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FARDIS, Lebanon (AP) — Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, an energetic 11-year-old with a love for basketball and language learning, was playing soccer a week ago in Majdal Shams, a Druze village situated in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, when tragedy struck as a rocket landed. Ayman, her father, rushed to the scene, desperate for news of his daughter. "I saw a little girl in a body bag," he recounted, as he recognized her from her shoes and her delicate hand. "At that moment, I

MADRID (AP) — On Tuesday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declined to testify at the official residence as part of an ongoing probe into accusations of corruption involving his wife, according to legal representatives. Sánchez, a longstanding figure among socialist leaders in Europe, is not legally compelled to provide testimony against his wife, as dictated by Spanish law. The brief session, lasting only a few minutes, saw Sánchez invoke his right to remain silent, according to several

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, have signed a declaration in Beijing seeking to resolve their longstanding discord, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. This marks a fresh effort to bridge the divide between the groups as the war in Gaza continues to escalate. The agreement emerged after a series of discussions aimed at promoting unity. However, past efforts have consistently fallen short, leading to skepticism regarding whether these

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities announced Sunday that over 50 individuals were detained after violent confrontations between police and demonstrators intending to disrupt a march attended by hundreds of far-right activists in the Austrian capital. The protests, which unfolded on Saturday, occurred as Austria's political landscape heats up ahead of the September parliamentary elections, where significant gains by far-right parties are widely anticipated. According to the Austrian Press Agency,

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian artillery strikes in the Kherson region of Ukraine claimed the lives of two individuals, local authorities announced, as the two nations engaged in a series of drone offensives throughout Friday night, into the early hours of Saturday. Two additional individuals sustained injuries in the shelling near the regional capital, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, governor of the partially occupied Kherson region. In Russia’s southern Rostov province, a drone strike by

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian rights organization revealed on Thursday that at least 10 political prisoners have been released, following a commitment made this week by the nation's authoritarian leader to set seriously ill detainees free, all of whom were imprisoned in relation to mass protests nearly four years ago. Pavel Sapelko, a representative from the Viasna human rights group, informed The Associated Press that those who were released are not prominent individuals whose