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A new United Nations report says surging global food insecurity has placed 750,000 people in five countries — including Yemen and Afghanistan — at immediate risk of “starvation or death.” Over 400,000 of those displaced people are in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, with the remainder in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan, …

The UK is set to send a “cutting edge” rocket system to Ukraine to help the embattled troops halt Russia’s rapid advances in the besieged east of the country, despite Moscow’s warnings of not fanning the flames of war. The M270 multiple-launch rocket system will be sent to Ukraine, in …

The son of the disgraced late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos vowed on Tuesday to work for all people after his stunning election victory and told the world to judge him by his presidency, not his family’s past. Ferdinand Marcos Jr, better known as “Bongbong”, become the first candidate in recent …

Sri Lanka’s president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, a prominent lawmaker said Friday. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed that a national council will be appointed to name …

Russia’s Defense Ministry says its troops have taken control of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson as the Russian military campaign enters its 20th day. “The armed forces of the Russian Federation have taken full control of all the territory of Kherson region,” the ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said at a …

An Israeli settler armed with live ammunition has attacked Palestinian school girls in the occupied West Bank. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing medical sources, reported the shooting spree took place on Sunday morning in Tuqu, a Palestinian town southeast of Bethlehem. Bassam Jabr, an official of the Bethlehem Education Directorate, confirmed that …

Social media users have reported heavy deployment of Saudi security forces in the city of Qatif to crush any protest against the recent execution of scores of dissidents. According to Press TV, the regime executed as many as 81 prisoners in a single day on Saturday over what it called …

Israeli regime is trying to restrict the Palestinians’ right to education and undermine the academic freedom and autonomy of Palestinian universities, a report says. Officials at Birzeit University (BZU), located in the occupied West Bank, said the university rejected the Tel Aviv regime’s most recent attempt to limit the fundamental right …

Yemeni army troops and fighters from the allied Popular Committees have been engaged in fierce clashes with Saudi mercenaries in the country’s northwestern province of Hajjah, inflicting heavy losses on them and killing a senior militant commander. Informed sources, requesting anonymity, told Yemen’s official Saba news agency that Brigadier General …

Twelve people, including eight children, were killed early on Wednesday when flames swept through a public housing apartment building in Philadelphia in one of the city’s worst such fires in recent years. Philadelphia fire officials revised the death toll down to 12, from the 13 they reported earlier. “Keep those …

The congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack is studying whether it can issue subpoenas to Republican members of Congress to force their cooperation, according to the panel’s chairman. According to Press TV, Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday that the committee is seeking to …

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to be granted the most senior knighthood from Queen Elizabeth despite his infamous involvement in alleged war crimes during the US-led invasion of Iraq. “It is an immense honor to be appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, …

Hundreds of Ugandan soldiers in armoured vehicles crossed the border into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, two witnesses said, as a joint offensive against an Islamic State-linked armed group appeared to expand. Late on Tuesday Congo said special forces from both countries would be deployed to secure bases …

The Taliban government has sent an envoy to run the Afghan embassy in the Pakistani capital, senior Taliban sources said, as the new administration starts to take over Afghanistan’s network of foreign delegations. Mohammad Shokaib was appointed first secretary or charge d’affaires at the embassy, which has not had an …

Police in Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria raided 46 residential and commercial buildings on Wednesday as part of a European probe into the Italian mafia, German police said. They said they would release more information after the raids had been completed. The synchronized raids were the result of a European investigation …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has brushed off allegations that Moscow is using energy as a “weapon,” saying Europe’s gas shortage is largely caused by “systematic flaws” in the continent’s energy market. Speaking at a forum in the Russian capital, Moscow, the president blamed the “flaws” in the European energy market, …

China has called on Australia to abandon its “Cold War mentality” and re-evaluate its relationship with Beijing, following former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s visit to Chinese Taipei, during which he pledged that Canberra would support the self-ruled island against Beijing. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the remarks …

Hundreds of protesters from a neighborhood populated by former Afghan army servicemen marched in Kandahar Tuesday against plans by the Taliban to evict them from their homes. Residents of Zara Ferqa, a suburb made up of government housing and ramshackle huts, said they had been ordered to leave by the …

The ambassadors of the G7 group of advanced economies urged Tunisia’s president on Monday to appoint a new head of government as a matter of urgency and return to a constitutional order in which an elected parliament plays a significant role. The statement, put out by the British Embassy on …

Billionaire businessman and former prime minister, Najib Mikati, is very likely to give up on his mandate to form a new government for crisis-rocked Lebanon, which would deepen a political crisis that has left the Arab country without a government for more than nine months as people endure an unprecedented economic …