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The United Nation's human rights office says that recent initiatives in places like the Americas and Europe to end discrimination against people of African descent are mostly “piecemeal.”

Would-be NATO member Sweden has announced it will allow the export of arms to Turkey, which had threatened to block the Scandinavian nation’s application to join the 30-member defense alliance

Amnesty International says leaked government documents show that Iran ordered its security forces to “severely confront” antigovernment demonstrations

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of sabotaging the Russia-built gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea to Germany

President Vladimir Putin signs treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia, defying international law

The Russian strike targeted the city of Zaporizhzhia.

EU members in a joint statement 'firmly reject and unequivocally condemn the illegal annexation, of Ukrainian territory

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has ruled that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha can remain in his job and did not violate a constitutional provision limiting him to eight years in office

The Polish prime minister’s chief-of-staff has resigned after the official's private email account was hacked and his private messages published over many months

Residents in the capital of Burkina Faso say gunfire rang out early in the morning and the state broadcaster has gone off the air, fueling fears that another coup is underway

As serious as the methane escaping from ruptured pipelines on the floor of the Baltic Sea may be, there are alarming incidents of massive methane releases happening around the world constantly

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of sabotaging the Russian gas pipelines to Germany

Putin urges Ukraine to sit down for talks but warns that Moscow will not give up the newly incorporated regions

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will protect the newly incorporated regions using 'all available means'

A few hundred Cubans have taken to the streets in Havana demanding the restoration of electricity, protesting more than two days after a blackout hit the entire island following the passage of Hurricane Ian

Denmark and Sweden tell UN that Nord Stream leaks due to blast are equal to 'several hundred kilos' of explosives

President Vladimir Putin opens a Kremlin event to absorb parts of Ukraine into Russia, defying international law

The United Nations says it will seek $800 million more in aid from the international community to help Pakistan's flood survivors

British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Treasury chief have met with the independent Office of Budget Responsibility amid efforts to ease concerns about unfunded tax cuts that have unleashed turmoil on financial markets

A reparations panel says France’s Catholic Church has paid financial compensation to 23 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives under a recently launched process

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing a senior German lawmaker who called him a “sewer rat,” his lawyer said Friday

India’s main opposition party Indian National Congress is set to choose a non-family member as its next president as it struggles to recover before key upcoming elections

South Korea, U.S. and Japan launch their first anti-submarine 5 in five years

A Taliban spokesman says a suicide bomber has killed 19 people and wounded 27 at an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital

Belarus’ authoritarian president is rejecting the possibility that his country’s armed forces would become embroiled in the war in Ukraine

Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency has broken into double digits as prices for electricity and natural gas soar

Geely Holding Group, one of China’s biggest independent automakers, has bought a 7.6% stake in British luxury brand Aston Martin Lagonda and says it looks forward to potential opportunities to collaborate

UK's Office of Budget Responsibility to give initial analysis on government economic plan on Oct. 7 after Truss meeting

Swedish officials don't yet know if an undersea power cable that runs between Sweden and Poland was damaged when the Nord Stream gas pipelines ruptured in what Western officials suspect was an act of sabotage

Two surveys show growth in Chinese manufacturing was weak in September, export orders fell and employers cut jobs

Energy ministers from the 27 European Union countries have agreed to adopt a set of measures aimed at mitigating the impact of the energy crisis

The Finnish-Russia border has been closed to Russians with tourist visas, curtailing one of the last easily accessible routes to Europe for Russians trying to flee a military mobilization

Bosnia’s general election should be about fighting rampant corruption and the country’s ailing economy

Inflation in 19 European countries using the euro currency hits another record at 10% as energy prices soar

Court rules Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth did not exceed constitution's 8-year term limit, can stay in office

Pakistani officials say a bomb has exploded inside a sweets shop in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others

Residents in Burkina Faso's capital report gunfire, state broadcaster off air, sparking fears of a mutiny under way.

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India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate to 5.90% and said developing economy were facing slowing growth, elevated food and energy prices, debt distress and currency depreciation

Tens of millions of Brazilians were glued to their TVs late Thursday for the final presidential debate before Sunday's elections

Official: Russian strike in Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia kills 23 people, wounds 28 in a humanitarian convoy

Taliban spokesman for Kabul police chief says 19 killed, 27 wounded in suicide blast in Shiite area of Afghan capital

A few hundred Cubans have taken to the streets in Havana demanding the restoration of electricity, protesting more than two days after a blackout hit the entire island following the passage of Hurricane Ian

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Newly formed Tropical Storm Orlene is strengthening in the eastern Pacific, and forecasters expect it to become a hurricane by Friday evening while heading for a projected landfall on the Mexican coast early next week

The U_N_ Security Council has scheduled a vote for Friday afternoon on a resolution that would condemn Russia for its “illegal so-called referenda” in four Ukrainian regions and declare that they “have no validity.”

The Vatican says it imposed disciplinary sanctions on Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo following allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor in the 1990s

Ian has strengthened back to a Category 1 storm.

A former vice governor of China’s sprawling Tibet region has been indicted on charges of accepting bribes

South Korea, U.S. and Japanese warships have launched their first anti-submarine drills in five years, after North renewed ballistic missile tests this week