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Myanmar opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years on Monday following an election that did not include major opposition parties, ensuring that the ruling military is set to retain a firm grasp on power. The military blocked Myanmar’s last parliament from convening when it seized...

Ecuadorian officials said Monday that they have deployed 75,000 soldiers and police officers to four crime-ridden provinces where the government is implementing a nightly curfew banning people from leaving their homes from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Officials said that 253 people were arrested for breaking...

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 13 Palestinians including two boys, a pregnant woman, and nine police officers in war-torn Gaza. An attack on Sunday hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza, killing four people, including a couple in their 30s and their 10-year-old...

At least 112 people have been killed so far in United States-Israel attacks on Iran’s Kurdistan province, according to a local official quoted by state media, a dark twist as Washington encourages Iranian Kurdish forces across the border in Iraq to launch a ground operation into Iran. The head of...

The European Union has voted to renew sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine, as Russian forces continued to target Ukrainian energy infrastructure, killing six people in the Zaporizhia and Kyiv regions. The measure was announced as Russia hammered Ukraine with...

Israel’s devastating assault on Lebanon rages on, killing more than 25 people in the capital Beirut and in southern and eastern Lebanon, a punishing front in the wider war launched by the United States and Israel on Iran. An Israeli strike early on Friday hit a car in Jnah, a coastal neighborhood in...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government accused Pakistan’s military of targeting homes in overnight airstrikes in Kabul and other areas of the country, saying at least six civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured, as fighting between the neighbors entered its third week. Afghan government...

More than three million people have been displaced in Iran since the United States and Israel launched a war against the country late last month, the United Nations says, as concerns mount over a worsening humanitarian crisis. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday that as...

Israel’s latest daily large-scale attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 15 people in Beirut and the south, as Iran and Hezbollah launched coordinated waves of attacks on Israel, with renewed conflict on this volatile front boiling over as part of the wider war launched by the United States and...

Massive explosions caused by a drone strike at a market in the Darfur region near Sudan’s border with Chad killed four people and wounded over two dozen civilians, a medical group said. Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, blamed the strike on the army, saying the drone hit fuel reserves at the...