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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores....

Pope Francis heads to Portugal this week for a global gathering of young Catholics as the country grapples with a report into decades of sexual abuse of children by members of the Church....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia’s war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks....

A fire at a power station in southern Iraq and several explosions have affected the country’s ailing national electricity grid as temperatures rise....

A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hardline political and Muslim leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 35 people, local officials said....

The defence forces of Ukraine successfully struck the Chonhar Bridge on Saturday morning.

Given their low immunogenicity, diversified targets and ability to offer higher biosafety, the adeno-associated viral vectors are actively being evaluated for the development of various therapies for the treatment of chronic diseases and infections...

Russian President Vladimir Putin reviewed a parade of warships and nuclear submarines in his native St. Petersburg on Sunday and announced that the Russian Navy would receive 30 new ships this year....

Agitators from the Kuki-Zo community suspect that this could be an attempt to bring in ‘radical’ Meiteis disguised as State forces into Moreh, while police have called such allegations ‘misleading’

Conflict over Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul judiciary is leading to new levels of civil disobedience – and potential security risks

BEIRUT, July 30 (Reuters) - Once feted as a financial wizard, Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh leaves the post he has held for 30 years on Monday, his legacy stained by the devastating collapse of Lebanon’s banking sector and corruption charges at home and abroad....

A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday....

Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, receiving close to $2 billion a year in official development assistance, according to the World Bank....

Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan was awarded a place in the 2024 Paris Olympics by the IOC on Friday after she was disqualified at the world championships for refusing to shake the hand of her Russian opponent.

The defence forces of Ukraine successfully struck the Chonhar Bridge on Saturday morning.

Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia’s war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks....

For Chilean band Hacia La Victoria (Onwards to Victory), performing songs in their hometown of Santiago is an act of protest....

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday defended an unprecedented crackdown on dissenting voices in Russia at a time of “armed conflict” with Ukraine, urging everyone to follow “certain rules.”...

Until last year it was not really possible for most unmarried women to become mothers in China - practically speaking. But a social change is under way and it is driving shifts in policy too....

July 29 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that an African initiative could be a basis for peace in Ukraine but that Ukrainian attacks made it hard to realise....

The Astoria Grande cruise ship, carrying some 800 passengers including Russians, was forced to leave the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi on July 27 upon arriving there the same day from the Russia port of Sochi, after groups of Georgians protested its presence there.