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By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A teenage girl, two women and a man were killed overnight in Gaza after walls collapsed onto their tents during rainfall and strong winds that lashed the coastal territory, hospital authorities said Tuesday. Dangerous living conditions have plagued the Palestinian territory,

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid and apparently snubbing U.S.-led peace efforts as the war approaches the four-year mark. Russia fired almost 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Organizers of Australia’s largest free literary festival canceled the event Tuesday after more than 180 writers and speakers withdrew over the scrapping of an appearance by an Australian-Palestinian writer and academic. The uproar began when the board of the Adelaide Festival, which runs Adelaide Writers

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and MAYUKO ONO Associated Press NARA, Japan (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed to step up cooperation in areas including economic security, defense and searching for the remains of Korean forced laborers, as both countries face growing uncertainty and regional challenges. The two

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court heard sentencing arguments Tuesday for former publisher Jimmy Lai’s co-defendants as it moved closer to sentencing the prominent democracy advocate whose conviction under a national security law could land him in prison for life. The jail term’s potential length remained unclear. Former