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Hamas calls quits on beach time for Gaza's dogs

Steve, a German Shepherd, used to get his morning exercise by frolicking on Gaza's Mediterranean beaches. But since the Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers Hamas imposed a ban on exercising pet dogs in public in mid-June, owner Ossama Al-Dahdouh has to walk Steve on the roof of his...

Ukraine firefighters beat back fatal forest blazes

Forest fires in eastern Ukraine that have killed five people and left dozens homeless are being brought under control by firefighters, officials said on Wednesday. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the situation was improving and he had seen no new fires during a fly-over with...

Libyan migrant centers are like concentration camps: pope

Pope Francis Wednesday compared migrant detention centers in Libya to concentration camps, saying the world was being given only a diluted version of how hellish life really was for the people living there. The pope, who has in the past called for the camps to be closed, made his...