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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Sunday that it believes Hamas terrorists have developed cruise missile capabilities with help from Tehran. In a press release that was obtained by the Times of Israel, the Israeli military said that it found evidence of the advanced capabilities during a raid in …

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian lawmakers have approved a proposal to end presidential re-election. Opposition congresswoman Tatiana Cabello told The Associated Press that lawmakers in the House of Representatives, after the eighth and final debate in both legislative houses, voted 90-10 in favor of prohibiting presidents from seeking re-election. The bill …

BEIRUT – The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says “millions” of Israelis will be displaced in case of a new conflict between the Shiite group and the Jewish state. Friday’s remarks by Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally in southern Beirut, were in response to a comment from Israel …

WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of NATO troops with heavy equipment are taking part in the Noble Jump military exercises in Poland, the first one that tests the alliance’s rapid response readiness in the face of new security challenges on its eastern flank. The so-called spearhead force was agreed upon at …

MILAN – American Amanda Knox, who was exonerated by Italy’s highest court of her roommate’s brutal murder after multiple trials, is facing a new trial in Italy on a charge of slandering police. Knox is charged with slander for testifying that her false accusation that a Congolese bar owner murdered …

NIAMEY, Niger – The International Organization for Migration says the bodies of 18 migrants who likely died of dehydration have been found in the Sahara desert in northern Niger. Giuseppe Loprete, the IOM’s chief of mission in Niger, said in a statement Sunday that the migrants were believed to have …

DAKAR, Senegal – Officials say 30 more people have been found dead after they attempted to cross the Sahara desert in Niger. The victims were believed to be headed to Libya, where many migrants then attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Local authorities say the victims probably died …

BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing Germany’s European Union partners to share the burden of hosting a surge of asylum-seekers, arguing that solidarity should be a “matter of course.” The bloc’s 28 members are at odds over an EU plan to divide up refugees arriving largely in Italy and …

SKOPJE, Macedonia – The leaders of Macedonia’s main political parties have resumed meeting in country’s capital of Skopje for the first time since negotiations aimed ending a major political crisis collapsed in Brussels last week. The political crisis, one of the deepest Macedonia has faced since gaining independence from Yugoslavia …

BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country have killed at least eight people. A police officer says gunmen in two SUVs opened fire, killing two policemen and a civilian who were traveling in a civilian car in Baghdad’s eastern Baladiyat neighborhood. He says that …