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Clashes have erupted between stranded refugees and Polish border guards at the Polish-Belarusian border early on Tuesday. According to Poland’s Ministry of National Defence (MOD), refugees at the Kuznica border crossing trying to cross…

India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air pollution, according to an order from the federal environment ministry panel on air pollution. The Commission for…

The National Basketball Association and the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has announced a multi-year partnership to host the first NBA games in the Arabian Gulf. Two NBA preseason games have been scheduled in Abu Dhabi…

Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the remains of 25 people in the ancient city of Chan Chan. The skeletons were found in a small space measuring 10 sq m in what was once the capital of the Chimú empire. The Chimú ruled parts of…

The European Union is set to widen sanctions on Belarus as a migration crisis deepens along its border with Poland. Foreign ministers from the EU’s 27 member states were expected to approve the measures at a meeting in Brussels on…

US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar, three days after he was sentenced to 11 years behind bars for what Yangon said were breaches of immigration and “terrorism” laws, his employer and a former United States…

Germany's coronavirus infection rate has risen to its highest level since the start of the pandemic, public health figures showed on Monday, as the three parties in talks to form a new government plan an expansion of measures to tackle the…

Austria is placing about 2 million unvaccinated people in lockdown from Monday amid record infection levels and growing pressure on hospitals. "We are not taking this step lightly but it is necessary," Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg…

More than 600 migrants, many of them Egyptians, arrived in southern Italy over the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday, defying stormy winter seas in search of a better life in Europe. Italy has seen a sharp increase in boat migrants…

No clear winner has emerged in Bulgaria's parliamentary election, the third held this year, exit polls showed on Sunday, with the centre-right GERB party of former premier Boyko Borissov ahead in three surveys and a new centrist group…