AP Top International News at 3:04 p.m. EDT

Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms. Officials, soldiers and middlemen are accused of cashing inIran dismisses US economic threats, and other developments in the Middle EastUS carries out its first deportations under pact for Liberia to accept 1,200 non-LiberiansA Russian missile and drone barrage kills at least 16 in Ukraine's Kyiv regionCameroon's President Biya returns after a long stay abroad raises health concernsFACT FOCUS: Social media falsely claims heat wave threatens Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and bankExpress train hits and kills 4 workers at a railway station in JapanWhy Russia’s ballistic missiles are increasingly getting through Ukrainian defensesRescuers recover more bodies after Central African Republic mine collapse kills over 100Croatia orders detention of Ukrainian man wa