Category: 4. World

CAIRO, Egypt — From regulating the price of chicken to levying fees on cigarettes, Hamas is seeking to widen control over Gaza as US plans for its future slowly take shape, Gazans say, adding to rivals’ doubts over whether it will cede…

BEIJING — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday after more than a week’s delay because their original return capsule was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris.

The team left their Shenzhou-20…

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Japan plans to muster former soldiers and retired police officers to hunt down bears, following a record number of human…

KYIV, Ukraine — Four people were killed after Russia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv early Friday, sparking fires and scattering debris across many districts of the capital, Ukrainian authorities said.

At least 27 people were injured…

Russia’s largest Black Sea port, Novorossiysk, has stopped receiving and exporting oil after a massive overnight drone attack early on Nov. 14 damaged the Sheskharis oil-loading terminal, sources told Reuters.

The strike forced Russia’s…

Some 160 Palestinians fleeing Gaza were stranded on their plane at Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo Airport for 12 hours on Thursday before eventually being allowed entry by South African Authorities.

Footage circulating on social media showed a…

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts stranded at their nation’s space station after their spacecraft was apparently hit by space debris departed for home Friday using the craft that had brought a…