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US health officials declared monkeypox a public health emergency, a step aimed at facilitating access to more funding to fight the virus. Health...

KYIV: Russian forces shelled a Ukrainian city close to Europe's biggest nuclear power plant on Thursday, reinforcing warnings from the U.N. nuclear chief...

BEIRUT: A large block of Beirut’s giant port grain silos, shredded by a massive explosion two years ago, collapsed on Thursday as hundreds...

China said it called off a face-to-face meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Japanese counterpart over a Group of Seven statement...

JUBA: Parties to the peace deal ending South Sudan’s devastating civil war have again delayed the country's first elections since independence by extending...

Thousands of protesters marched tearfully in the Lebanese capital on Thursday, marking two years since a cataclysmic explosion at the Beirut port, with...

Toronto benchmark home prices fell for a fourth-straight month, a record-breaking streak of declines that some economists warn could become an historic downturn...

MUMBAI: India, the world's third largest carbon polluter, has finally approved new targets for slashing planet-warming emissions, more than a year after a...

Occupied Jerusalem:Amnesty International called on the Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday to immediately release the young Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Manasra. Responding to the...

BERLIN: The European Union intends to put together another financing package for Ukraine by September that will amount to about 8 billion euros...

BRUSSELS: Wildfires raging through Europe this summer have burned the second-largest area on record, even though the region is only halfway through its...

Republican commentator Tudor Dixon won Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial primary to face incumbent Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November’s general election. The Associated Press...

Johannesburg: South Africa's health regulator reported on Thursday a causal link between the death of an individual and Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) COVID-19...

FRANKFURT: Consumers in the euro zone are bracing for the economy to shrink and for high inflation to continue eating into their income...

Top Taliban officials didn’t know al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in Afghanistan, a spokesman said, and an investigation is underway to check...

Berlin: A large fire broke out in one of Berlin's biggest city forests on Thursday, morning triggered by several explosions that took place...

Washington:The US Senate has approved the accession of Sweden and Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in the largest expansion of...

ROME: Italy plans to approve on Thursday a new aid package worth around 14.3 billion euros ($14.5 billion) to help shield firms and...