A growing number of couples in Ukraine are speedily turning love into matrimony because of the war with Russia. Some are soldiers, marrying just before they head off to fight. Others are united in …
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By HANNA ARHIROVA
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6/26/22
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Survivors have described how more than 100 people were killed in Mali in an attack by a Jihadi group just as villagers in central region were beginning to enjoy a peace deal signed last year in the …
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By BABA AHMED
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6/26/22
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid. But host nation Spain and other members are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries …
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By JOSEPH WILSON
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6/26/22
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At this year's G-7 summit Germany will push its plan for countries to join together in a ‘climate club' to tackle global warming. The idea was first floated by Yale economist William Nordhaus, who …
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By FRANK JORDANS
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6/26/22
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In Lebanon, a debate over civil marriages is mired in religious and political entanglements. The controversy has flared up anew after a few recently elected lawmakers raised their hands in approval …
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By MARIAM FAM and BASSEM MROUE
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6/26/22
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The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency. In a …
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By MARIA CHENG
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6/25/22
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Train stations are all but deserted across Britain on the third day of a national strike that snarled the weekend plans of millions. Train companies said only a fifth of passenger services would run …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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6/25/22
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Hundreds of people, mostly ethnic Amhara, were slaughtered in a village and its surroundings this month in the latest explosion of ethnic violence in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation. …
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6/25/22
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Norwegian police say two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Oslo. The shooting happened early Saturday outside a bar in the downtown area of the Norwegian …
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6/25/22
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A pregnant American woman who suffered an incomplete miscarriage while vacationing in Malta is receiving treatment in a hospital on the Spanish island of Mallorca because Maltese law prohibits …
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By FRANCISCO UBILLA
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6/24/22
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Several suspects around France have been detained or given preliminary charges of pricking people with a needle in nightclubs or at concerts. The arrests follow a surge in needle attacks that …
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By JADE LE DELEY
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6/24/22
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A man has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder for killing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. …
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6/24/22
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India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. India’s …
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By ASHOK SHARMA
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6/24/22
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India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. India’s External Affairs Ministry said the team …
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By ASHOK SHARMA
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6/24/22
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Coming to Taiwan was a logical step for Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookstore owner who was held by police in China for five months for selling sensitive books about the Communist Party. An island just …
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By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU
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6/23/22
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President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority …
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By ASTRID SUÁREZ
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6/23/22
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Myanmar’s military has confirmed that ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to a prison where she will have quarters separate from other detainees. Suu Kyi was arrested on Feb. 1, 2021, …
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By GRANT PECK
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6/23/22
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An official says at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago. That adds to dozens of similar deaths reported earlier this year as the …
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By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO
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6/23/22
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Leaders of the Commonwealth's 54 nations are expected to call for increased momentum on climate action at a meeting in Rwanda this week, ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in the …
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By WANJOHI KABUKURU
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6/23/22
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Tanzania’s Maasai people, resisting government pressure to leave their ancestral homes in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, have presented their demands for Indigenous land rights to negotiators in …
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By WANJOHI KABUKURU
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6/23/22
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