Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine for the second straight day on Tuesday as government forces rolled out an offensive against separatist rebels holding the city of Sloviansk, with reports of fatalities on both sides.
US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that the United States plans to boost its military presence in Europe in response to growing tensions between Russia and its European neighbors.
Israel's prime minister said on Tuesday he is "deeply troubled" by the United States' decision to maintain relations with the new Palestinian unity government, urging Washington to tell the Palestinian president that his alliance with the Hamas militant group is unacceptable.
Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election expected to deliver an overwhelming victory for President Bashar al-Assad in the midst of a devastating civil war, with opponents dismissing the poll as a charade.
Monarch dogged by scandals and health problems in recent years
Spain's Crown Prince Felipe de Borbon, a tall former Olympic yachtsman, will take the throne largely unscathed by scandals that have battered the royal family.
A onetime rural schoolteacher who became a rebel commander during El Salvador's long civil war was sworn in as president on Sunday, the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American nation.
Japan started work on an underground ice wall on Monday at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, freezing the soil under broken reactors to slow the buildup of radioactive water, officials said.
A long-awaited Palestinian unity government was sworn in before President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday after a landmark reconciliation deal with the Islamist group Hamas that has infuriated Israel.
A suspected French jihadist who spent time in Syria has been arrested over the shooting deaths of three people at a Belgian Jewish museum, prosecutors said on Sunday, crystallizing fears that European radicals will parlay their experiences in Syria into terrorism back home.
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