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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. (Jan. 10) AP

A fatal shooting left a teenager dead in the village of Beit Rima. It is the latest incident in which

The Associated Press explains who the Houthi rebels in Yemen are and why are they attacking Red Sea ships. (Jan

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer, and his recent secretive hospitalization was for surgery and later to treat a

The first U.S. moon landing attempt in more than 50 years appeared to be doomed after a private company’s spacecraft

Huge swathes of the downtown area in war-ravaged Gaza City have been heavily damaged, leaving many streets completely unrecognizable. (Jan

Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's

Ukraine's two largest cities came under attack early Tuesday from Russian missiles that killed five people and injured as many

An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three

White House spelled out details of the multlateral response aimed at protecting ships transiting the Red Sea that have come