Shells hit power lines at Ukraine nuclear plant, fighting in east
Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Friday of shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant as fighting raged again in the crucial border region of the Donbas and three ...
Israel-Gaza fighting spills into second day with air strikes, rockets
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza and Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israeli cities on Saturday as fighting ran into a second day, ending more than a year ...
Renewed US-Iran talks to salvage nuclear deal are ‘serious’ -Russian envoy
Russia’s envoy to talks on reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal said on Friday they had resumed in a “serious” atmosphere even as few expect a breakthrough compromise while Tehran’...
China halts high-level military dialogue with US., suspends other cooperation
China is halting cooperation with the United States in a number of areas, including dialogue between senior-level military commanders and climate talks, in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s ...
Hungary’s Orban takes swipe at President Biden at US Texas conservatives conference
U.S. and Hungarian conservatives must join forces in 2024 elections to “take back” institutions in Washington and Brussels from liberals who threaten western civilization, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on ...
Furious China fires missiles near Taiwan in drills after Pelosi visit
China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles near Taiwan on Thursday in its biggest drills in the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker ...
Wildfires in Europe burn second-biggest area on record
Wildfires raging through Europe this summer have burned the second-largest area on record, even though the region is only halfway through its typical fire season, according to data from the ...
South Africa reports first death causally linked to Covid vaccine
South Africa’s health regulator reported on Thursday a causal link between the death of an individual and Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) JNJ.N COVID-19 vaccine, the ...
Ukraine accuses Russia of blocking aid convoy to besieged Mariupol
Ukraine accused Russia on Tuesday of blocking a convoy trying to take supplies to the besieged city of Mariupol, where the Red Cross said desperate families were being “suffocated” as ...
Aid struggles to reach remote areas of Haiti quake zone
Damaged or impassable roads were complicating efforts on Friday to deliver aid to more remote parts of Haiti devastated by an earthquake last weekend that killed more than 2,000 people.
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