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Russia closes in on key Ukrainian city, seeking gateway for future advances
By Max Hunder Reuters Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose ...Kenya’s violence epidemic: women train to fight back
By Sonia Rao Reuters From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set ...Hamas frees the first of 8 more hostages as Gaza truce holds. Israel is set ...
BY MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH, WAFAA SHURAFA and JOSEPH KRAUSS AP Hamas-led militants freed the first of eight hostages on Thursday in the latest ...Bodies pulled from Washington river after plane collides with helicopter
A passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into Washington’s Potomac River Wednesday after colliding midair with a military helicopter, with US media ...Waves of Ukrainian drones target Russian power, oil facilities
A nuclear power plant was among the targets of a massive Ukrainian drone attack against Russian oil and power facilities, Russian officials ...More deaths as Colombian guerrilla violence displaces nearly 50,000
A new bout of fighting between two guerrilla groups in northeastern Colombia, where violence has displaced nearly 50,000 people in 10 days, ...Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo’s Goma in major escalation
By Arlette Bashizi, Djaffar Al-Katanty, Yassin Kombi and Stanis Bujakera Reuters Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo’s largest city Goma on Monday, ...DeepSeek, Chinese AI startup roiling US tech giants
By Agatha Cantrill, with Peter Catterall in Beijing AFP Chinese startup DeepSeek, which has sparked panic on Wall Street with its powerful ...Tens of thousands return to devastated northern Gaza as Israel lifts its closure under truce
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS AP Tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to the most heavily destroyed part of ...Colombia caves on deportations after Trump threats
By Shaun Tandon with David Salazar in Bogota AFP Colombia on Sunday backed down and agreed to accept deported citizens sent on ...