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A U.N. commission has accused Israel of destroying Gaza’s health care system through “relentless and deliberate attacks” in its yearlong war with Hamas

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Gunmen have invaded another town north of Haiti’s capital, just a week after a massacre killed at least 115 people in the country’s central region

Poland's foreign minister says the European Union nation is tightening its visa regulations as probes into alleged cash-for-visa scandal have confirmed irregularities under the previous governmnet going into millions of dollars

Officials in Cairo denied the claims, saying they sought "to halt the war."

Immigration officers in Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali have arrested a Chinese suspect sought by Beijing for helping run over $14 billion investment scam to clients in China

The World Trade Organization has raised its outlook for global goods trade this year slightly, but cautions that increasing geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over economic policy pose “substantial” risks to its forecast

An Israeli strike on a school sheltering the displaced in the Gaza Strip killed at least 27 people, including a child and seven women, Palestinian officials said Thursday, as Israel continues to strike at what it says are militant targets across Gaza

Britain’s new Labour government has unveiled a slew of new rights for workers, including more generous rules for sick pay and parental leave and major restrictions on certain precarious employment practices such as fire and rehire

Two people died in a fire at one of the Russian capital’s most notable buildings, a gargantuan Brutalist apartment block that viewers have likened to a toppled skyscraper

NEW DELHI, India (AP) — It's hard to imagine many Indian households that aren't somehow touched by the $100 billion conglomerate named for the family of Ratan Tata, who died in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday at the age of 86. Tata has been a mythical name in Indian consumers' imaginations for generations. Every day, all across India, people consume the Tata Group's salt and lentils, commute to work on Tata buses passing Tata cars and trucks after applying Tata beauty products in homes built from Tata steel. In Kashmir, Firdosa Jan makes tea for her family from a packet labeled Tata Tea Gold. Hundreds of miles away in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, 25-year-old Teisovinuo Yhome is cooking a dish on an open fire, using Tata salt for seasoning. Even though it was a business conglomerate, in the popular imagination, Tata was a man to envy and emulate. At the turn of the 20th century, Ratan Tata’s grandfather, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, built the first luxury hotel in...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance will hold its annual nuclear exercise next week

UN official says Israeli fire has wounded two peacekeepers in Lebanon

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose"

Landing in the midst of heated arguments in France about immigration comes an award-winning film about the issue with an eye-popping twist: Its lead actor Abou Sangare is himself an immigrant lacking permanent legal status

A Hong Kong court has rejected jailed publisher Jimmy Lai’s request to have a jury trial for his libel case against a pro-Beijing newspaper

Palestinian officials raise death toll from Israeli strike on Gaza shelter to 21

Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 27

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a Gaza shelter has killed 13 people

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at 10 Downing St. in London.

The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says China will resume importing Australian live lobsters by the end of the year

Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga. He stands on a plastic stool and leans in toward the 8-foot-tall figure. It is delicate work, requiring him to remain eye-to-eye with the goddess for long periods of time. He describes the experience as “having a direct connection with the goddess ... It can also be very frightening at times, when you feel her gaze upon you." Kanchan, 39, is the fourth generation in his family to build clay idols. His 70-year-old father, Ratan Paul, who is working inside, has been making idols since 1975. Their narrow workshop is located in an urban area on the outskirts of Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, and the idols are being prepared for Durga Puja, a festival celebrating the victory of good over evil. The idol that Kanchan is painting depicts Goddess Durga with 10 arms. She stands with her left foot on a muscular man and her right on a lion, her mount,...

Suspected militants riding on a motorcycle have opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, killing two of them and wounding two others

A series of suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have targeted a ship in the Red Sea

Lithuania’s center-right coalition could be replaced by the opposition Social Democrats and smaller center-left parties when voters in the Baltic country go to the polls on Sunday

Dozens of people squeeze together, pressing as tight as they can get. The stronger the foundation they build, the less likely their human tower will collapse. As children and others climb, they create eight, nine, even 10 dizzying stories. They tug on sashes wound around torsos, gritting their teeth to keep their backs straight and their legs from buckling. With maximum concentration, they look into each other’s eyes, seeking further support. The tradition of building human towers, or “castells” in Catalan, dates to the 18th century and forms an essential part of Catalonia’s culture. “Colles,” or human tower troupes, compete to build the tallest and most complicated towers at festivals often held in village squares across the region in northeastern Spain. For many Catalans, the towers symbolize the pride they feel for their land, language and history. It means they are in it together and, if united, they are capable of amazing feats. As the tower goes up, the ages come down....

Southeast Asian leaders have stepped up pressure on China to respect international law following clashes in the disputed South China Sea, but Chinese Premier Li Qiang remained defiant during annual summit talks as he blamed “external forces” for interf...

An investigation has found the pilot of the helicopter that crashed on top of an Australian hotel two months ago was affected by alcohol and was not qualified to fly at night

Fishermen in Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater fishery, the Tonle Sap lake, hope that raising eels will help them adapt to new realities stemming from climate change and environmental damage

In the courtyard of a psychiatric ward in Mali’s capital, patients take part in a traditional form of theater that is used as a way to work through problems

Russia has recruited about 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students, including teenagers, assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine

Russia is recruiting young African women to work at a factory producing drones for use in Ukraine amid a labor shortage

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine, AP investigation finds

Taiwan celebrated its National Day holiday against the background of threats from China, which claims the self-governing island republic as its own territory

The government of El Salvador says two of its migrants, including a 17 year-old, died when Mexican soldiers opened fire on the truck they were riding in last week

5 paramedics killed in Israeli airstrike on a civil defense center in southern Lebanon, officials say

The IDF recently told residents to evacuate several northern Gaza neighborhoods.

Ratan Tata, one of India’s most influential business leaders, has been cremated after a state funeral in the country’s financial capital

Ratan Tata, former chairman of India’s oldest conglomerate Tata Sons, has died at age 86 in a hospital, his company says

Greek officials say a group of 11 Romanian pilgrims visiting Greece’s Orthodox monastic community of Mount Athos are in hospital with food poisoning after eating wild mushrooms during a hike

Israel's defense minister says an Israeli attack on Iran would be 'lethal' and 'surprising' but offers no details

The man allegedly tried to cross the Tongil Bridge in Paju, just south of the heavily fortified demilitarized zone.

Mexico's top economic official is suggesting that his country will actively take the U.S. side in looming trade battles with China

French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s “super proud” of the cameo appearance by his wife, Brigitte, in the fourth season of the Netflix show “Emily in Paris.”

The social media platform X is returning to Brazil after remaining inaccessible for more than a month following a clash between its owner, Elon Musk, and a justice on the country’s highest court

Elon Musk's X platform is back in Brazil after a nearly six-week suspension, having complied with all judicial demands

Britain’s opposition Conservative Party will choose either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch to be its next leader

The Israel Defense Forces continued its bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs overnight into Wednesday, with a focus on the Hezbollah-controlled Dahiya area.