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American authorities have seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites they accuse of spreading “disinformation."

Iran likely conducted a failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket in recent days and now appears to be preparing to try again

Five years ago Wednesday, Britons voted in a referendum that was meant to bring certainty to the U.K.’s unsettled relationship with its European neighbors, but it most certainly did not

Colombia has reached 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 this week, becoming just the tenth country in the world to hit the grim milestone

Germany and the United Nations are bringing together representatives of Libya with powers that have interests in the country at a conference which aims for progress toward securing elections in the North African nation and the removal of foreign fighters

Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says President Alexander Lukashenko may have miscalculated last month by diverting a Ryanair passenger jet to Minsk, where a dissident journalist aboard was arrested

The first person to stand trial under Hong Kong’s national security law has pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism and inciting secession by driving a motorcycle into police officers while carrying a protest flag

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Peru’s central coast, causing some residents of the capital to run out of shaking homes or buildings

A brutal fight between two rival groups of inmates at a prison on Mexico's Gulf coast has left six dead and nine wounded

A journalist has been found stabbed to death in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Acuna, across the border from Del Rio, Texas

The United Nations recommends downgrading Australia’s Great Barrier Reef status to a heritage site “in danger,” while Australian officials oppose the move.

The northernmost regional state of the country is torn apart by civil war.

A newly sanctified cemetery for Tunisia's migrant dead is filling quickly

For nearly three months, from dusk to dawn, Rita Devi has followed a similar drill. Her day begins with physical training, followed by classes on border management and on collaborating with police and border guards in the event of skirmishes along the frontier between India and Pakistan. Toward evening, she receives training in weapon handling and law and order. Devi, along with 73 other young men and women, is working hard to become a “special police officer” to assist law enforcement officers in dozens of mountain villages in the frontier district of Kathua in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Pakistan also controls part of Kashmir, which is claimed by both countries. Devi said she always wanted to join the police. “This position will allow me to help people,” she said. Special police officers are lower-ranked police officials who are mainly recruited for intelligence gathering and counterinsurgency operations. In recent years, the force has assisted in border areas as well because of...

The capital of the United Arab Emirates has apparently started offering free coronavirus vaccines to tourists flying into emirate, a move that could entice travelers and help revive the country’s struggling tourism industry

Brazil’s federal prosecutor’s office is investigating possible irregularities in a Health Ministry contract to purchase 20 million doses of the Covaxin vaccine manufactured by Indian laboratory Bharat Biotech

Environmentalists and tourism operators on Mexico's Caribbean coast are complaining about mounds of foul-smelling sargassum — a seaweed-like algae — piling up on beaches and turning turquoise waters brown

The top prosecutor in Mexico's border state of Tamaulipas says infighting between rival factions of the Gulf drug cartel was the apparent motive behind weekend shooting that killed 19 people, 15 of them apparently innocent bystanders

Authorities in Burkina Faso say at least 11 police officers are dead and four others are missing after they were ambushed by gunmen

A landmark cyberbullying trial in Paris is blazing a trail in efforts to punish and prevent online abuse

International criticism of the Nicaraguan government has grown following another night of arrests in Managua

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party has named veteran lawmaker Jeffrey Donaldson its new leader

Aid group Doctors Without Borders says it is suspending activities in two overcrowded Libyan detention centers in Tripoli due to increased violence, abuse and ill treatment of migrants and refugees held there by Libyan authorities

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A helicopter pilot charged with the murder of his young British-Greek wife, Caroline Crouch, and faking a robbery has been jailed to await trial, while a prosecutor will decide on the custody of their infant daughter

The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has concluded in Paris, after a month during which the court sought to determine whether he broke laws on campaign financing in his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid

The European Union's executive branch has given the formal nod to 191.5 billion euros in pandemic recovery funds for Italy

The European Union’s executive branch is warning Hungary and Poland that it will take action if they continue to violate the 27-nation bloc’s democratic standards

Iran says state-linked news websites seized by US government under unclear circumstances, US officials don't acknowledge

Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing growing criticism at home for seemingly blaming a rise in sexual violence in Pakistan on women wearing “very few clothes.”

Plus, girl scouts in California raise money for oxygen masks used to save pets caught in fires.

The head of the European Union’s executive Commission says she will propose shifting the bloc’s financial aid for migrants in Turkey away from emergency humanitarian relief to long-term support

Russian President Vladimir Putin is marking the 80th anniversary of the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union by hailing the country’s World War II heroes and calling for efforts to strengthen European security

Belarus says that new prospective Western sanctions over the diversion of a passenger plane amount to the declaration of an “economic war,” and is threatening to retaliate

Nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed for sedition are eyeing freedom, after Spain’s Cabinet pardoned them in the hope of starting what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a much-needed reconciliation in the country’s restive northeast

Hong Kong police have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of using seditious words after a flag with a banned protest slogan was seen hanging outside his apartment

The mayor of Moscow has announced new pandemic restrictions, saying the situation in the capital remains “very difficult.”

European Union regulators have launched a fresh antitrust investigation of Google, this time over whether the company is stifling competition in digital advertising technology

Poland's government says it has evidence linking a recent cyber attack on thousands of email and social media accounts of politicians, public figures and other Poles to Russia’s secret services

Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund has announced a net loss of $5.1 billion over the past year, highlighting the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has wrought on its vast assets and the uncertainty around the emirate’s post-pandemic recovery

Canada and China have sparred over human rights at the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council

The Palestinian Authority has detained a prominent activist and held him overnight after he criticized its policies in a series of online posts and accused it of detaining another individual for political reasons

REHABILITATE & RELEASE: A conservation group protects endangered sea turtles that wash up on the beach in Dubai.

ELEPHANT ENERGY: New drone footage shows a famous ​herd of migrating Chinese elephants on the move again.

Talks to form a new ruling coalition remain deadlocked nearly 100 days after Dutch national elections

German lawmakers examining the collapse of the payment processing company Wirecard have accused the country’s finance minister and auditors Ernst & Young of numerous oversight failings

Spain’s government has granted pardons to nine instigators of an illegal 2017 secession bid for Catalonia

Spanish Cabinet signs pardons for 9 Catalan separatists to defuse political crisis

The Vatican has formally opposed a proposed Italian law expanding anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community

The European Union's police agency says extremists sought to use the global pandemic to “spread hate propaganda and exacerbate mistrust in public institutions” in 2020