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Taiwan’s opposition leader met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, the first such encounter in over a decade, with both sides affirming the need for maintaining peace around the self-ruled island that China claims as its territory. Both Xi and Cheng Li-wun...

The United Nations secretary-general on Wednesday, April 8, warned that deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon posed a "grave risk" to the fragile U.S.-Iran truce, his spokesperson said in a statement. "The ongoing military activity in Lebanon poses a grave risk to the ceasefire and the efforts toward a...

The humanitarian situation has reached “catastrophic levels” for civilians and is even more critical for persons with disabilities three years into the war in Sudan, the nongovernmental organization Humanity & Inclusion says. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support...

Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday to protest what they say are violations of their land rights by large corporations advancing farming, logging, and mining projects. Indigenous leaders also sought to apply pressure on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has...

United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply with his demands. On Tuesday evening, within hours of the planned attack, Trump took to his platform Truth...

Cameroon said on Monday that Russia has confirmed the deaths of 16 soldiers in Ukraine, according to a memo addressed to the Russian Embassy in the central African country. In the memo addressed to the embassy, the country’s foreign affairs ministry acknowledged the death of the Cameroonian soldiers...

At least 26 people have been killed in three separate Easter attacks in northern Nigeria, according to the Nigerian military and local officials. At least 17 were killed on Saturday when armed men attacked the Mbalom community in the Gwer West area of Nigeria’s north-central Benue State. Benue State...

Israel has launched renewed strikes on southern Lebanon as it continues to press forward with a ground invasion, while also waging new attacks on Beirut shortly after striking areas around the capital that had been so far removed from the conflict. At least four people were killed in a raid that hit...

A Russian drone hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday, April 4, killing five people and wounding 25, officials said, as Moscow pressed on with intensified daytime attacks. Russia has been firing aerial broadsides at Ukraine throughout its more than four-year...

Russian strikes killed at least eight people across Ukraine on Friday, including in a “massive” missile and drone attack near the capital, local authorities reported. Ukrainian officials claim the Kremlin is changing its tactics to increase civilian suffering, shifting to daytime barrages and...