World News Edition

The General Staff of North Macedonia has backed the transfer to Ukraine of 12 Mi-24 military helicopters that it purchased from Kyiv two decades ago, Macedonian Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said....

Polling stations opened in Turkmenistan on March 26 in a vote for all 125 members of a newly unicameral national legislature with diminished powers in the authoritarian Central Asian country...

How a flourishing underground subculture is providing a welcome escape from the realities of war....

Families of British military servicemen have reportedly been told they will need to vacate their homes to make way for migrants....

Long before Sophie received a new title of Duchess of Edinburgh earlier this month, there was a sense that her public profile was on the rise as King Charles looks toward a slimmed-down monarchy....

International condemnation has intensified over Moscow's plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, even as fighting raged in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, with the ruined city of Bakhmut continuing to be the focal point of Russia&#...

Caretaker PM Najib Mikati's decision to delay daylight saving until April 20 sparks a sectarian rift....

Ukrainian National Bank Governor Andriy Pishniy says the bank has settled its "open conflict" with the government and will avoid the "very dangerous" practice of printing new money to fund the war effort....

Little about his government's sudden push to remake the courts, or its response to the international backlash, bears the hallmark of a Netanyahu production....

Netanyahu is facing calls to fire Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, who called Saturday for a pause in ongoing judicial reform legislation....

China has mounted a global pressure campaign to poach the remaining countries that recognize Taiwan....

Oksana Leontieva, a pediatric hematologist and single mother, was driving to work when a Russian airstrike hit the center of the Ukrainian capital....

Latest deaths come as Italian media report that a record 2,000 refugees had arrived in Lampedusa within 24 hours....

Death toll at 26 after a powerful storm that spawned a tornado tears through US states of Mississippi and Alabama....

An economic and trade delegation of the General Chamber of Commerce of Taiwan wrapped up its visit to the Chinese mainland and left Beijing for Taiwan on Saturday, said the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council....

China will release 200,000 Chinese sturgeon into the Yangtze River, the country's longest river, starting Saturday, as part of its efforts to protect the rare fish....

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the China Development Forum 2023 on Sunday....

A screening event featuring works by renowned Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini opened Friday in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province....

China and Honduras signed a joint communique in Beijing on Sunday on the establishment of diplomatic relations....

A new nuclear power unit using Hualong One, a domestically designed third-generation nuclear reactor, was put into operation in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday, paving the way for commercial operation....

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Sunday said China wishes Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a speedy recovery and will stay in communication with the Brazilian side about the president's visit to China....

At the Shangrou Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Dojo gym in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, a dozen of young people in gis are practicing jiu-jitsu skills just taught by their coach, as the sounds of wrestling and cheers reverberate in the room....

The Honduran foreign ministry announced on Saturday that Honduras is severing the so-called "diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities....

Ex-US president casts 2024 contest in apocalyptic terms, compares investigations against him with 'Stalinist Russia'....

Honduras switches diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China, leaving Taipei recognised by just 13 sovereign states....

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced late Saturday afternoon in a tweet that the death toll had risen to 25 and that dozens of people were injured....

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said the duo landed safely at Key West International Airport at about 10:30 a.m. local time and were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol....

Israel's defense minister, a senior ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called for a freeze on the government's attempt to remake the judicial system....

Armenia and Turkey plan to permanently open border crossings between the two countries for the first time in three decades, Armenian officials announced....

Protests intensify against President Emmanual Macron's plans to raise the retirement age....

As mass protests grip Israel, Yoav Gallant says the dispute over the measures pose a threat to the country's security....

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday called on the government to halt legislation on changes to the judiciary, saying the bitter dispute over the measures poses a danger to the country....

Verdict: False...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a deal to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus....

Separately, Britain's defence ministry said the months-long Russian assault on the city had stalled, mainly as a result of heavy troop losses...

Wild protests have become a fixture of Parisian nightlife after the French government rammed through a pension bill last week raising the retirement age to 64...

Search and rescue teams were out in Rolling Fork, a town of 1,700 people that saw the brunt of the tornado...

Gordon E. Moore became a billionaire as a result of an initial $500 investment in the fledgling microchip business...

Diplomacy only way to achieve peace: Blinken...

Russian president says deal struck with Belarusian counterpart would not violate nuclear nonproliferation agreements....

The Russian Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijan of violating a Moscow-brokered cease-fire agreement by allowing its troops to cross over a set demarcation line....

The United Nations nuclear watchdog has said Director-General Rafael Grossi will travel next week to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which was seized by Russian forces shortly after they invaded Ukraine....

The West's steady criticism of Hungary on democratic and cultural issues makes the country's right-wing government reluctant to offer support on practical matters, specifically NATO's buildup against Russia....

Homespun groups of volunteers are fighting with themselves and undermining the war effort. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has reached agreement to station tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of close ally Belarus, which borders both Russia and Ukraine....