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Philippines says it agrees with China to 'de-escal...
The Philippines and China agreed on Tuesday to "de-escalate tensions" over the South China Sea, Manila said, following a violent c...
Biden, aides urged to be open about his health
Democrats shocked by Joe Biden's dismal debate performance urged the US president Tuesday to be transparent about his mental fitne...
Thousands of Palestinians flee as Israel pounds Ga...
Palestinians fled parts of southern Gaza in droves on Tuesday as Israeli forces ordered evacuations and launched deadly strikes am...
80% of Gazans now displaced: UN humanitarian coord...
The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza said Tuesday that 1.9 million people -- 80 percent of the territory's population -- were...
Tear gas, rocks, and looting: Kenya police and pro...
Crowds in Kenya's capital Nairobi lobbed rocks and looted businesses as police officers fired tear gas in scattered violence durin...
US to provide $2.3 bn in new security aid for Ukra...
The United States will provide a new $2.3 billion security assistance package for Ukraine that will include key air defense and an...
Candidates exit French runoff to block far right
More than 200 centrist and left-wing candidates pulled out of France's legislative election runoff ahead of a Tuesday deadline, in...
Kenya police and protesters clash at rallies in ca...
Protesters clashed with police in Kenya's capital Nairobi Tuesday and some were arrested, AFP reporters saw, as calls for peaceful...
Orban calls for Ukraine ceasefire to speed up peac...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged Kyiv on Tuesday to work towards a "quick ceasefire" in Ukraine that could pave the way...
European stocks, euro retreat ahead of major elect...
European stock markets and the euro retreated Tuesday on concerns about potential economic fallout should the far-right win power...
Candidates exit French runoff to block far right f...
French candidates faced a Tuesday deadline to stay in or quit the weekend's runoff election, with over 160 withdrawing so far in a...
New Dutch PM sworn in with mission to curb asylum
Dutch King Willem-Alexander swore in former spy chief Dick Schoof as new prime minister Tuesday, at the head of a right-wing coali...
Kenya police fire tear gas at small rallies in cap...
Kenyan police fired tear gas to scatter small crowds in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, AFP reporters saw, after youth activists c...
Dozens protest in Kenya with riot police out in fo...
Dozens of Kenyans took to the streets Tuesday under a heavy police presence, with many shops shuttered as youth activists called f...
What's behind the dispute between Benin and Niger?
Benin and Niger are locked in a growing diplomatic row that has damaged their economies and seen Niger's military rulers switch of...
French left, Macron scramble to block far-right wi...
Candidates in France on Tuesday faced a deadline to register for the run-off round of a high-stakes parliamentary election, as Pre...
Cambodia sentences green campaigners for 'plotting...
A Cambodian court on Tuesday sentenced 10 environmentalists to between six and eight years in jail for plotting to commit crimes i...
'Can't go back': Myanmar conscription exiles strug...
When Myanmar's junta announced a conscription law to help crush a popular pro-democracy uprising, Khaing knew there was only one w...
Hungary's Orban visits Ukraine with aid tensions r...
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for a surprise visit to the war-torn country by the EU and NAT...
The Indian women campaigning to criminalise marita...
Raped by her husband on her wedding night aged 17, Divya described her repeated suffering -- an all-too-common account in India, p...
Kenya braces for new protests after dozens killed...
Kenya was bracing on Tuesday for fresh protest action against the government after anti-tax hike demonstrations last month descend...
Israel strikes southern Gaza after ordering evacua...
Israel carried out fresh strikes in southern Gaza on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of Palestinians to flee after the army once again o...
Dollar strengthens as bets on Trump presidency ris...
The dollar rose Tuesday and Asia equities were mixed as investors weighed the possibility of another Donald Trump presidency after...
First Palestinian Olympic boxer fights hurdles bef...
Every morning Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal checks texts from his Cairo-based coach -- a Gazan who cannot travel to him in the...
Ex-spy chief to be sworn in as new Dutch PM on mis...
Former spy chief Dick Schoof becomes the new Dutch prime minister Tuesday, leading a right-wing coalition cabinet on a mission to...
Jill Biden: A first lady in the trenches
Ever present by the US president's side after his calamitous debate -- and foursquare behind him as he vowed to fight on in his re...
Biden blasts landmark Supreme Court ruling on Trum...
President Joe Biden warned Monday that the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling on presidential immunity sets a "dangerous precedent...
Bot-like accounts spreading 'hate' during UK elect...
Bot-like social media accounts have spread "disinformation and hate" in tens of thousands of posts viewed an estimated 150 million...
Haiti violence displacing one child every minute:...
Violence raging in troubled Haiti is forcibly displacing one child every minute, on average, with some 300,000 already affected, t...
Panama's new president vows to end migrant 'transi...
Jose Raul Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama's new president, with the right-leaning leader pledging to make his Central America...
Mauritania, stable outlier in turbulent region, re...
Mauritania's incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election at the helm of the vast desert n...
Supreme Court says Trump has some immunity, furthe...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a decision set to...