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A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on May 1, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. The attack in the partially occupied...

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime. MP Charles Were was shot on the night of April 30 after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road. President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a...

Amnesty International criticized Indonesia’s government, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists, and uses spyware against dissidents. The rights group said in its annual report on Indonesia that public protests “were met with...

Israel's army is flattening the remaining ruins of the city of Rafah on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, residents say, in what they fear is a part of a plan to herd the population into confinement in a giant camp on the barren ground. No food or medical supplies have reached the 2.3 million...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on April 26 named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step for the aging leader to designate a successor. The appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) does not guarantee he...

OCHA reported that over 30 bulldozers and other heavy equipment vehicles, including some donated during the ceasefire, were bombed by the Israeli Forces in Gaza City, North Gaza and Khan Younis on 21 and 22 April. The affected equipment included machinery for search-and-rescue operations, waste...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement. The truce, declared late on April 23 after a round of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha, has...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a ballistic missile towards northern Israel, according to the Israeli military, which claimed to have shot down the projectile without causing any injuries. Shortly after 4 am local time (01:00 GMT) on April 23, the Israeli army said that the missile triggered air...

A top commander of the armed wing of the Lebanese party al-Jamaa al-Islamiya has been killed in an Israeli drone attack in Lebanon. The attack on Hussein Atoui’s car south of Beirut was one of two deadly strikes launched by Israel. The strikes were part of a wave of ongoing violations from both...

The Israeli military has released details of an investigation into its own killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and aid workers in Gaza last month, saying its code of ethics was not violated and only one soldier is dismissed, in an attack that sparked outrage in the international community. The...