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Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dead
BY JIM HEINTZ AP Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died ...Gaza medics speak of ‘dire’ conditions at hospital raided by Israel
By Mai YAGHI AFP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said patients and medics were enduring “dire and frightening conditions” at a ...Thousands homeless after DR Congo’s worst floods in sixty years
By Benoit Nyemba and Ange Adihe Kasongo Reuters In a makeshift camp for people displaced by floods in Democratic Republic of Congo, ...Israeli fire kills patient and wounds others, medics say, as army pushes to evacuate a Gaza hospital
By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE The Associated Press Israeli forces fired into the main hospital in southern Gaza early on Thursday, ...Ukraine’s second city keeps going despite Russian attacks
By Dan Peleschuk Reuters For a city under frequent attack by Russia, Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine is functioning surprisingly well: the streets ...France proposes Hezbollah withdrawal, border talks for Israel-Lebanon truce
By Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and John Irish Reuters France has delivered a written proposal to Beirut aimed at ending hostilities with ...Siberian shipyard workers brave freezing cold for “the hardest job in the world”
A drone flies low over a snow-covered shipyard in Russia’s Far East, where workers toil in subzero temperatures to maintain the hulking ...Israeli strikes kill dozens in Rafah as raid rescues two hostages
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY AP Israeli forces rescued two hostages early Monday, storming a heavily guarded apartment in ...Colombia announces start of peace process with Segunda Marquetalia rebel faction
Colombia’s government and a dissident faction of the former FARC rebel group known as the Second Marquetalia said they have started a ...Warnings over Rafah offensive mount as Israel plans push in Gaza
By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and CARA ANNA AP Israel’s neighbors and key mediators warned Saturday of disaster and repercussions if its ...