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Russian missiles destroyed homes, burned buildings, and killed civilians in Ukraine’s major cities in a mass overnight strike on April 16, with residential neighborhoods in Kyiv,…

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Russian strikes killed at least 12 people in Ukraine, local authorities have said, after Moscow pummelled its neighbour in overnight attacks.
Missile and drone attacks on the southern port city of Odesa killed six people, the head of the city’s…

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — The Israeli military killed four Lebanese rescue workers and wounded six others in three consecutive, targeted strikes Wednesday, paramedic groups said, a stark illustration of the…

The defeat of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party in Hungary’s parliamentary election shouldn’t be seen as a shock. Opinion polls had long pointed in this direction. Nor should the outcome be divorced from a simple political reality: sixteen consecutive years in…

US president says the leaders of the two countries will speak for the first time in 34 years on Thursday.
Published On 16 Apr 2026
United States President Donald Trump has announced that the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak for…

(Bloomberg) — The US and Iran are considering a two-week ceasefire extension to allow more time to negotiate a peace deal, according to a person familiar with the matter, reducing the risk of renewed fighting despite an intensifying standoff…