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Hamas fired a barrage of rockets toward Tel Aviv after Israel bombed a number of targets connected to the militant group in Gaza, as fighting escalated after a year of war.

Ukrainian hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down online broadcasts of Russian state television and radio channels on Monday, according to an official in Kyiv with knowledge of the operation.

The European Union is progressing toward a package of sanctions targeting Iran for providing Russia with ballistic missiles, according to people familiar with the matter.

Israel carried out huge bombing raids on Hezbollah targets near Beirut airport alongside ground attacks in southern Lebanon, while Iran’s leader called on the Arab world to unite amid the escalating conflict.

The Israeli military unleashed an intense bombing campaign against an underground bunker near Beirut early Friday in a bid to target Hashem Safieddine, a cousin and the presumed successor of the assassinated Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to three Israeli officials.

Mark Rutte said he will make increased weapons production a priority as he arrived in Kyiv for his first foreign visit as NATO’s new chief.

Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate against Iran after it fired about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, a major escalation that world powers fear could spiral into a Middle East-wide war.

The death toll from a school bus fire in Thailand has risen to at least 23, local media reported on Wednesday.

MEXICO CITY — Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who jumped from academia to the rocky world of politics, took office Tuesday as Mexico’s first woman president. Her inauguration shatters a political glass ceiling in a nation with a long legacy of machismo, where women did not win the right to vote until 1953. “For a long time, women were sidelined,” Sheinbaum said after taking the oath of ...

 Iran launched a missile strike Tuesday against Israel, hours after Israel invaded Lebanon with ground troops for the first time in decades.

About midway through a half marathon Sunday, a new competitor joined the race in Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador province. He had neither registered nor picked up a bib, but he had grit - he had broken free of his metal collar to run alongside the 255 other racers, who embraced the fresh competition. The new racer: Joshua, a 10-year-old goat who lives on a pumpkin patch.

Russia is locking up its finest.

Russian troops entered a Ukrainian outpost on the eastern front line as Kremlin forces ground their way forward in an offensive that authorities in Kyiv have struggled to stem.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said ground forces would be part of efforts to remove Hezbollah from southern Lebanon, an indication that incursions across the border may be coming.

Israel bombed the center of Beirut for the first time in almost a year of hostilities with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, stepping up air assaults following the killing of the Iran-backed group’s chief last week.

The Israeli military said it struck the main headquarters of Hezbollah on Friday as residents of Beirut reported large blasts and smoke billowing from neighborhoods in the south of the city. Images and videos shared on social media verified by The Washington Post and accounts from witnesses suggested that the blasts occurred in the southwestern suburbs of the Lebanese capital not far from the city’s airport.

The U.S. Justice Department announced charges against three people for allegedly carrying out an Iranian-backed operation to hack the campaign of former President Donald Trump.

In a speech in Brussels on Friday, Pope Francis denounced the sexual abuse of minors by priests as a "disgrace" that the Catholic Church must seek forgiveness for.