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The U.S. government has raised its travel alert level for Jamaica amid a spate of murders in the Caribbean nation, urging Americans to reconsider visiting the island “due to crime and [unreliable] medical services.” The State Department announced the change, to its Level 3 travel advisory, for Jamaica just a few days after it issued a warning about the Bahamas, …

Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war Wednesday, officials in both countries said, exactly a week after Moscow accused Ukraine of shooting down a military transport plane carrying dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers. Moscow said the plane was brought down by Ukrainian missiles over far-Western Russia on its way to a prisoner swap, killing everyone on board. The …

London — The United Kingdom “will look at the issue of recognizing a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations,” British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Monday at a London reception for Arab ambassadors. The U.K., like the United States, supports a two-state solution to the decades-old crisis in the Middle East, whereby Israelis and Palestinians would negotiate an end …

Jenin, West Bank — Undercover Israeli agents, some disguised as medical staff, raided a West Bank hospital Tuesday and shot dead three Palestinians whom the army alleged were Palestinian militants planning a terror attack, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials. The raid in Jenin was the first such operation in eight years, and it drew quick condemnation from the Palestinian …

Cairo— Archaeologists have launched a huge project to restore the smallest of Giza’s three famous pyramids to what they believe it looked like when it was built more than 4,000 years ago. An Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission announced the project to put back in place hundreds of granite blocks that used to form the outer casing of the pyramid of King …

A shark mauled a woman in the first attack in Sydney Harbor in 15 years, officials said Tuesday, sending her to hospital with a serious leg injury. The predator struck Monday evening as the woman swam off a wharf at Elizabeth Bay, about 1.2 miles from Sydney Opera House, police said. The woman suffered a “serious injury to her right …

Islamabad — A Pakistani court convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets on Tuesday and sentenced him to 10 years – the latest in a slew of legal cases that supporters say are meant to sideline the imprisoned former cricket star just days ahead of parliamentary elections. The Islamist politician, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote …

Britain’s King Charles III was discharged from a private London hospital after a scheduled treatment for an enlarged prostate, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Monday. The palace said the monarch had “rescheduled forthcoming public engagements to allow for a period of private recuperation.” The palace said when it first announced his upcoming the procedure that the king’s condition is …

London— Catherine, the Princess of Wales, or Kate, as she’s known to most of the world, was back at her home in Windsor, England on Monday and “making good progress” in her recovery from abdominal surgery, Kensington Palace said in a statement. The nature of the future queen’s medical procedure has not been revealed, but the palace announced on Jan. …

Tel Aviv, Israel — An Israeli intelligence document shared on Monday with CBS News and a number of other Western news outlets spells out allegations against a dozen U.N. employees whomIsrael says participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack. The document claims seven staff members of UNRWA, the U.N. humanitarian agency that helps Palestinian refugees, stormed into Israeli territory during …