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US Adm. John Aquilino said China’s military is building up at a rate not seen since World War II....

In a written response published Monday by the International Court of Justice, Israel said that claims by South Africa in its request filed earlier this month are “wholly unfounded in fact and law, morally repugnant, and represent an abuse both of the Genocide Convention and of the Court itself.”

Israeli forces have destroyed the main surgical building at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, following four days of siege....

Civil servants and volunteers, helping to secure food trucks for Gazans, have been repeatedly targeted by Israeli fire.

Germany’s birth rate fell to the lowest level in more than a decade last year, adding to concerns about how a shrinking workforce may dent the country’s economic prospects....

Fascism has taken over India, devouring the democracy.

The legislation targets “external interference” and the theft of state secrets, with implications for businesses, journalists, civil servants and others....

A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin and is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries to get a hand on the levers of power....

The Vietnamese Communist Party has accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, the government said on Wednesday, in a sign of political turmoil that could hurt foreign investors’ confidence in the country....

More than 1,200 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have been forced from their homes since the conflict started, according to rights groups and the United Nations.

[The World] Bank said urgent action was needed to prevent widespread deaths from starvation within the next two months.

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further....