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North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency has said as Seoul warned of a "grave security threat." The allegation comes a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he…

U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to fortify cooperation with key European partners on issues from the Ukraine war to conflict in the Middle East during a swift swansong trip to Berlin on friday. "We’re wheels down in Berlin," Biden…

A Texas judge has blocked the execution of the first man to be put on death row in the US for murder charges related to "shaken baby syndrome", less than two hours before the capital punishment was due to be carried out. Robert Roberson,…

The United States has filed charges against an Indian government employee involved in a failed plot to kill an American citizen, who is a prominent advocate for Sikh separatism in New York. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern…

The conservative Dutch government is analysing a plan to send denied African asylum seekers to Uganda, according to the country's trade and development minister. Reinette Klever disclosed the plan during a visit to the East African…

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has called for probe into reports that a large group of Afghan migrants had been killed on the Afghanistan-Iran border. Afghan media outlets, Tolo News, citing witnesses, said more than 200…

After more than six weeks of protests over the high cost of living on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, the local prefecture has signed a deal to cut soaring food prices. Jean-Christophe Bouvier, France's prefect in Martinique,…

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar remains unrepentant about the Oct. 7 attacks a year ago, people in contact with him have said, despite unleashing an Israeli invasion that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, laid waste to his Gaza…

Israel has stopped processing requests from traders to import food to Gaza, according to 12 people involved in the trade, choking off a track that for the past six months supplied more than half of the besieged Palestinian territory's…

U.S. President Joe Biden takes off for Berlin on Thursday for a rapid visit to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain as Kyiv urges its western allies to take urgent steps to end the fighting.…