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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Russia has targeted the Ukrainian capital

Villagers see destruction everywhere and help in short supply days after an earthquake devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people

U.S. President Joe Biden says that the United States and other Group of Seven leading economies intend to announce a ban on imports of gold from Russia

A growing number of couples in Ukraine are speedily turning love into matrimony because of the war with Russia

Biden: Group of Seven nations to announce ban on Russian gold imports in latest round of sanctions over Ukraine war

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 West African country

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid

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

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid

In Lebanon, a debate over civil marriages is mired in religious and political entanglements

Step into Yuet Tung China Works, Hong Kong’s last remaining hand-painted porcelain factory, and you find yourself surrounded by stacks of dinnerware, each piece painstakingly decorated by hand with vibrant motifs of flowers, fruits and animals. Joseph Tso, the third-generation owner of the factory, and his small team are among the few people in Hong Kong who have mastered the traditional technique of painting “guangcai,” or Canton porcelain. It is a fading art in this modern metropolis, as fewer young people are willing to put in the time and effort required to master the craft or to work at the factory full-time. “The business environment in Hong Kong is not suitable for labor-intensive industries,” Tso said. “Hong Kong’s traditional handicraft industry is gradually declining. It will eventually disappear.” Guangcai, which comes from the nearby Chinese city of Guangzhou, is characterized by an overglaze technique in which the painter sketches a design on white porcelain and...

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has lifted a state of emergency he’d imposed in six provinces amid an Indigenous-led strike, a surprise move that comes as lawmakers in the National Assembly hear an opposition petition to remove him from office

Eight bodies have been found on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, and they appear to be those of eight men apparently kidnapped from a resort on the Caribbean coast

Russian forces press momentum as Ukrainian troops withdraw from Sievierodonetsk.

Moroccan state media are reporting that the number of people who were killed after they tried to scale a border fence between Morocco and a Spanish enclave in North Africa has risen to 23

Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi's office says he has arrived in Saudi Arabia on an official visit

Russian military says separatist fighters in full control of Sievierodonetsk chemical plant, last Ukrainian holdout

A confrontation between military police and members of the Guarani Kaiowá group south of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil near the Paraguay border left at least one Indigenous person dead and seven wounded

Mexico City hosted a mass wedding for couples as part of celebrations of Pride.

Mali is preparing the ground to return to constitutional rule following its last coup in 2020 after the junta leader Col. Assimi Goita signed a new law that paved the way for elections in the West African country

Congo’s Catholic bishop say Pope Francis' decision to go ahead with a trip to Canada was an “encouraging sign” that his knee treatment was working

Mali’s junta leader has signed a new law paving the way for elections and a return of the country to constitutional rule

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe has opened a new museum that tells the story of the generations of refugees who have shaped Danish society

Ukraine's largest LGBTQ rights event has gone ahead this weekend

The European Union and Iran say they have agreed to resume negotiations in Vienna in the coming days over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers

Pope Francis is urging families to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican family rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion

The Spanish government has approved a package of emergency economic measures worth more than 9 billion euros ($9.5 billion) to try to temper the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

A Guatemalan court has tossed out an agreement that made it easier to prosecute bribery involving the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht

A gunman who opened fire in Oslo’s nightlife district has killed two men and left more than 20 other people injured during the LGBTQ Pride festival in Norway's capital

The African nations of Gabon and Togo have been admitted into the Commonwealth group of nations

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told Sweden’s prime minister he hasn't seen any “tangible” moves to address Turkey’s concerns about her country joining NATO

A mayor in northern Italy signed an ordinance turning off public fountains.

The Oslo Pride festival says the Pride parade set for Saturday is now canceled.

About 4,000 protesters have gathered in Munich as the Group of Seven leading economic powers are set to hold their annual gathering in the Germany's Bavarian Alps

The Chinese government says President Xi Jinping will participate in next week’s celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China

The mayor of Ukraine's capital has warned that an imposter is posing as him.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt was holding talks with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who is vising Cairo for the first time in years

Turkey's state-run news agency says security forces have detained a Greek citizen accused of spying for Athens’ intelligence service

New relief supplies rolled into eastern Afghanistan after this week's powerful earthquake that state media said killed at least 1,150

Iranian media are reporting that a magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck a southern Iranian province, killing at least one person and injuring more than 30 others

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is resisting calls from his Conservative Party to change direction after two thumping special election defeats

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has celebrated the opening of the country’s longest bridge, which took eight years to build amid setbacks involving political conflict and corruption allegations

Norwegian security service raises terror alert level after mass shooting

A group of lawmakers from French President Emmanuel Macron's party is proposing a bill to inscribe abortion rights into the constitution

Train stations are all but deserted across Britain on the third day of a national strike that snarled the weekend plans of millions

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

Palestinian officials say a 16-year-old youth has been killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank

Oslo police say they believe mass shooting that killed 2, wounded 14 was a terror attack

Oslo Pride organizers have canceled Saturday's Pride parade after overnight mass shooting

Norwegian police say 2 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Oslo