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Myanmar sentences lawmaker from Suu Kyi's party to...
A Myanmar military tribunal sentenced a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted party to death for terror offences on Friday, the junt...
IS attacks Syria jail, military base in Iraq in de...
The Islamic State group on Friday attacked a Syria prison housing fellow jihadists and a military base in Iraq in near simultaneou...
French politicians worry about surge in pre-electi...
French ruling party lawmaker Pascal Bois was at home asleep a few days after Christmas when firefighters banged on his front door...
US, Russia promise to work to ease Ukraine tension...
Washington and Moscow's top diplomats agreed Friday to keep working to ease tensions over Ukraine, with the United States promisin...
Bolsonaro cuts short official trip after mother di...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he was cutting short an official visit to Suriname and Guyana and returning home aft...
Rights groups, victims call UN to ban Bangladesh p...
Families of victims of enforced disappearances allegedly perpetrated by an elite Bangladesh paramilitary group Friday called on th...
Security beefed up in Pakistan capital after deadl...
Security was beefed up across Pakistan's capital Friday, police said, a day after three people were killed and 22 wounded by a bom...
Howe defends Newcastle's Saudi trip despite 'sport...
Eddie Howe confirmed on Friday that Newcastle would travel to Saudi Arabia for a training camp despite a fresh warning from Amnest...
Taliban to meet Western officials in Norway for ai...
The Taliban will hold talks with Western officials in Oslo next week on human rights and humanitarian aid in their first official...
Little hope of breakthrough as US, Russia hold hig...
Washington and Moscow's top diplomats met Friday in Geneva for high-stakes talks on Ukraine, but with little hope of a breakthroug...
Land battle awaits Indigenous communities over Ind...
Tens of thousands of Indonesia's indigenous people are at risk of being expelled from their lands to make way for the construction...
Dead, wounded in air strike on Yemen prison
An air strike has destroyed a prison in the Huthi rebel stronghold of Saada in northern Yemen, leaving many dead or wounded, the i...
Syria Kurds hunt down IS jihadists after prison at...
Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Friday hunted down Islamic State group fighters after an IS attack on a Kurdish-run prison...
Missing son of hard-luck Chinese labourer long dea...
The story of a Chinese migrant worker whose plight sparked a wave of online sympathy after he tested positive for the coronavirus...
UK warns Putin faces Ukraine 'quagmire'
Russia risks becoming embroiled in a "terrible quagmire" if it invades Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned Friday,...
Draghi, Berlusconi in mix as Italy elects new pres...
Italy's parliament begins voting for a new president Monday, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi tipped for election in a high-stakes...
US extends protection of Venezuelan oil unit Citgo
The US Treasury on Thursday extended by one year a rule that shields Citgo, a US-based unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company...
West warns Russia against 'any' Ukraine incursion
The United States and its allies have warned Moscow Thursday of grave consequences if "any" of the tens of thousands of troops mas...
Biden starts second year with charm offensive -- a...
The White House launched a charm offensive, complete with a Tom Hanks video, to mark Joe Biden's first year as president Thursday,...
Colombia car bomb kills one, injures 20
A car bomb detonated in Colombia overnight outside government offices and the seat of a human rights body, killing one person and...
US inflation spike also due to generous pandemic s...
President Joe Biden blames global supply snarls for the wave of price increases hitting US consumers and businesses, but the trill...
China, Russia block US push for UN sanctions on N....
China and Russia on Thursday blocked a US push to impose United Nations sanctions on five North Koreans in response to recent miss...
US Supreme Court deals another blow to abortion pr...
The conservative-leaning US Supreme Court dealt another blow on Thursday to opponents of a Texas law that bans most abortions afte...
EU ministers mull climate policy, carbon border ta...
European Union environment ministers gathered in France Thursday to mull climate policy and the merits of a carbon border tax, whi...
US stocks fall for 3rd straight day as rally fizzl...
US stocks sank again Thursday as investors shunned equities amid lingering worries over surging global inflation and the prospect...
UN adopts resolution against Holocaust denial
The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a non-binding resolution calling on all member states to fight against Holocaust denia...
Biden says any Russian troop entry into Ukraine is...
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that any entry of Russian troops into Ukraine will be treated by the West as "an invasion," a...
At least two dead, 22 wounded by bomb in Pakistan'...
At least two people were killed and 22 wounded Thursday by a bomb blast in a busy shopping district of the Pakistani megacity of L...
Tear gas fired at Sudan protesters rallying agains...
Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Thursday at protesters rallying against the killing of dozens in a post-coup crackdown,...
Turkey halts four-month streak of rate cuts
Turkey's central bank on Thursday bowed to market pressure and halted a four-month streak of interest rate cuts that saw inflation...
Indonesia to push for new global health agency, pr...
Indonesia will push for the creation of a new global health agency while the country holds the presidency of the G20, President Jo...
Google spars with EU activists after Austria data...
A years-long saga over tech firms transferring data from Europe to the US re-erupted on Thursday, days after Austrian officials sl...
Athlete surveillance warnings cloud China's Winter...
A growing number of Western nations and cybersecurity groups have issued digital surveillance warnings for next month's Winter Oly...
Taiwan VP to make US stopovers during Honduras vis...
Taiwan said Thursday its vice president will transit in the United States on his way to the inauguration of Honduras' president-el...
Ravaged by war, separatist east Ukraine fears new...
Tears stream down Antonina Zaytseva's face as she considers the possibility of her separatist region of Ukraine again being engulf...
Can the US and Russia find a diplomatic 'off-ramp'...
The United States has called for a diplomatic solution with Russia to resolve a crisis over Ukraine, but in public at least, the t...
Trickle of residents return to Fukushima's last de...
Five former residents of the last remaining uninhabited town near Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant returned on Thursday to...
Defiant Biden touts first year, vows to reconnect...
Joe Biden sought to reset his presidency in a marathon first year press conference Wednesday, vowing to reconnect with voters and...
US Senate sinks Biden push for major voting rights...
US senators dealt a death blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden's push to defend voting rights against what Democrats frame as an...