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King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its "painful" history, as African and Caribbean countries push for reparations for Britain's role in transatlantic slavery.

Israeli strikes since Thursday night killed at least 72 people in Gaza and three journalists in Lebanon on Friday as growing worries about supply shortages in Gaza and international pressure for a ceasefire mounted.

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton. The two astronauts that arrived on Boeing's capsule remain on the space station.

Tropical Storm Trami blew away from the northwestern Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 82 people dead in landslides and extensive flooding that forced authorities to scramble for more rescue boats to save thousands of terrified people, who were trapped, some on their roofs.

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.