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The spread of famine has been averted in the Gaza Strip, but the situation remains critical with the entire Palestinian territory still facing starvation, the world's leading authority on food crises said Friday.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced a new set of sanctions this week targeting Iran's "shadow fleet" vessels used to transport sanctioned oil.

In a video message recorded weeks before he was killed, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors participating in a Hanukkah ceremony on Thursday to "be resilient" during difficult times.

Pope Leo XIV named a new archbishop of Westminster on Friday in another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.

Danish authorities say in a new assessment published this week that Russia carried out cyberattacks against infrastructure and websites in Denmark in 2024 and 2025, describing new cases which had not previously been reported.

American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country.

In the first full day of opening since a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Australia's famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, thousands of people returned to the waterfront Friday to commemorate the losses and try to heal through a sense ...

The Guinness Book of World Records was accused Thursday of "deceptive practices" after admitting that it has refused for the past two years to accept submissions from Israel in what may be a violation of U.S. consumer-protection laws.

Pope Leo XIV insisted Thursday that peace was not only possible but necessary, as he blasted the "irrationality" of nuclear deterrence and the weaponization of faith in modern political discourse.

The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon said Thursday that the move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country.