Russian missile strike kills 41, wounds 180 in Poltava city
Two Russian ballistic missiles struck an educational facility and nearby hospital in a central-eastern region of Ukraine, killing at least 41 people and wounding 180 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday. The strike occurred in the city of Poltava, the capital of the region of the same name, officials...
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Venezuelan judge issues arrest warrant for opposition’s former presidential candidate
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Fierce storm blows out of northern Philippines after leaving 14 dead
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China-linked network mimics Americans to influence US politics
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Could mass protests in Israel push Netanyahu towards ceasefire deal?
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Suspect arrested for alleged Mossad money transfer
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Yemen Houthi rebels target oil tanker in Red Sea
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129 people killed in Congo prison jailbreak attempt
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11 killed, 13 injured in China bus crash
(): At least 11 persons were killed and 13 injured when a bus rammed into a crowd of students at the gate of a middle school in east China’s Shandong province on Tuesday, police said. A rental bus hired for transporting students “lost control” and crashed into pedestrians in Tai’an...
Putin challenges arrest warrant during Mongolia visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Mongolia on Tuesday with no sign that the host country would bow to calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The trip is Putin’s first to a member country of the International Criminal...
Chocolate future could hinge on success of growing cocoa
Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes. Scientists and entrepreneurs are working on ways to make more cocoa that stretch well beyond the tropics, from Northern...
Azerbaijan holds parl election, expected to retain the presidential party’s dominance
(): Azerbaijan on Sunday is holding a snap parliamentary election that is the first for the country since it regained full control of a former breakaway territory in a lightning offensive last year. Previous elections since independence from the Soviet Union have not been regarded as fully free or fair,...
Storm creeps through Japan, bringing heavy rainfall to some spots
Tropical Storm Shanshan brought torrential rain Sunday to Japan’s Shizuoka area, 180 km (110 miles) southwest of Tokyo, as weather officials warned the storm would linger for several more days. Shanshan, packing winds of 65 kph (40 mph), made landfall Thursday, leaving landslides, flooded rivers, torn branches and scattered debris...
Iran needs more than $100 bn in foreign investment: Prez
Iran’s president said on Saturday his country needs some $100 billion in foreign investment to achieve an annual target of 8% economic growth up from the current rate of 4%. The remarks by Masoud Pezeshkian, who was elected in July, came in his first live televised interview by state TV. Pezeshkian said...
Wreckage of missing helicopter located, 17 bodies discovered
Rescuers have located a helicopter that went missing in Russia’s far east with 22 people on board, officials said on Sunday. Russia’s emergencies ministry said the bodies of 17 people have been found and that rescuers were continuing to search for the remaining occupants. All those on board are presumed to...
