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Russia says it's suspending its mission at NATO and ordering the closure of the alliance’s office in Moscow in retaliation to NATO’s expulsion of Russian diplomats

Norwegian police say the Danish man suspected of killing five people and injuring three in an attack in the southern town of Kongsberg last week may have used “stabbing weapons” in the massacre along with a bow and arrow

A state governor in Nigeria's troubled northwest region says that at least 30 people have been killed in a midnight attack by gunmen in Sokoto state

Azerbaijan’s deputy foreign minister has accused Armenia of “ethnic cleansing” and continuing to lay landmines in Nagorno-Karabakh even after a cease-fire ended a six-week war in the disputed region late last year

One of the world’s last three countries to administer COVID-19 vaccines has started giving out doses as the East African nation of Burundi launched its national campaign

Italy’s president is criticizing the violent protests that have erupted against Italy’s new coronavirus health pass requirement to enter workplaces

The trials of three Egyptian activists and a rights lawyer, who have been held in prison for over two years on a number of charges, have been postponed

Sweden’s foreign minister is visiting Israel in an effort to mend ties after years in which the two countries have been at odds over the conflict with the Palestinians

Witnesses say Ethiopian military airstrikes have hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region and killed at least three people, returning the war abruptly to Mekele after several months of peace

Philippine police say law enforcers backed by troops have killed four suspected Chinese drug dealers who opened fire at them during a sting operation

Boris Johnson will lead tributes in the House of Commons to David Amess.

France says that its ambassador to Belarus has been ordered out of the country

Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats on Monday became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new government

A provincial minister says a roadside bomb exploded near a police bus parked outside a university in southwest Pakistan

Romans are waiting to learn who will be their next mayor, following runoff elections that ended Monday in the Italian capital

Iraq says it has detained the mastermind behind a deadly 2016 bombing in a Baghdad shopping center, which killed around 300 people and wounded 250

South Korea has set a new goal for fighting climate change over the next decade, saying it will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 2018 levels by 2030

The Australian government has begun its legal challenge to a judge’s landmark decision that the administration has a duty of care to prevent future climate change in a case brought by eight teenagers

During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, the Germans imprisoned Jews in ghettoes and murdered them in death camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor

Officials are predicting more rain as the death toll from floods and landslides in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 28

A former Syrian lawmaker allegedly shot dead by an Israeli sniper has been laid to rest following an official funeral attended by hundreds of people near the Syrian capital

Witnesses say Ethiopian military airstrikes hit capital of country's Tigray region, kill at least 3 people

Heavy rains in central and northeastern Thailand have caused new flooding.

Russia's foreign minister says the country is suspending its mission to NATO

Egypt's government says it will require public servants to have a vaccination certificate or show a weekly negative COVID-19 test before entering their workplaces

A group of 200 male and female volunteers have stripped naked and donned white body paint for an artistic installation near the Dead Sea

Protests are continuing in Bangladesh’s capital to denounce a wave of violence against Hindus following an image posted on social media that was perceived as insulting to the country’s Muslim majority

Peter R. de Vries was gunned down in the center of Amsterdam.

Ford plans to turn a transmission factory into a plant makes electric motors.

The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government says other Southeast Asian countries should share responsibility for failing to help quell the violence that has engulfed his nation since the army seized power in February

Journalists at one of Germany’s largest newspaper groups have protested their publisher’s decision to nix a lengthy investigation into alleged abuse of power by the chief editor of the country’s top-selling tabloid newspaper

A critically endangered Sumatran tiger has been found dead in a trap.

The Taiwanese company that manufactures smartphones for Apple Inc. and other global brands says it plans to make electric cars for auto brands under a similar contract model

European Union foreign ministers are considering ways to stop illegal flows of migrants into the 27-nation bloc from neighboring Belarus, including stopping companies from leasing jets to Belarusian airline Belavia

An international police operation has nabbed cocaine with a street value of around 200 million euros ($232 million) on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean

The foreign ministers of Malaysia and Indonesia are concerned that Australia’s plan to obtain nuclear-powered submarines may increase the rivalry of major powers in Southeast Asia

Preliminary results show that center-right opposition parties have dominated in Kosovo’s municipal elections but more than half the communes will go to runoffs in a month's time

Kuwait's state-owned oil company says a fire has erupted at a major oil refinery and left some workers with light injuries

The Taliban win in Afghanistan is giving a boost to militants in Pakistan.

U.S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion

China’s economic growth sank in the last quarter as a slowdown in construction and curbs on energy use weighed on its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic

The group was visiting an orphanage in the town of Ganthier.

China's economic growth sinks to 4.9% over a year ago in latest quarter amid construction slowdown, energy controls

Japan's new prime minister has visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and said a planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the complex cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents

A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children has been kidnapped in Haiti.

Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression

Independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay has won a primary contest to become the joint canddate of a six-party opposition coalition that will challenge right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary’s elections next spring

Celebrities have joined Prince William in London for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize

Officials say there is no sign that a volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma is coming to an end, four weeks after it began

The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call