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The Nigerian government has clarified that Nigeria was not a candidate in the 2024 cycle of UN Human Rights Council Elections, refuting claims that the country was snubbed in the just concluded UN polls. Setting the record…

The United States said that on Sunday, it will send to Israel an advanced anti-missile system - and U.S. troops to operate it - in a bid to bolster the country's air defences following missile attacks by Iran. U.S. President Joe Biden…

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Several countries have argued over the origins and…

U.S. President Joe Biden is due to visit Germany on Friday, having cancelled a visit last week because of Hurricane Milton striking the U.S., German government sources said on Sunday. Spiegel magazine had earlier reported the new date,…

Israeli forces widened their raid into northern Gaza, and tanks reached the north edge of Gaza City, pounding some districts of the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and forcing many families to leave their homes, residents said. Residents…

An Iranian court cleared two jailed journalists of collaborating with the United States, and reduced their sentences over reports about a woman's death that had helped trigger protests in 2022, Iran's worst domestic unrest for decades.…

Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her hometown of Hiroshima, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over by the force of the blast. The U.S. bombs that laid waste to Hiroshima on the…

Kamala Harris has released her medical records, which concluded she is in "excellent health" and fit for the presidency. Following the disclosure, the Democratic Party's nominee to be the next US president accused Donald Trump of a lack…

An Indian politician has been shot dead in the commercial capital, Mumbai. Gunmen opened fire on Baba Siddique, 66, near the office of his son, who is also a politician, according to local media reports. Two people have been arrested…

Poland plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a strategy to limit illegal migration amidst tensions with Belarus, which Warsaw accuses of channelling migrants across its border. "One of the elements of the migration…