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Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win. Putin still commands wide support after nearly a quarter-century in power, d...
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The mood is about to shift, the hours grow longer and the already high sense of urgency somehow amp up even more as the United Nations climate summit heads into its final week.Every sentence, every word — especially those about the future elimination of planet-warming fossil fuels — will...
Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians in a 24-hour period, Palestinian health officials said Sunday, as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day.Violence in the West Bank has surged in the weeks since...
The top diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China met Sunday to discuss when to resume their leaders’ trilateral summit after a four-year hiatus and how to strengthen cooperation among the three Northeast Asian neighbors. Closely linked economically and culturally with one another, the ...
Pakistan security forces killed four militants in a shootout during an overnight raid in the country’s northwest near the border with Afghanistan, the military said Sunday.A military statement said security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Khaisoor area of North Wazirist...
The Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee was scheduled on Thursday to start debating Sweden’s bid to join NATO, drawing the previously non-aligned country closer to membership in the Western military alliance.Once green-lighted by the committee, Sweden’s accession protoco...
Pakistan's military said it foiled an attack by militants on a training air base in eastern Punjab province early Saturday, killing all nine assailants.The troops' “swift and effective response” thwarted the attack at Mianwali Training Air Base, keeping its personnel and assets s...
Israeli troops battling Hamas militants encircled Gaza City on Thursday, the military said, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. U.S. and Arab leaders raised pressure on Israel to ease its siege of Gaza and at least briefly halt its attacks in order to aid civilians.Nearly four weeks afte...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically ruled out a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas Monday, as ground forces pushed into Gaza and freed one hostage.“Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism,” Netanyahu said, slappin...
Israeli airstrikes pounded locations across the Gaza Strip early Thursday, including parts of the south that Israel had declared as safe zones, heightening fears among more than 2 million Palestinians trapped in the territory that nowhere was safe. In the nearly two weeks since a devastating Ha...
As the days the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Election are nearing, a huge interest is being noticed among the voters about the possible candidates in the elections from both the ruling and the opposition parties in the Satkhira-4 constituency. The Satkhira-4 constituency comprised 20 unions of Shyamnaga...
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Watching the pulverized alleys of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza empty of people, Naji Jamal was frozen with indecision.Should he heed the Israeli army's demand that all Palestinians evacuate and make the risky trip to Gaza's south, where his only certainty was homelessness? Or shoul...
Collapsed buildings, mangled infrastructure, streets turned into fields of rubble.Scenes of violence and destruction in the long-blockaded Gaza Strip have filled the world’s airwaves throughout four wars and countless rounds of hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants. But this conflict,...
Rescuers found more bodies overnight as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan northeast, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee.Officials said the hundreds of rescuers recov...
In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past.Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, thousands of years later — from Roman engineers who poured thick concrete sea barriers, to Maya masons who crafted ...
The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day.Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back strict prohibitions, although there are still few countries with a total ban...
Six young people argued that governments across Europe aren't doing enough to protect people from climate change at the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday in the latest and largest instance of activists taking governments to court to force climate action.Legal teams for the 32 nations &...
Japan's health ministry has approved Leqembi, a drug for Alzheimer’s disease that was jointly developed by Japanese and US pharmaceutical companies. It's the first drug for treatment of the disease in a country with a rapidly aging population.Developed by Japanese drugmaker Eisai ...
AP, WashingtonThe U.S. Treasury Department and China’s Ministry of Finance launched a pair of economic working groups on Friday in an effort to ease tensions and deepen ties between the nations.Led by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Vice Premier He Lifeng, the working groups will be ...
Americans detained for years in Iran arrived home Tuesday after being freed as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets.The prisoners landed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with clapping and cheers heard in the predaw...
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