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Voters in war-torn Myanmar cast ballots in the second stage of an election dominated so far by a party backed by the ruling military, as the junta sought to gloss ...

The number of prisoners released in Venezuela has risen to 18, human rights groups said on Saturday. Nine released prisoners had been confirmed as of Friday afternoon. Venezuela has started releasing ...

Iran’s authorities indicated on Saturday they could intensify their crackdown on the biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, with the Revolutionary Guards blaming unrest on terrorists and vowing to safeguard ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Talaud Islands on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 77 ...

Thousands of people took to the streets of the cities of Aden and Mukalla in southern Yemen on Saturday in support of the country’s main separatist group, the Southern ...

Kyiv’s water and heating systems were back on after being briefly shut down amid intense cold on Saturday, as engineers scrambled to stabilise a power grid brought to the ...

The Syrian army has combed through Aleppo city’s Sheikh Maksoud district, it said on Saturday, signalling it had seized the area from Kurdish fighters by force after a temporary ...

Civil liberties and migrant-rights groups called for nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of an activist in Minnesota by a US immigration agent, as state authorities opened ...

By Arash Beidollahkhani Protests that began in late December over rising prices and a collapsing currency have now spread to most of Iran’s 31 provinces, with demonstrators taking aim at ...

Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States was quoted as saying on Friday that Ukrainian nationals were among members of the crew of the Russian-flagged tanker Bella-1, seized this week ...

The Venezuelan government on Friday said interim president Delcy Rodriguez is not due to carry out any international trips in the near future, after Colombian President Gustavo Petro suggested there ...

Minnesota authorities on Friday said they were opening their own probe into a US Immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman in her car, after some state and ...

EU states gave the go-ahead on Friday for the bloc to sign its largest free trade accord with the South American group Mercosur, more than 25 years after talks began, following ...

Swiss prosecutors summoned on Friday the two owners of a ski resort bar where a fire on New Year’s Day killed 40 people and a local newspaper said one of ...

President Vladimir Putin’s launch of an Oreshnik hypersonic missile appears aimed at intimidating Ukraine and sending a signal of Russian military might to Europe and the United States at ...

Thousands of homes were blacked out, aircraft were grounded and train services disrupted as Storm Goretti hurled gale-force winds and heavy snow at northern Europe on Friday, compounding a week ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had canceled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela following cooperation from the South American nation. The president said on Friday that Venezuela ...

Iran was largely cut off from the outside world on Friday after authorities blacked out the internet to curb expanding protests, with phone calls not reaching the country, flights cancelled ...

At least 17 flights between Dubai and Iranian cities including Tehran, Shiraz and Mashhad scheduled for Friday and operated by flydubai have been cancelled, the Dubai Airports website showed. The website ...

For nearly eight decades, newspapers have served as a steady source of information for readers navigating political change, economic shifts, and everyday life. While the medium has evolved, from print ...

Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland, in what Kyiv’s European allies described as an attempt to intimidate ...

Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli on Thursday night said his country’s government “rejects” the use of terms including “occupation”, “invasion”, and “division” during speeches made at Wednesday night’...

Tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown rose across the United States after the second shooting involving immigration officers in two days, deepening rifts between state and ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has strongly criticised U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump and urged the world not to let the world order disintegrate into a “den of ...