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The Pentagon has issued similar decks in the past to help forces familiarise themselves with elements of warfare over a hard-fought game of spades, hearts or poker...

The announcement set the stage for an upcoming election that will almost certainly keep the junta in power for years to come...

She will stay in New York until April 1 and will also visit Los Angeles on her return from Central America...

This is the highest donation received by the education institute which was established in 1989 and authorized by Florida State Government in 1993...

'Indisciplined' regiment takes heavy losses...

The fashion brand said it was partnering with Lalaland, a digital studio that uses artificial intelligence to create realistic computer-generated images of various body types wearing its clothing, including its famous denim jeans...

Since Moscow's invasion in February 2022, the Russian authorities have announced with fanfare the transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia to be adopted and become citizens...

Locals in Avdiyivka explain why they are choosing to remain even as the eastern Ukrainian city risks being wiped out by fighting, and recount the unimaginable hardships of frontline life amid the Russian invasion....

A reporter for The Wall Street Journal has been detained in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on charges of espionage, Russia's FSB security service said on March 30....

Thomas Tuchel has been tasked with rescuing Bayern Munich's Bundesliga season, starting with the visit of Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. What tactical changes will he make, and how will he get on with the Bayern bosses?...

A warm winter with relatively little snow means less water flowing into Europe's rivers come summer. This will require rethinking nuclear and hydropower production....

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it will look to monetise non-core assets and consider giving up control of some businesses, as the tech conglomerate reinvents itself.Group CEO Daniel Zhang said the company's breakup into separate businesses will allow ...

A man in Russia's western region of Tula, whose daughter drew an anti-war picture at school last year, has been arrested in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, after escaping house arrest in Russia....

For many children in Ghana, cerebral palsy can mean a lifetime of exclusion, particularly from the world of sports. But one club in the country is trying to change all that....

Four police officers were killed in northwestern Pakistan late on March 29, authorities said....

A new study says that rapidly melting Antarctic ice could impact oceans "for centuries to come."...

Mainland officials plan random and spot checks at medical facilities in the country to track incomplete and under-reported Covid-19 data, the country'......

The Orthodox monks accused of Russia links have been ordered out of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery. But they refuse to vacate the complex. DW has the latest....

Ukrainian forces continued to hold their ground on the eastern front over the past day, the military said on March 30, repelling dozens of attacks in and around Bakhmut, the city in the Donetsk region that has been the focal point of Russia's offensiv...

Premier Li Qiang on Thursday said the nation would take up its responsibility as the world's second-largest economy and act as an "anchor" for global......

Force will not be used to evict representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from the Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said on March 29 after monks who have been order...

Eight people are being investigated for possible misconduct after a fire at a migrant facility in Mexico left 39 people dead....

Russia will no longer give the United States advance notice about its missile tests as envisioned under a nuclear pact the Kremlin has suspended, a senior Moscow diplomat said on March 29....

Authorities have inspected documents related to the construction of a tennis stadium in Banja Luka for the Serbian Open tennis tournament organized by the family of the world's second-ranked men's player, Novak Djokovic....

The Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sports has condemned what it called the "partial change of position" of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in international sports competitions....

Before Russia's war in Ukraine, Olena Avilova's son, Andriy, worked in restaurants and cafes. He dreamed of opening a cafe of his own but died fighting in Kharkiv. Now his mother has brought his dream to life....

Four months after the disappearance of Molavi Abdul Ghaffar Naqshbandi, the Sunni imam from the Iranian city of Rask who disclosed the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a local police commander, a video has surfaced in which he warns of the possibilit...

U.S. forces left a trove of weapons behind when they withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. Some of those weapons have turned up in Pakistan, where they have been used by armed groups, according to experts and security officials....

Ukraine and seven other Central and Eastern European nations on March 29 called on the world's top tech firms to take action to fight disinformation by hostile powers on their social media platforms, which they say undermines peace and stability....

A former top executive at Russian natural gas producer Novatek has been convicted of tax evasion in the United States....

Under changes to election laws, extremists and other fringe candidates dominate the debates ahead of a snap poll on April 2, and the head of Bulgarian TV has even apologized to viewers for being forced to listen to "outright nonsense."...

What's behind the White House's repeated exclusion of Viktor Orban from one of its signature democracy-promotion events this week? One Hungarian analyst says maybe it's the ongoing "Putinization, antidemocratic tendencies, and the bucking ...

The German government has agreed to send an additional 12 billion euros ($13 billion) worth of military support to Ukraine....

Iranian teachers have protested in several different cities around the country over wages and poor living standards as unrest over social and economic issues that has plagued Iran for almost a year continues....

At least two people were killed in Russian missile strikes Monday against the eastern city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said. Follow here for live updates.At least two people were killed in Russian missile strikes Monday against...

The motive was not immediately known, but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, including entry points for the building, and left behind a 'manifesto'...

Congress Party leader was on March 23 sentenced to two years in jail by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his 'why all thieves have Modi surname' remark...

The US Congress has set the current annual regular cap for the category at 65,00...

Ecuador has witnessed heavy rainfall this year, causing almost 1000 dangerous events of landslides and flooding. The latest landslide buried dozens of homes in the country's Andean region....

Elon Musk said the measure will be taken to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over the platform. Read more at straitstimes.com....

"In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement on its Telegram account....

At least two people were killed in Russian missile strikes Monday against the eastern city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said. Follow here for live updates.At least two people were killed in Russian missile strikes Monday against...

Russia failed on March 27 to get the UN Security Council to ask for an independent inquiry into explosions in September on the Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany....

Hungary's parliament on March 27 approved Finland's bid to join NATO, putting an end to months of delays and bringing the Nordic country one step closer to becoming a full member of the Western military alliance....

Lyudmyla Subotina's son Andriy was among the Ukrainian soldiers killed in the defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol last March. Two days before he died, he had married a fellow soldier who was taken prisoner by Russia. Subotina has been on a...

Employees and retirees in the southwestern Iranian city of Shush have gone on strike to protest living standards and to push the government to approve wage and social payment increases in the Iranian New Year....

The Save Ukraine Foundation has brought 17 Ukrainian children home who had been taken by Russian authorities to annexed Crimea. Their parents had been persuaded by occupying forces in the Kherson region to send their children to a summer camp in Crimea to...

Dozens of schools in Bulgaria were evacuated on March 27 after bomb threats were e-mailed to the schools. Schools in the capital, Sofia, and the cities of Burgas and Varna on the Black Sea were among those affected....

An Iranian parliamentarian says the government's new strategy to enforce the compulsory wearing of the hijab will eliminate physical punishment for women and instead carry financial and administrative penalties that have been approved by the leader of...