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The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of the virus which has been reported in poultry in the country....

A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging....

Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds...

One assailant has been hospitalized after being shot and wounded by the Lebanese army. The embassy said no staff were harmed in the incident....

The longstanding effort to keep extremist forces out of government in Europe is officially over....

Brussels is expected to inform Chinese carmakers of new duties on electric vehicles only after Sunday’s election....

A group of eight Holocaust survivors drew parallels between the current political climate and that of Germany in the 1930s. Some of them condemned the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD)....

Japan’s transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated....

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will allow recruits from foreign countries, including the UK, to help grow its ranks....

Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced Canada’s hydropower production, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change....

The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased....

Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cut...

Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s first woman president....

A senior Ukrainian official hinted Monday that, despite Kremlin threats, Kyiv may have already begun using Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia....

The Philippine military chief on Tuesday said the Chinese coast guard seized one of four food packs dropped by a plane for Filipino navy personnel at a territorial outpost that has been surrounded by Chinese vessels in the disputed waters of the South China Sea....

US president’s remarks to Time magazine about PM’s role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government...

Politicians and figures linked to the far-right Alternative for Germany party use TikTok as a “parallel universe” to spread extremism, a study says. Meanwhile, other parties show “weak performance” on the platform....

Police in the Chinese territory took away Sanmu Chen on a street close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown....

Julie Adams, who abstained from certifying May results, belongs to Election Integrity Network, founded by Trump ally Cleta Mitchell...

Russia knows Putin’s Crimea bridge is “doomed,” a Ukrainian official told The Economist....

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has vowed to put an end to the “wide-open doors” policy with new limitations on one of Europe’s most open immigration regimes....

One in three Republican voters would have preferred a different candidate to Donald Trump for the upcoming presidential election....

The president also called Trump, who was found guilty last week in his New York criminal trial, “unhinged.”...

Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that he was the target of an assassination attempt....

A new report shows witnesses who testify at Donald Trump’s criminal trials are receiving some very nice financial perks....

Germany wants to be climate neutral by 2045. But a panel of government climate advisers says it’s already in danger of missing a key target to cut planet-heating emissions by the end of the decade....

Lithuania is busy digging up a remote forest to host German troops....

Russia’s attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing’s unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....

A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Italian police said on Monday....

The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has warned China not to cross a red line in the South China Sea, where a standoff between the countries continues to escalate....

Flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least seven people, the country’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has said....

A woman will lead the country for the first time in history. President López Obrador’s successor has won a second term for the National Regeneration Movement and stifled the conservative coalition’s aspirations...

The Dutch position contrasts with Belgian policy, under which donated F-16s cannot be used by Kyiv to hit targets inside Russia....

Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say....

European countries are getting increasingly frustrated with Budapest’s obstructions on Ukraine military aid and Russia sanctions....

Ukrainian president unleashes on Beijing, saying it’s helping Moscow threaten countries with higher food and fuel prices to convince them not to attend June 15-16 meeting....

North Korea is sending more balloons carrying rubbish across the heavily fortified southern border, South Korea’s military has said....

New rules banning loudspeakers and limiting tour group sizes to 25 people have come into force in Venice....

Estonia considers itself a front-line state, a Nato member where its border guards stare across the Narva River at the Russian fortress of Ivangorod....

Kyiv is making it increasingly difficult for Russia to keep the peninsula supplied....

Hailing from across the political spectrum, young people are looking to breathe new life into EU policymaking....

At Asia’s largest defense summit, the president of the Philippines discussed maritime tensions with Beijing over the South China Sea. Meanwhile, top US and Chinese defense officials held a rare meeting on the sidelines....

The UK and the US struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen on Thursday in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, three US officials said....

Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia....

After Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in Manhattan on Thursday, his estranged niece has said he should “absolutely” go to jail....

The proposed curriculum overhaul was released a week after the Texas GOP proposed requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. School districts that opt to use them will get more funding....

Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy....