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The arrest of Apollo Quiboloy, who is accused of human trafficking and sexual abuse, ended a two-week standoff at his sprawling religious compound in the Philippines.

U.S. decries reported sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

Prince Harry revealed in a new interview that his invasion of privacy lawsuits with British tabloids are a “central piece” in his yearslong tensions within the royal family. NBC’s Kelly Cobiella reports for TODAY.

Eyewitness video provided to an NBC News team in Gaza showed the moments after Israeli tanks and helicopters had targeted a warehouse in the supposed “safe zone” of Al-Mawasi near Rafah.

Hundreds are protesting in France to denounce the alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by two boys her age. NBC News’ Yasmin Vossoughian details the charges amid the rise of antisemitic incidents in France.

Two activists from the Just Stop Oil group were arrested after spraying orange paint on part of the 4,500-year-old stone structure, Stonehenge. The incident came just a day before thousands of people are expected to gather there to celebrate the summer solstice.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told NBC News that “protecting the civilian population is a strategic imperative” in the Gaza Strip, an implicit criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war, which has seen a skyrocketing death toll and a humanitarian crisis that has brought the civilian population to the brink of starvation. Austin made the comments in an interview Thursday with NBC News’ “Nightly News with Lester Holt,” following a D-Day commemoration ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Fr…

A video of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was released Wednesday by Hamas’ military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades. Speaking to the camera in Hebrew, the 23-year-old, whose left arm is severed below his elbow, angrily asks the Israeli government to bring home the hostages, as the war in Gaza entered its 200th day Tuesday. It was unclear when the video was filmed or the conditions under which he spoke, given that he is a Hamas captive. It is likewise not clear if he is still alive. I…

The Israeli military said Saturday that it had recovered the body of an Israeli hostage during an overnight raid in the Gaza Strip. The body of Elad Katzir was returned to Israel after an operation in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the Israel Defense Forces said. According to Israeli military intelligence, Katzir died while being held in captivity by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a militant group that took part in the Oct. 7 attacks alongside Hamas, and is considered a terrorist organizatio…

BEIRUT — A blast injured several United Nations technical observers outside a southern Lebanese border town on Saturday, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the area said — an incident two security sources told Reuters was the result of an Israeli strike. The Israeli military’s spokesman, Avichay Adraee, denied that Israeli forces hit a vehicle belonging to UNIFIL, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, near the town of Rmeish. When asked to clarify whether its forces had hit any non-U.…