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India's PM Narendra Modi has made a number of gestures this week that appear to signal India will not be taking sides with the West and its Asian allies against a Russia-China axis. U.S. and Canadian accusations of murder plots aimed at India's enemies have not helped the West to make its case.

A Los Angeles prosecutor said on Thursday he is asking the court to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez after they have spent more than 30 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, after new evidence emerged indicating they were sexually abused by their father for years.

The mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is to help enforce a UN resolution adopted after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. But as war has broken out again, some observers question whether the peacekeeping force should have that mandate renewed next year.

Benjamin Von Wong is the artist behind Biodiversity Jenga, a six-metre-tall art installation currently looming over COP16, the United Nations biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia.

The Israeli military on Wednesday accused six Palestinian journalists with Al Jazeera of being involved with Hamas or Islamic Jihad militant groups, claims the Qatari news network "vehemently condemns."

Palestinian Civil Defence announced Wednesday it will pull out of northern Gaza, saying its crews, which carry out first responder and search and rescue services, have been targeted by Israeli attacks as they tried to pull survivors — or bodies — from the rubble or offer first-aid to the injured.

Indian authorities shut schools, evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and cancelled trains in parts of the country as rescue teams braced on Thursday for a tropical storm brewing in the Bay of Bengal.

At least 17 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike on a school in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where people displaced by the fighting were sheltering, Nuseirat's Al-Awda hospital said.

Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion known for plenty of on-court grit and off-court attention, and Bob and Mike Bryan, twins who won a record 16 major titles in men's doubles together, are first-ballot selections for the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

The United States does not want a protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, as efforts got underway to hold fresh talks over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza.

An organization that sends volunteers from Canada — and other parts of the world — to work on Israeli military bases is facing a renewed legal challenge, alleging its recruiting efforts violate a federal law against inciting Canadians to join a foreign army.

Donald Trump is now viewed as the slight favourite in several election forecasts, with promising signs for him in swing-state polls, voter-registration data, and early voting. So his supporters have reason for optimism. But they're beyond that. They view victory as inevitable, and defeat as unacceptable.

With just over a week until election day in the United States, here's a look at the celebrities and notable people appearing at campaign rallies in support of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of commander-in-chief he would be.

In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease.

Gisèle Pelicot, the 72-year-old victim of mass rape whose case has shocked the world, told a trial in southern France on Wednesday that in making her case public, she was determined to help other women and change society.

Israeli strikes pounded Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday and Hezbollah said it fired precision guided missiles for the first time at Israeli targets, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured the region, pushing for a halt to fighting in both Gaza and Lebanon.

Turkey's air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defence company that killed five people and wounding more than 20 others.

Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who inspired "Fernandomania" while winning the NL Cy Young Award and rookie of the year in 1981, has died. He was 63.

The United States said for the first time on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that could mark a significant escalation in Russia's war against its neighbour.