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Middle East latest: Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza

Nov. 04, 2024 04:18 AM EST

Israel said Monday it had terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza, in what appeared to be a step to implement legislation passed last month that would sever ties with the agency and prevent it from operating in...

Israel investigates leaks that appear to have bolstered Netanyahu as Gaza truce talks stalled

Nov. 03, 2024 16:23 PM EST

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as Gaza cease-fire...

Slovak populist premier is in a spat with the UK ambassador to Bratislava over the war in Ukraine

Nov. 01, 2024 15:52 PM EDT

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted angrily on Friday after the U.K. ambassador to Bratislava criticized his interview with Russia’s Rossiya 1 state-owned television, saying, “Slovakia is not Britain’s colony.” “I don’t...

Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires

Oct. 31, 2024 23:48 PM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Rocket barrages from Lebanon into northern Israel killed four foreign workers and three Israelis on Thursday, Israeli medics said, the deadliest cross-border strikes in Israel since it invaded Lebanon. Israel kept up airstrikes it says targeted Hezbollah militants across...

UN extends mandate for UN peacekeepers in Western Sahara, with Algeria protesting over human rights

Oct. 31, 2024 19:48 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in protest at the resolution’s failure to include a reference to monitoring human rights in the disputed north...

Western envoys concerned about arrests and disappearances as Kenya takes UN rights council seat

Oct. 31, 2024 12:15 PM EDT

NAIROBI (AP) — Western envoys in Kenya have raised concerns over reports of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances and urged swift investigations as the country takes up its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. In a joint statement on Thursday, the nine...

India says frontier disengagement with China along their disputed border is 'almost complete'

Oct. 31, 2024 06:44 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have moved most of their frontline troops further from their disputed border in a remote region in the northern Himalayas, India’s defense minister said Thursday, some 10 days after the two countries reached a new pact on military patrols that aims to end a...

At least 14 killed in long-running land dispute between rebel clans in southern Philippines

Oct. 31, 2024 04:47 AM EDT

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — At least 14 people were killed in a long-seething land dispute involving two Muslim guerrilla commanders and their followers in a southern Philippine town, military and civilian officials said Thursday. The fighting erupted Wednesday between the two...

Uganda struggles to feed more than 1.7 million refugees as international support dwindles

Oct. 31, 2024 01:15 AM EDT

RWAMWANJA, Uganda (AP) — For months, Agnes Bulaba, a Congolese refugee in Uganda, has had to get by without the food rations she once depended on. Her children scavenge among local communities for whatever they can find to eat. “As a woman who’s not married, life is hard,”...

Europe's human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum

Oct. 30, 2024 18:47 PM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a U.N.-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months. ...