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Maksym Polishchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (ODESA, Ua.) — A missile exploded in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday, just hundreds of feet from where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to sources. “It hit in a couple of hundred of meters (about 300 feet) from […]

CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli Middle East expert and Princeton political science student, loved posting on X, formerly Twitter. Her social media posts praised protesters in Syria for their “immense courage,” called out authoritarianism in Russia, and even lauded anti-corruption protesters in her native Israel. And then, on March 21, 2023, […]

Catherine, princess of Wales arrives at the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum on Nov. 15, 2023 in London. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Kate, the princess of Wales, has been spotted publicly for the first time since undergoing abdominal surgery and recovering in the hospital for nearly two weeks in January. Kate, […]

Omer Erdem/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries from Chad into Western Sudan have been halted, according to multiple aid organizations. The halting of cross-border deliveries comes after Sudan’s ministry of foreign affairs raised concerns that arms transfers to the Rapid Support Forces Paramilitary Group — one of Sudan’s warring parties — […]

Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A second straight day of talks aimed at negotiating a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel concluded in Egypt on Tuesday with no breakthrough, a Hamas official told ABC News. Israel did not send a delegation to Cairo for the latest round of negotiations and has declined to comment […]

This screen grab taken from AFPTV shows tires on fire near the main prison of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 3, 2024, after a breakout by several thousand inmates. (LUCKENSON JEAN/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Armed gangs attempted to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday as chaos and violence continues to […]

A woman writes a message during an event held by relatives of the passengers and supporters to mark the 10th year since the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014. — Arif Kartono/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Government officials in Malaysia said on Sunday they’d […]

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty Images (BRUSSELS) — Apple was fined nearly $2 billion on Monday by the European Union for abusing its market dominance to harm music streaming apps and its customers. The tech giant, which offers its own music streaming service, prevented rival companies from promoting alternative and cheaper products that could be found […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti is under a state of emergency and nighttime curfew amid a surge of violence, after armed gangs attacked the Caribbean country’s two largest prisons and freed scores of inmates. The Haitian government declared the 72-hour state of emergency on Sunday evening and imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. to […]

David Dowling (NEW YORK) — Professor David Dowling of Pepperdine University traveled last fall from California to Ukraine to teach some students of Taras Shevchenko National University a course in conflict and dispute resolution. In a bomb shelter under Kyiv, as the war continued above them, 18 undergraduates learned the art of peace. “Five minutes […]