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Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are on hold, the Kremlin has announced, accusing European countries of obstructing negotiations, while United States President Donald Trump warns he may be running out of patience with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The comments on Friday come as...

At least 51 people have been killed during violent anticorruption protests in Nepal this week, and thousands of prisoners who escaped during the chaos remain on the run, according to police. Police spokesperson Binod Ghimire said on Friday that those killed so far this week included 21 protesters...

Dozens of people were killed in a fishing village north of Haiti’s capital in the latest massacre carried out by powerful gangs in the troubled Caribbean country, an official said Friday. At least 42 people were killed in Labodrie, including a 4-year-old child and his family, said Joseph Louis...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on two private schools in a village in Myanmar has killed at least 18 people, most of them students, an armed group and local media reports said Friday. More than 20 others were injured in the nighttime attack on the Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw township, the...

Belarus has released 52 prisoners following mediation by the United States, which has promised to grant Minsk sanctions relief. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Thursday that the prisoners, along with the U.S. delegation, had crossed into Lithuania. U.S. President Donald Trump had called...

The death toll from two attacks on civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by an Islamic State-affiliated rebel group has risen to 89, Congolese authorities said. Officials said late Tuesday that 71 people were killed at a funeral in Nyoto on Monday, and 18 others were killed in Beni...

Boko Haram militants killed dozens of people in a nighttime assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria that is home to residents who had recently returned from a camp for internally displaced persons, authorities said. The attack on Darul Jamal in the Bama local government area took place late...

Gross rights violations, possibly including war crimes and crimes against humanity, may have been committed by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia and the Congolese military and its affiliates in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to United Nations investigators. A fact-finding mission...

Twenty-six countries have offered to contribute to Ukraine's security after any ceasefire deal with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said after a summit on Thursday, adding that U.S. support would be finalized in coming days. A summit of Kyiv "coalition of the willing" allies to firm up...

The United States and Panama are urging the UN Security Council to authorize a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence. The two countries outlined their proposal to transform the Kenya-led multinational force now deployed in the...