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At least 35 killed in Iraq COVID ward fire
At least 35 people have been killed in a fire at a COVID isolation ward in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, ...Afghan girl kills two Taliban fighters after parents murdered
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Russian drones attacked Ukrainian cities and missiles blasted an apartment block, but a months-long ground assault on the eastern town of Bakhmut ...Nationwide protests in France after Macron doubles down on pension bill
Train services were disrupted and some schools shut while garbage piled up on the streets of France on Thursday as part of ...Three dead as Russia launches new attack on Ukraine
Three people were killed in an overnight Russian drone strike on civilian infrastructure in the Kyiv region, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday ...Earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 13, nine of them in Pakistan
At least 13 people were killed and more than 90 injured in Pakistan and Afghanistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck late ...Ukraine says missiles blown up in annexed Crimea, Russia says civilians targeted
Ukraine’s defence ministry said on Monday that an explosion in Dzhankoi in the north of the Crimean peninsula destroyed Russian cruise missiles ...Switzerland’s secretive Credit Suisse rescue rocks global finance
Days before a hastily convened press conference late on Sunday that would make the world’s front pages, Switzerland’s political elite were secretly ...‘Dear friends’ Xi and Putin meet in Moscow as Ukraine war rages
Chinese President Xi Jinping met his “dear friend” Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, seeking both to deepen economic ties with an ...China’s Xi Jinping in Russia for talks with Putin
Chinese President Xi Jinping flew into Moscow on Monday where he was expected to press Beijing’s role as a potential peacemaker in ...Bank shares plummet as Credit Suisse rescue fails to quell contagion fears
Banking stocks and bonds plummeted on Monday as the hit to investors from UBS Group’s state-backed takeover of Credit Suisse fanned concerns ...Putin makes surprise trip to Russian-occupied Mariupol in wake of ICC warrant
A day after being accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian ...