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As the death toll continues to climb, UNICEF called the Gaza Strip the most dangerous place in the world for children.

A British Palestinian surgeon who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team says he's given testimony to a British war crimes investigation unit

International and regional leaders have rejected the latest attempt by Guatemalan prosecutors to prevent progressive President-elect Bernardo Arévalo from taking office on Jan. 14

Sri Lanka's power and energy ministry says the country experienced an island-wide power outage for several hours after a system failure in one of the main transmission lines

City workers in Kyiv have dismantled the Soviet-era equestrian statue.

Ukraine has condemned Russia’s intention to organize presidential election voting in occupied Ukrainian territory next year

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia

Hundreds of people have marched in Georgia’s capital to support the Caucasus region country becoming a candidate for European Union membership

Zimbabwe is holding special elections for nine seats in Parliament after opposition lawmakers were removed from their positions and disqualified from running again

Israel’s ground offensive throughout the Gaza Strip is advancing under airstrikes and artillery fire

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is confident that his troubled government will find a good solution to a budget crisis triggered by a court ruling last month

The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disput...

Israeli forces are bombing areas where civilians were told would be safe.

Israel’s military is pushing ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to end the war

A fire has broken out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least three people

Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the country’s military warn that problems are growing as Polish truck drivers show no sign of ending a monthlong border blockade

Most Russian opposition figures are either in prison at home or are in exile abroad

A century-old territorial dispute is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela

The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan are calling for a stronger international push to suppress North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles

Mexican authorities say 14 people are dead following a clash between gunmen from a criminal gang and residents of a small farming community in central Mexico

Mexican authorities have raided and closed 31 drug stores in the Baja California coastal city of Ensenada, after they were detected selling false or fentanyl-laced pills

European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules

European leaders reach deal on the world’s first comprehensive AI rules, offering a blueprint for scrutinizing the tech

The UN estimates there are now 1.9 million people displaced across the Gaza Strip.

Mexico's immigration agency says its agents have detained two Iranians who they say were under observation by the FBI

Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has voiced hope that a coalition of countries formed to facilitate the return of Ukrainian children illegally deported by Russia will be able to come up with a faster mechanism to repatriate them

ABC News' Stephanie Ramos leads investigative look at women who experience sexual assault during their time in the military. Now, their families push for justice in the wake of death and discharge.

Bulgaria’s parliament has approved the provision of additional military aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia

A Belarusian journalists association has reported that two journalists have been detained in Belarus

Prosecutors in Guatemala have asked a court to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo of his immunity

French juvenile court convicts 6 teens for their roles in teacher's beheading by Islamic extremist

Russian police have put prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen on a wanted list after opening a criminal case against them on charges of spreading false information about the Russian army

ABC News foreign correspondent James Longman reports on the growing outrage over a video circulating online showing detained Palestinians stripped down to their underwear in the streets of Gaza.

Scotland’s highest civil court has upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark gender-recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament

French actor Gerard Depardieu’s behavior toward women has come under scrutiny in France after a documentary showed him repeatedly making obscene remarks and gestures during a 2018 trip to North Korea

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Authorities in Dominica are investigating the killings of a wealthy Canadian businessman and his partner who owned an eco-resort in the eastern Caribbean island

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Indonesia’s president says his government blames a surge in human trafficking for the increasing number of Rohingya Muslims who have entered the country over the past few weeks

Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova says she will seek to block the new government’s plan to return the prosecution of major crimes from a national office to regional ones, using either a veto or a constitutional challenge

Pakistan's caretaker interior minister says nearly half a million Afghans who were living in Pakistan without documents have returned home in the past more than two months as part of an ongoing crackdown on foreigners living illegally in the country

Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons

The Asian Development Bank says it approved $200-million concessional loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka to help stabilize the country’s finance sector

The funeral of The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has taken place in Ireland, attended by family, neighbors and friends including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is considering allowing neighboring Greece to benefit from a nuclear power plant that Turkey plans to build near the Black Sea coast

Throughout his 24 years in power in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has launched wars, cracked down on the opposition, stifled most independent media and consolidated his power

The investigation into what happened to the child has lasted over two years.

Vladimir Putin has moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and several key Cabinet ministers have been grilled by opposition lawmakers in parliament over a widening fundraising scandal that threatens to further drag down the government’s sagging popularity

Putin to seek another presidential term in Russia, extending his rule of over two decades, state media say