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Sudan topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released Tuesday by an international aid group for the third year in a row as a devastating war grips the northeastern African country.

European officials are launching an effort to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages caused by Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Lebanon's judicial authorities ordered the release on $100,000 bail Tuesday of a former economy minister who had been in detention for months over alleged financial crimes, officials said.

U.S. President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a television documentary he claims was "false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious."

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have blasted a Hong Kong court finding democracy advocate Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy and are urging Chinese authorities to facilitate his release.

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and 34 other countries formally approved plans Tuesday to create a compensation body to pay for damages to Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion, but questions remain about where the money will come from.

Suspected militants opened fire on a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing the officer and a passerby before fleeing, police said.

The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress.

An mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach was "a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State," Australia's federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.