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1:03 AM on Friday, April 10

Friday marks six months since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, but progress remains limited

11:45 PM on Thursday, April 9

South Korean Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho vowed to expand access to judicial remedies for victims of state-led abuses, including foreign adoptees whose adoptions were marred by widespread fraud under previous military governments

11:12 PM on Thursday, April 9

Singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem, who is representing Australia at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, says she believes in the power of music

11:12 PM on Thursday, April 9

Negotiators from Iran and the United States prepared Friday for high-level talks planned to start a day later in Islamabad, seeking to steady a ceasefire teetering over Israel and Hezbollah exchanging fire and Tehran’s chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz

11:10 PM on Thursday, April 9

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia in Ukraine

10:45 PM on Thursday, April 9

Taiwan's opposition leader has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the first such encounter in over a decade

10:31 PM on Thursday, April 9

Asian stocks are mostly higher tracking Wall Street gains while oil prices have also risen on the fragile Iran war ceasefire and ahead of Iran-U.S. ceasefire talks that are expected to take place in Pakistan

10:08 PM on Thursday, April 9

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II

10:05 PM on Thursday, April 9

Hundreds of volunteers have joined a "Frog Patrol" initiative in a forest near the Polish capital of Warsaw to help amphibians survive road crossings during their spring mating rituals

10:03 PM on Thursday, April 9

Pope Leo XIV is making a long and ambitious odyssey across four African countries -- Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

9:31 PM on Thursday, April 9

Kuwait has accused Iran of launching drone attacks despite the ceasefire in the Iran war

9:04 PM on Thursday, April 9

President Donald Trump's efforts to exit the war in Iran are causing tension within the Republican Party

9:02 PM on Thursday, April 9

Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, protesters

9:01 PM on Thursday, April 9

President Donald Trump is tasking the member of his inner circle who has seemed to be the most reluctant defender of the conflict with Iran to now find a resolution to the war that began six weeks ago

4:04 PM on Thursday, April 9

Authorities say a man shot and killed a central California sheriff’s deputy while authorities were serving an eviction notice

2:11 PM on Thursday, April 9

Venezuelan lawmakers have approved a bill to regulate mining as the country seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups with ties to the government

1:42 PM on Thursday, April 9

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, even the fate of the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran

11:32 AM on Thursday, April 9

Jayson Tatum wanted to walk off the floor as a winner in his return to Madison Square Garden

12:29 AM on Thursday, April 9

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative

9:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors