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Hezbollah's rocket attack on Israel in response to commander's killing amid U.S. cease-fire efforts.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he was seeking an alliance against political extremes in snap elections, adding he aims to keep the far right from succeeding him in 2027 when he steps down.

Violence against children reached "extreme levels" in armed conflicts — particularly in Gaza and Sudan — in 2023, a UN report has found.

U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report published Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence in much of the first three months of the conflict that began on Oct. 7 last year

Scores of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, hours after Israeli airstrikes on a southern Lebanese village killed four officials from the militant Hezbollah group including the most senior military commander to be killed since clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border began eight months ago

US secretary of state says some Hamas proposals go beyond what group previously accepted but warns time is short

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have flocked to the Saudi holy city of Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage unfolding this year in the shadow of the Gaza war.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to keep pressing to seal a Gaza ceasefire deal, saying that not all of Hamas’s proposed amendments were acceptable but voicing hope that gaps could be closed. "The longer this goes on, the more people will suffer, and it's time for the…

U.S.-backed efforts face challenges in securing a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, with hopes for peace in the region.