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A global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.

At an international forum, the secretary of state said artificial intelligence’s ability to disrupt the global flow of information could prove politically perilous during a year of elections.

The Russian leader claimed he had been ready to release Navalny in a prisoner swap when the opposition leader died last month at an Arctic penal colony.

President Vladimir V. Putin is expected to use the scale of his victory to justify more aggression in Ukraine. Many Russians are uneasy about what comes next.

A rubber-stamp presidential election with no real competition allows Vladimir Putin to claim strong public support for his domestic dominance and the invasion of Ukraine.

The authorities said the eruption on Saturday night was the most powerful of a series that started in December.

The West African country’s military junta said the presence of U.S. forces was “illegal.” Increasingly, West Africans are questioning the motives of Western countries operating in Africa.

The Israeli leader lashed back at a call from a prominent Democratic senator for elections in Israel.

The Israeli prime minister said Senator Chuck Schumer’s call for elections in Israel had been “totally inappropriate.”

An oil refinery was set on fire in southern Russia and air defense forces shot down two drones flying toward Moscow, officials said, as Ukraine continued a flurry of attacks timed for the election.