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Palestinians ran for cover after a strike near the Al-Shifa hopsital in Gaza City on Nov. 1, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.

After weeks in besieged Gaza, some foreign nationals and wounded Palestinians are allowed to leave

Israeli ground troops have advanced to “the gates of Gaza City” in heavy fighting with militants, the military said Wednesday, as hundreds of foreign nationals and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza.

Frustrated Zelensky says Ukraine’s war effort is being underestimated
“The modern world quickly gets accustomed to success,” Zelensky said in his nightly address Tuesday, complaining that Ukrainian troops’ achievements “are perceived as a given.”

Bolivia cuts diplomatic ties with Israel over strikes in Gaza
Bolivia has severed relations with Israel over its strikes on the Gaza Strip, a diplomatic decision that Israel condemned as a “surrender to terrorism” even as its own ties with other countries in Latin America began to fray.

Researchers hope tracking senior Myanmar army officers can ascertain blame for human rights abuses

A group of human rights researchers officially launched a website Wednesday that they hope will help get justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar, where one of the world’s less-noticed but still brutal armed struggles is taking place.

Does a two-state solution, long discounted, still have a future?
The two-state solution — Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in their own sovereign countries — is getting a new hearing, not just in foreign-policy circles in Washington, London and Paris but also, more quietly, among the combatants themselves. In part, it reflects the lack of any other viable alternative.

Biden arrives in Israel as Medway family remains trapped in Gaza
Biden arrived in Israel on Oct. 18, hoping to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading and to encourage the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Lines form at a gas station in Khan Younis as fuel shortages in Gaza persist
Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, leading to shortages of fuel and other necessary provisions.

Medway family unsuccessful in attempts to cross through Gaza border crossing, shown here
Okal and his family have tried to cross into Egypt several times through the Rafah border crossing but have not been allowed to leave Gaza.

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People throughout Gaza are finding it increasingly difficult to access water after Israel cut off the supply to Gaza in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. 4:51 p.m.

Refugee camp hit by Israeli airstrikes just a few kilometers from Medway family in Jabaliya

Israeli airstrikes caused widespread destruction in Gaza following the surprise attack by Hamas on Oct. 7. 4:50 p.m.

Two Belarusian passports are displayed in Tallinn, Estonia, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Belarus has stopped renewing passports at its embassies abroad, and hundreds of thousands of Belarusians who have fled President Alexander Lukashenko's repressive regime cannot update their travel documents without returning home and risking possible arrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Belarusians who fled repression face new hurdles as they try to rebuild their lives abroad

Belarus has stopped renewing passports at its embassies abroad under a new decree by authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. 4:27 p.m.

Germany Interior Minister Nancy Faeser gave a press statement on a new bill to facilitate migrant deportation in Berlin, on Oct. 25.

German government plans to allow asylum-seekers to work sooner and punish smugglers harder

The package backed by the Cabinet on Wednesday, which still requires parliamentary approval, is the latest in a series of steps taken recently by the government as it tries to defuse migration as a major political problem. 4:14 p.m.

Britain's King Charles III, delivers his speech during the State Banquet hosted by Kenyan President William Ruto at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 31.

King Charles III visits war cemetery in Kenya after voicing ‘deepest regret’ for colonial violence

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Afghans wait for clearance to depart for their homeland at a deportation camp set up by authorities to facilitate illegal immigrants, in Chaman, a town on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, on Nov. 1.

Dozens of Afghans who were illegally in Pakistan are detained and deported in nationwide sweeps

Pakistani security forces have launched sweeps to arrest and deport Afghans who are in the country illegally, sending dozens back after a government-set deadline for them to leave expired. 4:07 a.m.

Palestinians looked for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed building following Israeli airstrikes in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Israel carries out wide-scale strike in Northern Gaza

Several hundred thousand Palestinians remain in northern Gaza in the path of the ground assault. They have crowded into homes or are packed by the thousands into hospitals that are already overwhelmed with patients and running low on supplies. 1:26 a.m.

An Israeli tank, seen from Sderot, Israel, operates in the Gaza Strip, on Oct. 30.

Israeli troops battle in Gaza as airstrike draws conflicting claims

Israeli troops and tanks fought their way deeper into the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to Israeli and Gaza officials, who described battles with Hamas fighters and troop movements drawing closer to the territory’s main city and the warren of tunnels beneath it. 12:56 a.m.