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Ugandan authorities sought and won parliamentary approval Thursday to deploy troops to Gaza as part of the international force proposed by President Trump's Board of Peace to secure the territory following the devastating Israel-Hamas war.

Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities on Thursday charged former Ambassador to the U.S. Olha Stefanishyna with seeking "illicit enrichment" after failing to declare two apartments registered in a friend's name.

Malaysian durian orchard owner Stephen Chow's workers spend hours in the fields in the dead of night, donning headlamps to collect freshly ripened fruit coveted by Chinese consumers. But the hard work may not be enough to keep Chow out of the red.

Israeli prosecutors Thursday charged a settler for the killing of a Palestinian activist last year in the occupied West Bank, according to an indictment filed in a district court in southern Israel.

British regulators on Thursday gave Paramount the greenlight for its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, with some new assurances from the company - clearing another hurdle for the mega merger while it still faces challenges elsewhere.

A fire destroyed 60 hectares (148 acres) of land in the Mount Bromo area in a national park in Java, Indonesia's most populous island, since Monday, officials said on Thursday.

A man accused of killing a Scottish aid worker in Athens and hiding her body in a suitcase has been jailed pending his trial for murder.

The director of a Russian drone factory was badly wounded and his driver was killed in a car-bombing that rocked a town hundreds of miles from Moscow earlier this week, according to local news reports.

After renewing her commitment to a controversial 100 million pound Church of England fund apologizing for the church's historical ties to the slave trade, Archbishop Sarah Mullally ended her 10-day Africa tour Tuesday calling for peace and healing.

President Trump insisted Thursday that the U.S. has ample military firepower and said he wants to prosecute "leakers" who told the media that supplies are running short.