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Senior United Nations officials appealed to the Security Council on August 6 for help in getting humanitarian aid access in Sudan "across borders, across battle lines, by air, by land" to fight famine that has taken hold in at least one site in North Darfur. The United States last month suggested...

Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is set to return to Dhaka on August 8 to be sworn in as his country’s interim leader, after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following widespread protests against her government. The Bangladesh military’s swift appointment of...

Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González will not appear before the country’s high court for a hearing related to an election audit requested by President Nicolás Maduro, his campaign said. Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice on Monday ordered González, who represented the main...

Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced the creation of a new commission to recommend how reparations can be made for a 1921 massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in the city. The panel will review a 2023 report for the city and a 2001 report by a state commission on Tulsa Race Massacre...

The Venezuelan attorney general, a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro, has announced he is investigating opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for alleged "incitement to insurrection." The opposition leaders had earlier called on the security forces to "side with the...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on August 4 condemned what he described as "far-right thuggery" and said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent anti-immigration protests culminated in hotels being targeted. Violent protests have erupted in towns and cities across...

An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on August 4, killing at least 30 people, Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools. An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza earlier in the...

The leader of Hezbollah on August 6 pledged a "strong and effective" response to the killing of its military commander by Israel last week and said it would act either alone or with its regional allies. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah would wait for the right moment to respond but did not...

The United Nations says nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, adding that they have been fired. “We have sufficient information in order to take the actions that we’re taking — – which is to say...

Bangladesh's parliament has been dissolved, a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced from power. Ms. Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of student-led protests spiraled into deadly unrest. The dissolution of parliament, a key demand of protesters, paves the way for...