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Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them....

Twenty-year-old Jamngaihkim Gangte’s life has altered over the past four weeks. A college student in Imphal, her mother, a government servant, and her brothe...

British pop-rock band The 1975 has cancelled upcoming concerts in Indonesia and Taiwan after its gig in Malaysia was controversially cut short....

Hundreds of millions of pounds in British aid spending is returning to the Treasury each year in tax, thanks to the spiralling cost of housing asylum seekers in UK hotels....

At least 16 civilians have reportedly been killed in an exchange of rocket fire between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war-torn Darfur region, which has seen some of the worst violence since fighting began in mid-April....

DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — Abdikadir Omar was trapped in an extremist-controlled town in Somalia for years until May, when he slipped out to make a 12-day journey with his wife and seven children to neighboring Kenya in search of food and safety....

Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers have said, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone....

A United Nations expert has expressed concern that tens of thousands of children remain in arbitrary detention in northeastern Syria based on their parents’ alleged ties to ISIL (ISIS) in violation of international law....

Greece is bracing for more intense heat this weekend, with meteorologists warning that temperatures could climb as high as 45C (113F)....

BUCHAREST, July 21 (Reuters) - Romania’s Constanta port, Ukraine’s main alternative route for grain since Russia’s withdrawal led to the collapse of the Black Sea shipment deal, has capacity to handle extra cargoes until mid-August, the head of the port’s business association said....

Russia’s foreign ministry has imposed tight travel restrictions on British diplomats working in the country....

Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.

Ethnic violence has plunged the small Indian state of Manipur into what many have dubbed a state of civil war as the two largest groups, the majority Meitei and minority Kuki, battle over land and influence....

Kenya’s opposition is due to protest for a second day on Thursday over the high cost of living and tax hikes after police clashed with demonstrators and arrested at least 300 people on Wednesday....

The bitter battle to name Thailand’s next prime minister took a major turn as parliament voted to deny Pita Limjaroenrat, whose progressive Move Forward Party won a surprise victory in May’s election, a second chance to be confirmed for the post....