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With limited access to pads, medicine and toilets – not to mention privacy – Palestinian women talk about the extreme difficulty of managing their periods during Israel’s assault

A state of emergency has been declared after gangs stormed two prisons and freed thousands of inmates. What will it take to restore order?

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Hamas on Tuesday to accept a plan for an "immediate ceasefire" with Israel as mediators met for a third day in Cairo in efforts to end almost five months of fighting. As famine threatens Gazans – and the World Health Organization warned…

International mediators and Hamas delegates were in Cairo Tuesday for talks to try to secure a pause in the war in Gaza ahead of the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons.

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Gazans detained by Israeli forces are coming back "completely traumatized" upon release and reporting abuses while in captivity, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency said Monday.

London urges Berlin to send missiles that have twice the range of UK’s existing offering, and Discord leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty – what we know on day 741

Pramila Patten’s findings are based on interviews with released hostages, whose testimony suggests abuses are continuing in Gaza