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A powerful cyclone in the Arabian Sea is moving toward India’s western coast, prompting authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and suspend COVID-19 vaccinations in one state

Samoa appears set to get its first woman leader after the nation’s top court on Monday reinstated the results of a knife-edge election last month

The Israeli military has unleashed a wave of heavy airstrikes on the Gaza Strip

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Denmark for talks on climate change, Arctic policy and Russia as calls grow for the Biden administration to take a tougher and more active stance on spiraling Israeli-Palestinian violence

Indonesian ride hailing company Gojek and e-commerce firm Tokopedia said Monday that they are merging, in the largest ever deal in the country’s history

Preliminary official results of a weekend local election in Croatia have shown that the candidate of a leftist-green group has taken a strong lead in the race for mayor of Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, dealing a blow to the ruling conservatives

The Hong Kong stock exchange has halted the trading of Next Digital shares, days after authorities froze assets belonging to its founder Jimmy Lai

Australia’s oldest-ever man has included eating chicken brains among his secrets to living more than 111 years

Israel is promoting tourism in Dubai even amid a surge of airstrikes on Gaza City that killed at least 42 people in just the last day

Gaza medics say Israeli airstrikes killed 26 in downtown Gaza City

A three-day cease-fire marked by violent attacks has ended.

The U.S. and British embassies in Myanmar have expressed concern about reports of fierce government attacks on a town in western Chin state, where the ruling junta declared martial law because of armed resistance to military rule

Israeli warplanes have unleashed a series of heavy airstrikes at several locations of Gaza City

At least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a bleacher collapsed during Shavuot prayers in Jerusalem. The incident is not connected with the ongoing fighting, officials said.

Israeli medics say two people are dead and more than 150 injured in a bleacher collapse at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue

Bruno Covas, the mayor of Sao Paulo, has died of cancer at the age of 41

A synagogue was hosting 650 worshipers for Shavuot prayers, authorities said.

The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro was lit up with a message on vaccine equality to bring awareness to the need for immunization around the world.

British police say they have arrested four people over videos posted on social media that appear to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy of cars driving through London

Israeli paramedics: 2 dead, over 150 injured in synagogue bleacher collapse

Israeli medics: Dozens injured in bleacher collapse in synagogue, ambulances on way to scene

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says military campaign is continuing 'full-force' and will 'take time'

A league of Muslim nations has demanded Israel halt attacks killing Palestinian civilians amid heavy fighting between it and Hamas in the Gaza Strip

Gaza Health Ministry: Death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City rises to 42, deadliest attack in recent fighting

Palestinian medics say death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City climbs to 33, deadliest attack in recent fighting

The liquor is made from apples grown in the area close to the disaster site.

The U.S. and British embassies in Myanmar are expressing concern about reports.

Pope Francis is celebrating a special Mass for the people of Myanmar following the country’s military takeover

Gaza Health Ministry says 23 killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in deadliest single attack since fighting began

Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still

Israel has escalated its attacks on the Gaza Strip, bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp and destroying a high-rise that housed The Associated Press and other media

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called on the U.N. Security Council to seek an early de-escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers

To the outside world, the scenes of rocket fire, bombing raids and angry protests in the Middle East this week may have looked familiar. To the people of Israel and especially the Gaza Strip, they were anything but routine. Families once again fled or found themselves homeless, anguished parents mourned dead children and journalists evacuated offices before they were destroyed as the Islamic militant group Hamas and the Israeli military sought to inflict as much damage on the other as they could this week - before the fighting intensified further or they were pressured into a cease-fire. The Gaza side, which is controlled by Hamas, absorbed the overwhelming brunt of the death toll: 145 people, including 41 children and 23 women, as of Saturday night, according to the Health Ministry of the narrow, crowded territory where 2 million Palestinians live. Those killed included a family of six on Friday and 10 members of the same family on Saturday. In Israel, where cities with mixed...

Israeli military says it targeted the home of Gaza's top Hamas leader

An Israeli airstrike has destroyed a high-rise building that was home to The Associated Press’ offices in the Gaza Strip

Associated Press correspondent Fares Akram heard the shouts: “Evacuation

He will begin a 13-year prison sentence for leading a criminal organization.

A snake catcher in Australia rescued a giant carpet python that made a home in a family's toilet paper basket.

Baubeach in Rome, a beach exclusively for dogs and their owners, returned for the summer season with new COVID-19 safety protocols.

After struggling to control the coronavirus pandemic for more than a year, Peru is now facing a parallel crisis: a lack of space in cemeteries

Israel has responded to Hamas rockets with air strikes in Gaza this week.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she understands young people’s frustration about the pace of efforts to combat climate change, but is stressing the need to build political majorities to support effective action

Protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip marched despite a ban.

Young people, college students have led Colombia’s antigovernment protests.

Iran’s judiciary chief and a prominent hard-line cleric has registered to run in the country's June presidential election

An airstrike demolished the tower housing Associated Press and Al-Jazeera offices in Gaza City after the Israeli military claimed the building allegedly contained Hamas military assets.

Ethiopia has again delayed its national election after some opposition parties said they wouldn’t take part and as conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there

The face of a new Chile begins taking shape this weekend as the South American country elects 155 people to draft a constitution to replace one that drafted under a military dictatorship

Zimbabwe’s High Court has forced the country’s chief justice to retire, ruling that an extension of his term by the president is illegal

The Israeli military says a misunderstanding caused it to tell some international reporters that it had invaded the Gaza Strip with ground troops