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A drone picture of a line of trucks waiting on an Egyptian road along the border with Israel, near the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip May 2, 2024.

UN accuses Israel of denying Gaza aid access as famine takes hold

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a "full-blown famine" has taken hold in the ...

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Russian attacks on Kharkiv and region kill one, injure 17, officials say

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A firefighter works at a site a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine May 4, 2024.

Trump accuses Biden of running 'Gestapo administration'

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Former President Donald Trump with his lawyers talks to the press outside the Manhattan Criminal Courtroom in New York, U.S., May, 3, 2024. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Mark Peterson/Pool via

Thousands protest against Hungary's Orban in ruling party stronghold

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Los Angeles police make no arrests clearing USC pro-Palestinian encampment

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Bangladesh reopens schools as searing temperatures drop

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A drone view shows a flooded city center after people were evacuated in Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 4, 2024.

Death toll from southern Brazil rainfall rises to 75, many still missing

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

PORTO ALEGRE/CANOAS (Reuters) -The death toll from heavy rains that have caused flooding in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 75, local authorities said on Sunday, with tens of thousands of people displaced. President ...

A Ukrainian serviceman attends an Orthodox Easter service in the town of Kostiantynivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 5, 2024.

Ukrainians in embattled east mark third Easter under fire

Dan Peleschuk |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read

By Dan Peleschuk KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainians in the embattled east flocked to church on Sunday to mark their third wartime Easter as Russian troops inched closer to threatening some of the region's key cities. Fighting on the ...

Mourners as seen at the Central Methodist Mission, at the memorial service in honour of the Marshalltown fire victims, in Johannesburg, South Africa September 8, 2023.

South Africa inquiry blames authorities for neglect leading to deadly fire

Tim Cocks |Updated 6 hours ago |2 min read

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry into a fire that killed 77 people in Johannesburg last year blamed neglect by authorities for allowing a building to become a den for guns, murder, drugs and combustible trash, and failing to ...

Hamas armed wing says responsible for Israel-Gaza border crossing attack

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, which Israeli and Palestinian media reports said had ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024.

Netanyahu says ending Gaza war now would keep Hamas in power

Reuters |Updated 7 hours ago |2 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hardened his rejection of Hamas demands for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, saying on Sunday that would keep the Palestinian Islamist group in power and pose ...

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski speaks during a press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union, in Slubice, Poland, May 1, 2024.

Poland wants best ties with US no matter who's in power, minister says

Reuters |Updated 7 hours ago |1 min read

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland wants "the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a visit to Washington, according to a report by Poland's PAP newswire on Sunday."We will not ...

Four Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli strike on border village

Reuters |Updated 5 hours ago |1 min read

AMMAN (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike killed four members of a family in a house in a border village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said. The four were killed in Meiss al Jabal, which has suffered extensive damage ...

A general view shows the Al-Jazeera headquarter building in Doha, Qatar, May 11, 2022.

Israeli police raid Al Jazeera after shutdown order

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JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) -Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday following a government decision to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations, an Israeli official and an Al ...

View of a swollen river near a safari lodge following heavy rainfall in the Talek region, of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok County, Kenya May 1, 2024.

Death toll from Kenya floods rises to 228

Reuters |Updated 8 hours ago |1 min read

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The torrential rains that have caused widespread flooding and landslides ...

A police officer guards an entrance to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2024.

Ex-US Capitol cop, Jan. 6 rioter's runs for Congress illustrate a divided America

Richard Cowan |Updated 8 hours ago |4 min read

By Richard Cowan ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland (Reuters) - A former U.S. Capitol police officer who defended lawmakers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and a man who served time in prison for joining the mob, could both be headed to Congress next year ...