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Opposition parties, activists, and students have announced a large-scale march for December 6 demanding an international investigation into the use of chemical agents against protesters in November-December 2024

Germany has deployed five Eurofighter jets and some 150 military personnel to the Polish town of Malbork to help secure the country's airspace, the German air force said on Thursday, in response to Russian drone incursio...

Opinion polls show the student-led National Citizen Party, which aims to contest all 300 seats, in third place, with support of just 6 per cent, far behind the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former Prime Minister...

India's biggest airline IndiGo faced a growing crisis, with more than 300 flights cancelled since Tuesday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded nationwide.

Deaths from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for acros...

China is deploying a large number of naval and coast guard vessels across East Asian waters, at one point more than 100, in the largest maritime show of force to date, according to four sources and intelligence reports r...

A United Nations Security Council delegation arrived in Syria on Thursday and met with President Ahmed al-Sharaa, state media reported, in the first-ever visit to the country just days before the anniversary of the ousti...

Three days after the election, the first results in Honduras do not give a presidential result, but do project defeat for Rixi Moncada of Libre. With the final tally far from sight, political and diplomatic sources in Ho...

Egyptian journalist and MP Mustafa Bakri has criticised a recent statement from the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying it “crossed all limits of civility and wisdom and violated all diplomatic norms.”

The United Nations has spoken out against what it said was an intensifying crackdown on the opposition and media in Uganda ahead of next month’s election.

Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday to protest a new national water law that imposes stricter controls on water use.

Belgium on Wednesday rejected a plan to use frozen Russian assets to help prop up Ukraine's economy and war effort over the next two years, saying that the scheme poses major financial and legal risks.

Germany arrested two Iraqi nationals suspected of membership in the so-called Islamic State group (IS) on Tuesday in coordinated raids across five cities, the Federal Public Prosecutor announced on Wednesday.

Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a partial collapse early on Wednesday, leaving the capital Havana and much of western Cuba in the dark, according to local media and eyewitness reports.

Afghanistan's Taliban administration and Pakistan have held fresh peace talks in Saudi Arabia and agreed to maintain a ceasefire, the latest attempt to dial down tensions between the South Asian neighbours.

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing in all growing regions in the war-scarred country, the United Nations says

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has said that agency experts have not yet been granted permission to access Iran’s main nuclear facilities at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, all of wh...

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As of 5:00 a.m., Havana and the Western provinces of Cuba (Mayabeque to Pinar del Rio) experienced a total power failure due to a partial collapse of Cuba’s electrical grid. According to Cuban regime media, the reason f...

Cuba said it had reconnected its electrical grid and was gradually restoring power after a partial collapse on Wednesday left capital Havana and much of western Cuba in the dark, the latest incident in an energy crisis t...