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Israel’s military has shared a video purportedly showing a fiery attack on a Hezbollah “terrorist target.” The Israeli Air Force wrote on X that the attack happened overnight, with footage depicting a fireball emerging following an airstrike. Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, has been engaging in border skirmishes with …

HAVANA – Cuba and the United States will debate human rights at a meeting in Washington on Tuesday in another sign of the thaw between the countries trying to re-establish normal diplomatic relations after a 50-year freeze. The discussions seem unlikely to lead to short-term changes in the way either …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkey has delivered two plane-loads of military aid to Iraq. The Anadolu Agency says two C-130 military cargo planes carrying the equipment landed at an air base near Baghdad on Tuesday. It did not give any detail on the supplies. The delivery …

LIMA, Peru – Indigenous communities that sued Occidental Petroleum over contamination in Peru’s northern Amazon have reached an out-of-court settlement in which the California-based oil company will pay them an undisclosed sum. The amount is confidential, under a settlement that was reached in 2013 in Los Angeles federal court but …

BANGKOK – Thailand’s national police chief says the suspects in a weekend grenade attack at a Bangkok courthouse are connected to those behind a bombing at an upscale shopping mall in the capital. Saturday’s attack at the Criminal Court, in which no one was hurt, came five weeks after small …

UNITED NATIONS – Satellite images of Syria show that 83 percent of the country’s lights have gone out over four years of devastating conflict that has left cities shattered and forced millions of people to flee their homes. A global coalition of human rights and humanitarian groups released the analysis …

DAKAR, Senegal – Rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least four civilians as they fled a Congolese army operation, a representative of civil society groups said Thursday. Fighters from the Allied Defense Forces-NALU attacked three villages in region around the town of Beni on Wednesday, according to Omar Kavota, …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s competition watchdog has foreshadowed plans to block a tie up between Qantas Airways and China Eastern Airlines because it could increase fares on the popular Sydney-Shanghai route. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a draft decision Tuesday proposing to deny authorization for Qantas and China …

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Iran’s foreign minister is criticizing Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen but says the focus at nuclear talks between his nation and six world powers remains on reaching a deal. Mohammad Javad Zarif leads the Iranian delegation at the talks. He said Friday that Iran condemns the air attacks …

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s electoral authorities say that the votes in the May presidential election will be counted by hand and calculator because of a lack of a reliable electronic system. The decision by the State Electoral Commission follows a major computer malfunction that largely delayed the vote count in …