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NATO can weather political storms in US, France: S...
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said the "resilient" military alliance can ride out any political changes in major powers...
Palestinians flee as Israeli forces return to Gaza...
Palestinians fled eastern Gaza City on Thursday under heavy bombardment as the Israeli military issued an evacuation order for the...
Wembanyama joins French sports stars in 'extremes'...
Basketball star Victor Wembanyama joined other leading French sports heros on Thursday in warning against voting for the "extremes...
Bolivia reels from botched coup bid amid economic...
Bolivian President Luis Arce was facing a deep political crisis on Thursday after a botched bid by military chiefs to overthrow hi...
EU-Ukraine security agreement to advance 'peace':...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a long-term security agreement to be inked between Kyiv and the European Union on Thur...
Low turnout at Nairobi protest over fears of viole...
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday, with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas as turnout...
Biden and Trump lock horns in critical presidentia...
Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off Thursday in a crucial US presidential debate that carries enormous stakes for both candidate...
Tensions flare between far right, Macron camp ahea...
Tensions soared on Thursday between supporters of Emmanuel Macron and the French far-right after its longtime leader Marine Le Pen...
Over half of Sudanese face 'acute food insecurity'...
More than half of Sudan's population is facing high levels of "acute food insecurity", a situation exacerbated by the country's de...
China's economy in focus ahead of key July politic...
A key political meeting that is watched for signals on China's economic direction will be held in mid-July, state media said Thurs...
Sri Lanka calls on Russia to discharge its citizen...
Sri Lanka has asked Russia to allow its former soldiers fighting in Moscow's war against Ukraine to return home voluntarily, the g...
Kenya police fire rubber bullets, tear gas at prot...
Kenyan police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators in Nairobi on Thursday, as protesters returned to the streets des...
Kenya police fire tear gas at protesters after Rut...
Kenyan police fired tear gas at small groups of demonstrators in the capital Nairobi on Thursday, AFP journalists saw, a day after...
Two ultraconservative candidates exit Iran preside...
Two ultraconservative candidates have pulled out of Iran's Friday presidential vote, leaving four contenders including one reformi...
Bolivian army chiefs arrested after coup attempt
Two Bolivian army leaders have been arrested after soldiers and tanks took up position in front of government buildings on Wednesd...
N. Korea says successfully tested multiple-warhead...
North Korea successfully tested its multiple-warhead missile capability, state media said Thursday, as dozens more trash-laden bal...
Far right out ahead with three days to France vote
France's political future was up in the air on Thursday with the far right surging in polls but other forces fighting to the end t...
'Uncharted waters': Kenya braces for protests desp...
Kenya braced for fresh demonstrations Thursday under heavy security, after major concessions from the government which agreed to s...
Indicted mogul takes on Japan's 'hostage justice'...
The ex-chairman of a major Japanese publishing house who was indicted over bribery allegations linked to the Tokyo Olympics sued t...
Thailand wraps up first senate election in a decad...
Thailand on Thursday announced results of its complex multi-round election to choose a new senate -- the first poll for the upper...
Five things to know about Mongolia
Mongolians go to the polls Friday in parliamentary elections, with the ruling Mongolian People's Party widely expected to retain i...
Far right way ahead with three days to France vote
France's political future was up in the air Thursday with the far-right surging in polls but other forces fighting to the end thre...
Bolivian army leaders arrested after coup attempt
Two Bolivian army leaders were arrested Wednesday after soldiers and tanks took up position in front of government buildings in wh...
Autonomous car rules advancing faster than the veh...
Fully autonomous cars are still years away from hitting the streets, but internationally-agreed rules on their use could be ready...
'Dead city': Russia swoops on Ukraine's once-calm...
Compared to others in war-scarred east Ukraine, Galyna Poroshyna had been lucky to live in Toretsk, a mining town nestled in a rel...
Israel says it can send Lebanon 'back to Stone Age...
Israel said it does not want war in Lebanon but could send its neighbour "back to the Stone Age", as the UN's humanitarian chief w...
Biden and Trump to lock horns in critical presiden...
Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off for a historic US presidential debate Thursday, with the stage set for what could be an infl...
'For a better Kenya': protesters ready for new mar...
Kenyan demonstrators prepared to resume protests Thursday, a day after President William Ruto made a dramatic U-turn and withdrew...
Murdered and forgotten: Iraqi victims of gender-ba...
In a sun-baked cemetery in northern Iraq, silence lingers over a forsaken corner devoid of mourners, where women killed in gender-...
Hit UK politics podcast revives lost art of disagr...
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart have something to add to their already lengthy CVs: political podcast stars.
Who could get key roles in a UK Labour government?
With the Labour party widely expected to win next month's UK general election, speculation has turned to who leader Keir Starmer c...
UK election campaign enters final straight
Britain goes to the polls next week in a general election that looks set to end 14 years of Conservative rule marked by economic t...