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On April 27, there were 168 combat engagements on the frontline, with the highest number occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.

Philippine officials say a mission visited Sandy Cay Reef in disputed South China Sea and unfurled the national flag.

MADRID (AP) — Inside a sprawling hangar in Spain, workers bolt together a fuselage for European aerospace giant Airbus, which churns out jets and other military equipment.

When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down — towering Buddha idols, sky-scraping stupas and the pure-white pagoda where 83-year-old Khin Sein has prayed for most of her life.

Traffic control issues, an ignored warning and a pilot’s error reportedly led to the midair collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight over the Potomac River near Washington.

A man suspected of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque in southern France and filming his victim writhing in agony has surrendered to police in…

Hearings over bar on cooperation with Palestinian aid agency are test of Israel’s defiance of international lawIsrael will come under sustained legal pressure this week at the UN’s top court when lawyers from more than 40 states will claim the country’s ban on all cooperation with the UN’s Palestinian rights agency Unrwa is a breach of the UN charter.The five days of hearings at the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague have been given a fresh urgency by Israel’s decision on 2 March to block all aid into Gaza, but the hearing will focus on whether Israel – as a signatory to the UN charter – acted unlawfully in overriding the immunities afforded to a UN body. Israel ended all contact and cooperation with Unrwa operations in Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem in November, claiming the agency had been infiltrated by Hamas, an allegation that has been contested. Continue reading…

In Bryansk, Russia, drones once again attacked the Kremniy plant, where microelectronics are produced for missile systems, the Pantsir air defense systems, Iskander missiles, radar systems (RLS), electronic warfare systems (EW), and UAVs.

At the break of dawn, 10-year-old Youssef al-Najjar races barefoot, clutching a battered pot, to a community kitchen in Gaza City, only to find hundreds of others already queueing.