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A crisis is underway as the Egyptian border is flooded with fleeing Palestinian refugees

4:25pm February 22, 2024

The Gaza war has created a crisis for Egypt, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees huddled against its border, facing a looming assault from Israeli forces.

Mexico's President strikes back on allegations of his close circle having cartel ties

4:25pm February 22, 2024

by Eyder Peralta

Mexico's President hits back with furious response to allegations that those close to him have ties to drug cartels.

Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves sits during his trial in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 5, 2024. Alves has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub and has been sentenced Alves to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Soccer star Dani Alves is found guilty of rape and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison

12:49pm February 22, 2024

by The Associated Press

Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022.

Fighters carry the coffin of Abu Baqir al-Saadi during his funeral on Feb. 8. He was a senior commander in Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.

What fighting in the Middle East means for the U.S. troop presence in Iraq

7:24am February 22, 2024

by Jane Arraf

After the U.S. killed a commander of an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad, pressure is mounting on Iraq's government to expel America's 2,500 military personnel.

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Suheir Barghouti's son, Saleh Barghouti, was shot dead by the Israeli military in 2018 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Six years later, she still doesn't know where his body is.

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How the dead serve as bargaining chips in the Israel-Hamas conflict

5:05am February 22, 2024

by Greg Myre

Israel and Hamas are both holding the bodies of those killed on the other side, refusing to release them. They've done so for years and are again using the enemy dead as leverage in the current war.

Ivy Chen (left) and Clarissa Wei browse Shuixian Gong Market in Tainan, Taiwan, in January.

Feast your eyes on Taiwan's distinct food (and understand a history of colonization)

5:01am February 22, 2024

Taiwan has endured a long history of colonization. As a trip to the culinary center of Tainan reveals, those outside forces have helped create a cuisine that is distinctly Taiwanese.

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In this photo taken Sept. 5, 2023 Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov attends a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A man shot dead in Spain may be a Russian army defector

4:41am February 22, 2024

by Miguel Macias

A man who was shot dead in the region of Alicante, in Spain, is believed to be Maksim Kuzminov, a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year.

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Bai Yun, the mother of newly named panda cub, Mei Sheng, gets a mouthful of bamboo during the cub's first day on display at the San Diego Zoo on Dec. 17, 2003. China is working on sending a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo.

China says it plans to send more pandas to the San Diego Zoo this year

3:31am February 22, 2024

by The Associated Press

In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised hopes his country would start sending pandas to the U.S. again after he and President Joe Biden convened in Northern California.

How the role of Alexei Navalny's widow, Yulia, has changed since her husband's death

5:44pm February 21, 2024

by Michele Kelemen

Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia has been thrust into the spotlight since her husband's death. Now the woman who always insisted her role was as a wife and a mother, considers her new role as a politician.

Ex-FBI informant has 'extensive' Russian intelligence contacts, lawyers say

5:44pm February 21, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

New information has emerged about the former FBI informant charged with making false bribery claims about the Bidens. Prosecutors say Alexander Smirnov has contacts with Russian intelligence.

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