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Parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a young Israeli-American man who has been held captive in Gaza since Hamas' October 7 attack, made a plea to negotiating parties. Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin told their son to "stay strong" after seeing him in a Hamas-released video on Wednesday (April 24).

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday (April 24) that he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife's private dealings. Olivia Zollino reports.

Eyewitness video from Athens, Greece, showed an orange sky after dust from the Sahara Desert covered the city on Tuesday (April 23).

Raging floods continued to inundate parts of Kenya over the weekend, forcing thousands of families to flee their homes and seek refuge as heavy rains persisted across more than two dozen counties.

President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks reelection and ending months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress. Alex Cohen has more.

A pre-Roman necropolis was discovered in southern Italy during excavations for the construction of a future electricity station.

The European Parliament approved a proposed law on Wednesday (April 24) that would ban certain single-use plastic packaging like mini shampoo bottles in hotels and thin plastic bags for groceries, in an attempt to curb the rising tide of packaging waste. Larissa Copello, a campaigner at non-profit group Zero Waste Europe, said the legislation was a "step forward" but more needs to be done.

'Three-nil' said Nika Hladka, smiling after her bar in Kharkiv survived a third Russian strike since her country was invaded in February 2022. She told Reuters on Wednesday (April 24) she planned to repair the bar's interior and had no plans to leave Kharkiv despite frequent Russian strikes on the eastern city.

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.