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Authorities in Taiwan are warning residents along its eastern coast to brace for the impacts super Typhoon Kong-rey, which has rapidly intensified as it barrels towards the island after bashing the Philippines. Kong-rey, moving northwest…

American President Joe Biden has pledged his support to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Nigeria's pursuit of a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Biden highlighted Nigeria's leadership role in Africa and its…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had agreed with South Korea's president to step up contacts between their nations at all levels to develop countermeasures and a strategy to respond to North Korea's involvement in the war in…

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has defended his newspaper's decision to stop making presidential endorsements, saying the move could help improve credibility. Mr Bezos, who is also the Amazon founder, argued in an article on the Post's…

Donald Trump on Monday told supporters in Georgia he is “the opposite of a Nazi,” as he responded to comparisons of his Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden to a 1939 pro-Nazi gathering at the same venue. The former president also…

China's Ministry of State Security said on Tuesday that it had retrieved spying devices both on the ocean surface and in the depths of the sea, including underwater "lighthouses" that could guide the transit of foreign submarines. The…

Hezbollah has announced Naim Qassem as its new head, from deputy leader, as announced on Tuesday, replaces Hassan Nasrallah as secretary-general of the Lebanon-based armed group. Nasrallah was killed in Beirut in late September by an…

Four people were killed and another six injured in Russia's multi-wave overnight attacks on Ukraine's two largest cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. Russia attacks Ukrainian regions almost every night with…

President Joe Biden on Monday cast his ballot in the U.S. presidential election, voting early in his home state of Delaware for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in her race against Republican Donald Trump. The president, who…

Israeli tanks thrust deeper on Monday into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, in what the military said were operations to eliminate regrouping Hamas…