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Two Taiwanese professors suspected of leaking state secrets to China

Beirut: The moment part of the port grain silos collapsed caught on camera

Tiger populations increased by 40 percent since 2015

Bill Russell: NBA leads tributes after Boston Celtics great dies at the age of 88

Zelenskyy says Russia has proven to be 'the biggest source of terrorism in today's world' after 'deliberate mass murder' of Ukrainian war prisoners

US President Joe Biden tests positive for Covid after 'rebound' infection

Brisbane teenager built spyware used by domestic violence perpetrators across the world, police allege

Italy: Outcry over killing of African migrant in town centre

UN: violence against Syrians refugees in Lebanon rising. Refugees denied equal access to bread

The town destroyed to make way for a whites-only suburb

Germany to send Ukraine 16 bridge-laying tanks, adding to its arsenal of Western weapons, as it wages a new offensive against the Russian invasion

MEPs propose auctioning off Russian assets, transferring funds to Ukraine

Adrenaline-seeking firefighter started French wildfires, say prosecutors | France

Brazil grants permit to pave highway through heart of Amazon forest

'Never seen anything like it': Impeccably preserved Jurassic fish fossils found on UK farm

Spain heatwave: PM tells workers to stop wearing ties to save energy

Some wounded Russian soldiers find compensation elusive, despite Putin’s pledge

Croatia opens 2km long Peljesac Bridge that links two parts of Croatia divided by a stretch of Bosnian territory on the Adriatic Sea.

Johnny Depp makes £3m in hours through sales of his art

Syrian ship carrying 'stolen Ukrainian barley, flour' docks in Lebanon, Ukrainian embassy says

Marina Ovsyannikova: Anti-war Russian journalist fined for 'discrediting army'

Hungary's leader rebuked for opposing 'mixed race' society

Emmanuel Macron could use veto to stop Boris Johnson becoming NATO secretary general

Every woman's body is beach ready, says Spanish government campaign

Animals Rights Activists Mad After Iran Forces' Killing of Over 1000 Dog

Covid in China: Million in lockdown in Wuhan after four cases

George Floyd death: Last two ex-officers sentenced to prison

Romania launches National Plan to integrate 100,000 refugees from Ukraine

Transnistria separatists set eyes on possible Russian unification

Ukraine orphanages: Children tied up and men in cots

Jewish Agency phones were tapped as Russian government has ordered the Jewish Agency to cease all operations inside the country

Blackouts in China as heatwave pushes electricity usage to record levels | High temperatures expected to continue for at least another week with more than 300 cities forecast to reach 35C

People in England urged to curb water use amid driest conditions since 1976

EU ministers agree to gas reduction plans

Zimbabwe Gives Nod to Cannabis Use in Medicines For First Time

Russia says it wants to end Ukraine's `unacceptable regime'

Zimbabwe launches gold coins to tackle soaring inflation

Grain prices shoot back up after Russian missile attack

Pope Francis: Pontiff says he is 'deeply sorry' to Canadian residential school survivors

Taiwan stages Chinese invasion war games with Ukraine in mind

Canada confirms death of Canadian fighting for Ukraine in Donbas

Hundreds of Palestinian lawyers held a rare street protest Monday against what they described as the Palestinian Authority's "rule by decree", condemning president Mahmud Abbas for governing without a parliament

France energy: Air-conditioned shops will be told to shut doors to cut waste

Evacuations ordered as volcano in western Japan erupts

Brazil election: Bolsonaro launches campaign

Micronesia, previously one of the few remaining COVID-free countries, reports outbreak

EU decides to ease sanctions on Russian oil exports

Thousands join Budapest Pride march in sweltering heat

FBI found Huawei equipment in Midwest could disrupt US nuclear communications: CNN

Vladimir Putin was replaced by a body double when he flew to Iran to meet Turkey's President Erdogan, Ukrainian intelligence claims

Ukraine strips down captured Russian drone, says it is full of Western parts, CNN reports

Thousands of Hungarians marched in Budapest on Saturday to defend LGBTQ rights, a year after the passage of a law widely described as discriminatory

Highest glacier on Mount Everest melting at alarming rate

Ukraine war: Missile strike puts grain deal in doubt

Child labor used in Hyundai US plants

Denying Unmarried Woman Right To Safe Abortion Violates Her Personal Autonomy & Freedom : Supreme Court of India

Two species of large river fish have been declared extinct in China, despite decades of work to save their populations

Steve Bannon: Jury finds Trump ally guilty of contempt of Congress

Alberta ultra-marathoner sets new record after running across Canada in under 68 days

Tunisia divided ahead of referendum

Pearl Jam cancel shows after Eddie Vedder’s vocal cords are damaged by wildfires in France

Trudeau: Conservatives' unwillingness to prioritize climate change policy "boggles my mind"

Lynne O'Donnell: Taliban detained, abused and threatened me

Russia about to 'run out of steam' in Ukraine

Droupadi Murmu: The woman who is India's first tribal president

Russia boasts it can "counteract" U.S. HIMARS after suffering heavy losses

Russia 'about to run out of steam' after 'epic fails' in Ukraine, MI6 chief says

China is now top priority for British intelligence, spy chief says

Guantanamo detainee cleared for release after 20 years of detention without trial

Kenya elections 2022: President Kenyatta halves cost of maize flour

Russian official who demanded Putin end war charged with discrediting army

Ukraine war round-up: Russia expands its aims and Putin's tricky Tehran moment

Greece bans 'sex-normalising' surgeries on intersex babies | Reuters

Ukrainian forces shoot down Russian fighter jet in Kherson region

In pictures: Heatwave bakes Western Europe

Brazil: Amazon deforestation up 20% last year. South America's largest country is losing trees at a rate of 18 per second according to a new report

Major incident declared across London after 'huge surge' in fires on UK's hottest-ever day | UK News

Ukraine Preparing to Target Russia's Black Sea Fleet With Western Weapons

Methanol in blood of teens who died in South African tavern

EU moves to unblock Russian bank funds to boost food trade: The European Union is preparing to carve out exceptions in its tough sanctions against Moscow that would unblock assets at Russian banks linked to trade in food and fertiliser

Ukraine preparing to target Russia's Black Sea fleet with Western weapons

Swiss nuclear power plant reduces output to protect fish during heatwave

Isfahan's Shah Mosque: iconic Iranian site damaged in restoration

Threat of prosecution hangs 'forever' over Ukraine war crimes perpetrators, EU's top justice official says

US woman arrested for faking her kidnapping in India

French journalist reveals he was hired by a PR firm to promote Bayer's glyphosate pesticide and downplay studies linking it to cancer

Texas shooting: Uvalde report finds 'systemic failures' by authorities

Richest 1% will account for 16% of emissions by 2030 (i.e. 70 tonnes of CO2/person annually) while the poorest 50% will account for 1 tonne of CO2/person annually.

British rugby player found dead in Italy hotel

Malaysian assets at risk globally as late Sultan's heirs claim $15 billion award

'Those people': French minister's LGBTQ remarks spark anger

Ukraine’s oldest human rights group fights for LGBTQ equality

Canada tells Putin’s technocrats they’re liable for war crimes – Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland slams Russia’s presence at G20: "Like inviting an arsonist to a meeting of firefighters"

The Iraqi political scene has been ablaze for the past 72 hours due to the emergence of recordings attributed to Nuri al-Maliki, the ex-Iraqi PM, in which he appears to be criticising and insulting Moqtada al-Sadr, whose faction won big in the 2021 general parliamentary election

Zelensky adviser accuses JPMorgan, HSBC of "war crimes" over Russian ties

Russia says it's stepping up operations as more rockets hit Ukraine

Bordeaux blazes rage, firefighting pilot killed in Portugal

After the tech exodus, Russian state prepares to fund its own 'national game engine'

Saudi Arabia: Biden raised Khashoggi murder with crown prince

Biden says US insists on 'full and transparent accounting' of death of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

NASA: June 2022 tied as Earth’s warmest June on record

Russia confirms it carried out Vinnytsia strike as fears grow in east Ukraine

Child of refugees becomes Germany's first black female cabinet minister

New exhibition explores African fantasy and race through art

British Army Joins NATO Exercise in Poland

Europe wildfires: Heatwave fuels blazes across the continent