollah cease-fire proposal to Cabinet for approval

A crew member on the boat sent a distress signal at 5.30 a.m. on Monday before the ship dropped off the radar, according to officials.

Albanian opposition lawmakers and their supporters have blocked the capital’s main streets for hours accusing the government of corruption and demanding it be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet until 2025 parliamentary elections

Canadian officials are blasting President-elect Donald’s Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs

Authorities say gunmen in Central African Republic have killed six motorcycle taxi drivers and four of their clients near the central diamond mining town of Bria

The U.S. Air Force in the United Kingdom has said a number of small drones have been detected near three bases in the eastern part of the country.

ABC News contributor and former Deputy Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Mick Mulroy talks about the difficulty of getting aid to people in the war-torn country.

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said Hezbollah “learned a lesson” after starting a war with Israel.

The U.K. Supreme Court has begun hearing a legal challenge focusing on the definition of “woman” in a long-running dispute between a women’s right campaign group and the Scottish government

The United Nations in Chad has launched an internal investigation, following an Associated Press report on allegations of sexual exploitation of Sudanese refugees, including by aid workers

Rescue operations at a building that collapsed in Tanzania's commercial capital have ended after 10 days as the number of dead rose to 29

Two South African opposition parties have asked the country’s top court to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a scandal where more than half a million dollars in cash was stashed in a couch at his ranch and then stolen

Mali’s junta has taken popular news broadcaster Joliba TV News off air after it broadcast a politician's critical remarks about a close ally of the military regime, a journalist for the channel said Tuesday

The world’s oldest man has died in England at age 112

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Lebanese families with children diagnosed with cancer are now grappling with the hardships of both illness and war

A cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah would begin soon after its announcement, according to an Israeli source with knowledge of the potential deal. ABC News’ James Longman reports.

A strong earthquake has struck Japan’s north-central region of Noto that’s still recovering from a deadly quake early this year

A team of Lithuanian investigators were beginning their probe into Monday's deadly cargo plane crash near the country's capital, with aid expected from from the U.S.

Netanyahu is expected to discuss the proposed deal with his security cabinet.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants acros...

Five people have been fatally shot in Jamaica, marking the latest mass shooting on the small island

Mexican president suggests Mexico could respond to any of Donald Trump's tariffs with tariffs of its own on US products.

A parliamentary panel investigating Poland's cash-for-visas scandal said it will send evidence of alleged breaches of law by the previous prime minister and other ministers and officials in the former right-wing government to prosecutors

Indonesian authorities say they have foiled a plot to smuggle more than a ton of endangered pangolin scales worth over a million dollars

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to sharply raise tariffs on all Chinese imports and close some loopholes Chinese exporters currently use to sell their products more cheaply in the U.S. If enacted, his plans would likely raise prices in...

A record-high 188 drones attacked Ukraine, the air force said.

The U.S. Air Force says a number of small drones have been detected near four bases in eastern England that are used by American forces

US Air Force in UK says a small number of drones spotted flying over bases in eastern England

Egyptian naval forces have rescued five more people and recovered four bodies, a day after a tourist yacht carrying 44 passengers sank in the Red Sea coastal town of Marsa Alam after facing rough weather

Berlin's more than 100 Christmas markets are opening across the city this week, and organizers are taking an increasingly diverse approach

Israel strikes building in central Beirut, issues new evacuation warnings ahead of expected vote on ceasefire deal

Russian authorities have ordered a British diplomat to leave the country on allegations of spying as tensions soar over the conflict in Ukraine

The Sea Story sank Monday off the coast of Marsa Alam, Egypt, officials said.

Israel has approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip