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Vigils, commemorations and acts of remembrance are being held across the world to mark a year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as leaders call for an end to antisemitism and the release of Israeli hostages

Commemorations and protests are being held across the world to mark a year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

UNICEF says that recent fighting between the Sudanese military and its rival paramilitary in Sudan’s North Darfur killed at least 13 children and injured four others

Ukraine’s military says it struck a major oil terminal in Crimea that provides fuel for Russia’s war effort

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine for discovery of microRNA

A Russian court has sentenced a 72-year-old American to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine

The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned the drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in many places

Zaw Myint Maung, a senior member of Myanmar’s former ruling party arrested during the 2021 military takeover, has died

The Nobel prizes award season is kicking off with the announcement of the winner of this year’s medicine award

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny pieces of genetic material that alter how genes work at the cellular level