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Authorities say the design of the North Nanjing station takes inspiration from plum blossoms, which the city is known for....
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Authorities say the design of the North Nanjing station takes inspiration from plum blossoms, which the city is known for....
Israel has reportedly deployed extra artillery and armoured personnel carriers to the Gaza Strip periphery, suggesting that the military is preparing for its long-threatened ground offensive on Rafah, the only place of relative safety for at least 1.4 million displaced Palestinian civilians....
Iran’s president has warned that the “tiniest invasion” by Israel would bring a “massive and harsh” response, as the region braces for potential Israeli retaliation after Iran’s attack over the weekend....
“We’re getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said following multiple attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine....
The European Union will “start the necessary work” to hit Iran with heavier sanctions after Saturday’s aerial attack on Israel, the bloc’s top diplomat has said....
The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030...
German police have arrested 10 people in an operation to combat people smuggling across eight states. The suspects are believed to have illegally procured clients residency permits in exchange for large sums of money....
An influential global body has forecast Russia’s economy will grow faster than all of the world’s advanced economies, including the US, this year....
Social media platform X has blocked posts in India involving political speech following orders from the country’s election commission ahead of upcoming polls, the company said late on Tuesday....
The extreme weather appeared to be the result of a relatively normal weather system bringing rain that had been turbocharged by ocean and atmospheric warming, said Janette Lindesay, a climate scientist at the Australian National University. “It’s highly likely that global heating has played a role in the intensity of the...
EU leaders look set to focus on Iran — where there is little they can achieve — while still failing to flex real muscle against Putin in Ukraine....
According to the report, the targets include an Iranian facility in Tehran or a cyberattack....
Explosions were reported in the town of Dzhankoi in occupied Crimea near a military airfield during the early hours of April 17, according to Russian-affiliated telegram channels. Following the explosions, a large-scale fire reportedly broke out at the airfield....
The attack on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador highlights a turbulent panorama in which diplomatic crises and bilateral tensions threaten regional integration...
Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat, has spent two years in an Iranian prison....
European Union leaders are gathering in Brussels for a special two-day summit focused on the bloc’s economic competitiveness....
A Russian missile attack has killed 13 people in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials....