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US President Joe Biden in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed additional efforts to support the ally's defense capabilities and committed new US military deployments to the region amid raised tensions between Israel and Iran, the White House said.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has led funeral prayers for Hamas's Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh and his security guard, who were assassinated during his visit to Tehran on Wednesday.

Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli regime's recent assassination of a senior commander of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, vowing that the regional resistance forces would stay the course despite the atrocity.

Forces opposing Israel must deliver a "dangerous" military response to the killings of their leaders in Lebanon and Iran, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, said on Thursday.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the EU- and U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, will not influence the peace process toward ending the Israeli-Hamas war "because peace is not on the agenda at this point."

The killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the EU- and U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, has thrown the Middle East into crisis.

Famine is now prevalent in areas of war-torn Sudan and will continue through the next two months, according to a new global food insecurity report released on Thursday.

A United Nations-backed food security report concluded Thursday that more than a year of war in Sudan has pushed parts of North Darfur into famine, including a displaced persons camp that houses more than a half-million people.

Residents of Kastigarh, a sub-district in central Jammu and Kashmir, say they are staying close to their homes following a recent attack by anti-India militants that injured two soldiers who were sheltering in a dilapidated school after a patrol.

In villages and towns across Hungary, adoring crowds gather to hear Peter Magyar speak, their enthusiasm spilling over onto social media where they post selfies taken with the 43-year-old opposition politician.

A widely criticized new law that threatens to publicly discredit thousands of media outlets and civil society groups as "serving" outside powers went into effect in Georgia on August 1, two months after the ruling party swept aside a maelstrom of domestic protest and international warnings that passage endangers further integration with the West.

The fight against impunity must continue in Guinea, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday, welcoming the long-awaited verdict in the trial into the 2009 massacre at a stadium in the capital, Conakry.

Thousands have taken to the streets in Nigerian cities in anti-government protests against the high cost of living in the country, driven by crippling inflation and a devalued currency.

Russia is fully satisfied with the prisoner exchange, a credible source in one of the competent Russian agencies told Sputnik on Thursday.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stated that eight Russian citizens, who were detained and imprisoned in several NATO countries, have been returned to Russia. The exchange took place at Ankara airport (Turkiye) on August 1, 2024, and also included the repatriation of minor children.

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A Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official set to be posted to Taiwan's representative office in Macao was unable to obtain a visa from the Macao government after refusing to sign an affidavit recognizing Beijing's "One China" principle, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said Thursday.

Nearly 90 junta administrators in western Myanmar abandoned their posts after opponents of military rule warned them not to support the regime, pro-democracy representatives said on Wednesday.