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Israel intensifies strikes on Rafah ahead of threatened invasion
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi Reuters Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city ...Kenyan military deployed as East Africa floods kill dozens
Kenya’s military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over ...US secretly gives Ukraine long-range missiles
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR AND TARA COPP AP Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the ...France’s air traffic control strikes ground flights across Europe
Delays and flight cancellations were set to impact swathes of Europe on Thursday, after authorities failed to reach a deal with some ...Israel gears up for Rafah civilian evacuation ahead of promised assault
By Dan Williams Reuters Israel has procured tens of thousands of tents for Palestinian civilians it intends to evacuate from Rafah in ...Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border
A Myanmar rebel group has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by soldiers of the ...Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia
BY NICK PERRY, MICHELLE L. PRICE and DAVE COLLINS AP Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York ...Ukraine launches military charm offensive as conscription flags
By Dan Peleschuk Reuters Far from the trenches, at orderly new centres across Ukraine, civilian recruiters armed with laptops and info packs ...Russia says West is teetering on brink of conflict between nuclear powers
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the support of the United States, Britain and France for Ukraine was stoking ...Pro-China party wins Maldives election in landslide
By MOHAMED SHARUHAN AP MALE, Maldives — Maldivians voted in parliamentary elections Sunday, in a ballot crucial for President Mohamed Muizzu, whose ...