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AFP : Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a “strategic partnership treaty” following their talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday, Russian state media reported. Putin signalled earlier the two...
AP, Paris : Antiracism groups will join French unions and a brand-new left-wing coalition in protests in Paris and across France on Saturday against the surging nationalist far right as frenzied campaigning is underway...
AFP, Shanghai : New Chinese coast guard rules took effect Saturday, under which it can detain foreigners for trespassing in the disputed South China Sea, where neighbours and the G7 have accused Beijing of...
PTI, Italy : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a brief conversation with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau amid strain in bilateral ties over the case relating to the killing of Khalistani extremist...
AFP, London : Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Saturday tentatively returned to UK public life for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer, attending a military parade in London to mark King Charles...
AP, Geneva : The presidents of Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Somalia will join many Western heads of state and government and other leaders at a conference this weekend aimed to plot out first...
Deutsche Welle : China’s lunar probe landed safely in the remote steppes of northern China’s border region with Mongolia on Tuesday. It returns bearing the first samples ever taken of rock and soil from...
AFP, Kolkata : Six people were killed after heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides in a remote corner of India’s northeast, officials told AFP Friday. Another five people were missing around the affected...
AP, Geneva : Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine even though Russia, which launched the ongoing war, won’t take part....
AFP, London : The Conservative party of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fallen behind the anti-immigration Reform UK party for the first time in a poll by YouGov, which called the development a...
Zoe Kleinman, BBC : Elon Musk might, once again, get his own way. His Tesla pay deal – worth up to $56bn (£44bn) depending on the firm’s share price – which has now been...
AFP, Vienna : Iran is further expanding its nuclear capacities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday, one week after the agency’s board of governors passed a resolution criticising Tehran’s lack of cooperation with...