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U.S. allies are taking steps to defend or advance their interests in the event former President Donald Trump returns to power in November elections, an even chance based on recent opinion polls in swing states. Lucy Ha has more.

European Union voters are set to be bombarded with lies and disinformation from outside and within the bloc in the June election for the new European Parliament, the president of the assembly, Roberta Metsola, warned on Tuesday (April 23).

The German government plans to resume cooperation with the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in Gaza, the foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday (April 24). Lucy Fielder reports.

The Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday (April 24).

A European Union lawmaker released a dove in the parliament's debating chamber on Wednesday (April 24) in what he said was a call for peace in Europe and the world.

A Russian court on Wednesday ordered one of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's deputies be kept in custody on suspicion of taking bribes, the highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022. Sean Hogan has more.

Fire broke out at fuel and energy facilities in Russia's Smolensk region as a result of a drone attack launched by Ukraine, said Vasily Anokhin, the governor of the western region.

Rescuers in helicopters and on boats raced to evacuate residents trapped in China’s flood-hit Guangdong province on Wednesday (April 24), following record-breaking rains.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday (April 23) approved billions of dollars in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delay, with lawmakers lauding the bipartisan effort in passing the four-bills-in-one package that also clears the way for a potential TikTok ban. Diane To reports.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the country will continue to build overwhelming and the strongest military power to protect its sovereignty and regional peace, the North's KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Devi Rajaram reports.

A live stream caught the moment a Lufthansa Boeing airplane performed a touch-and-go landing in Los Angeles on Tuesday (April 23).

Pro-Palestinian students have set up tent encampments at more campuses across the U.S. to protest Israel's war in Gaza, after mass arrests at similar demonstrations at a handful of mostly East Coast colleges in recent days. Gabe Singer reports.

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday (April 23) in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei's painful austerity measures. Ryan Chang has more.

Donald Trump is “lucky” a $10,000 fine being considered by the judge in his hush money trial for violating a gag order is not more severe, Vida Johnson, an associate law professor at Georgetown University, told Reuters on Tuesday (April 23).

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday (April 23) in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei's painful austerity measures.

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump hosted former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday (April 23).

Omar Assad's 81-year-old widow still hopes to see justice served against the Israeli soldiers she blames for his death two years ago in the occupied West Bank, but isn't pinning hope on any action the United States might take against their battalion. Rachel Faber reports.

Dust from the Sahara desert covered the city of Athens in Greece on Tuesday (April 23).

An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested on suspicion of "especially severe" espionage for China, the latest in a spate of such arrests across Europe. Kristy Kilburn reports.

Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed. Angela Johnston explains.

Columbia University students came back for in-person classes on Tuesday (April 23) with some students, like Ava Lyon-Sereno, sharing their frustrations about recent actions taken by the school's administration following student protests.

Five people, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the English Channel from France on Tuesday (April 23), hours after Britain passed a bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda to try to deter the dangerous crossings. Lauren Anthony reports.

A Russian court on Tuesday (April 23) rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage.

Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more than 250 years ago were on Tuesday (April 23) returned by the University of Cambridge to descendants of the indigenous community which crafted them, in the latest high-profile repatriation of artefacts. Fiona Jones reports.

U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to spokesperson for the High Commissioner Ravina Shamdasani. This video contains graphic content.