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With only days remaining before the expiration of a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, the Trump administration will host a second round of peace talks at the State Department on Thursday.The ambassador-level meeting will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and department counselor Michael Needham.

Peru's planned purchase of 12 F-16 fighter jets from a United States firm has triggered a new political crisis in the South American nation.

Britain and France inked an agreement to tackle small boats carrying asylum seekers attempting to get to England, including the use of riot police.

The European Union on Thursday approved a massive loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, the bloc’s Cypriot presidency said, after oil began flowing through a key pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia,

A commission in Tanzania formed to investigate postelection violence says that at least 518 people died after the October vote. The violence happened amid an internet shutdown and thousands of

The absence of sustained oversight has left lawmakers grasping for basic details about the war’s trajectory even as its economic and political consequences ripple at home. Interviews with more than a dozen lawmakers in both parties reveal a vacuum of information and a lack of urgency from leadership to fill it.

Kyiv - Prince Harry, the younger son of Britain's King Charles, made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Thursday to show his support for the country, which he said is "bravely and successfully defending Europe's eastern flank.