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Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter ...

Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine on Wednesday in phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the new U.S. president’s first big ...

By Yousef Saba Elon Musk said on Thursday his AI chatbot, and ChatGPT challenger, Grok 3, is in the final stages of development and will be released in about a week ...

Donald Trump and his supporters on Wednesday continued to ramp up their criticism of judges who they say have stymied the Republican U.S. president’s second-term agenda, with billionaire ...

An agreement has been reached for the creation of a Russian naval base in Sudan, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusef Sharif said in a televised press conference in Moscow on ...

Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. representative with little intelligence experience, was confirmed as the top U.S. spy on Wednesday, as Republicans lined up behind a nominee once seen ...

Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney and nominee for deputy attorney-general, on Wednesday dodged questions from lawmakers about whether he will recuse himself from a Justice Department ...

Higher inflation readings reported on Wednesday left Federal Reserve officials telling U.S. lawmakers, business executives and the public that they may be waiting longer than they had thought for ...

Brazil’s agricultural research agency Embrapa, which helped turn the country into a leading grains exporter, is preparing a 12-year research program that could do the same for cannabis cultivation ...

Russian-linked online disinformation networks are spreading faked spy agency warnings of terrorist attacks in Germany ahead of this month’s election in an apparent attempt to sow fear and depress ...

Three detainees have been released from detention in Belarus, including one American, the White House said on Wednesday, without naming those who were released. “We can confirm the safe release ...

Two transgender girls in New Hampshire on Wednesday set in motion the first legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order that would ban them from participating in school ...

Italian police have found and frozen nearly one million euros that was wired to a foreign bank account by a leading businessman after he fell victim to an artificial intelligence ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with environmental agency Ibama this week or the next to discuss Petrobras’ bid to drill for oil near the mouth of ...

Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to escalate a global trade war with further tariffs on European Union goods, as major U.S. trading partners said they would retaliate for trade ...

Representatives of Congo’s powerful Catholic church met on Wednesday with a rebel leader whose Rwandan-backed M23 forces last month seized Goma, the biggest city in the country’s east, ...

Senegal’s Court of Auditors released a long-awaited review of the country’s finances on Wednesday that confirmed the previous government misreported key economic data including debt and deficit figures. ...

Oscar-winning U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is facing another British lawsuit alleging sexual abuse, just over 18 months after he was cleared of all charges in a high-profile criminal trial. Spacey, 65, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump and discussed “opportunities to achieve peace” and the preparation of a document governing ...

The European Commission on Wednesday sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus and seven other European Union member states over their failure to transpose into their national legal systems EU laws ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday congratulated Constantine Tassoulas on his election as president of Greece. “I express my warmest congratulations to Constantine Tassoulas on his election to the highest office,” ...

The head of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church said in remarks published late on Tuesday that “weirdos” were trying to spread paganism in the combat zone in Ukraine and called ...

The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 issued a rare public apology on Wednesday for providing “incorrect information” to London’s High Court over a BBC investigation that ...