Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday have killed at least 45 people, including several women and a week-old infant.

Israel is pressing ahead with its new military offensive in Gaza despite mounting international criticism.

The United Nations and human rights activists are warning about an increase in pregnant women being deported from the Dominican Republic to Haiti where they say their lives are being put at risk.

A Sudanese activist group says the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked a city in the western Darfur region, killing more than 30 people.

Yemen's Houthi rebels say the U.S. military has launched a series of airstrikes on the capital, Sanaa, and a rebel-held coastal city.

The United Nations has said it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer and wounding five others.

Congo’s largest church organizations have met with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east to advocate for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting.

Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others.

Eleven Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen’s Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances.

Caribbean officials say a plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country.

Small and subtle, the blue ribbons worn by many celebrities at the Oscars nonetheless had an important message: support refugees.

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands have suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross say, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation.