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New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages are renewing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase ending three weeks from now

New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages are renewing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase ending three weeks from now

Israeli officials say Israeli forces have withdrawn from a key Gaza corridor, part of Israel’s commitments under a tenuous ceasefire deal with Hamas

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence will be in focus at a major summit in France this week

Emergency teams in China’s southwestern Sichuan province are racing against time to locate 28 people after a landslide triggered by rains buried their homes

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African country

Polls have opened in a presidential election in Ecuador that is shaped up to be a repeat of the 2023 race, when voters chose a conservative young millionaire over the leftist protegee of the country’s most influential president this century

Ecuadorians have voted in a presidential election that was shaping up to be a repeat of the 2023 race, when they chose a young, conservative millionaire over the leftist protégée of the country’s most influential president this century

Early results in Ecuador's presidential race are tight and indicate a runoff election is likely between conservative President Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González

Kosovars are casting votes in a parliamentary election considered a key test for Prime Minister Albin Kurti as talks on normalizing ties with rival Serbia remain stalled and foreign funding in one of Europe’s poorest countries in question