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More than 600,000 additional people were internally displaced in Ukraine in the first 17 days of April, the International Organization for Migration said on Thursday, pushing the total number since the start of the war above 7.7 million, or 17% of the population. The new assessment conducted between April 11 …

Two children were injured in a bomb blast in the fifth security district of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The Interior Ministry of the Taliban interim government said in a statement on Thursday that two children were injured in an explosion in the fifth security district of Kabul. According to …

French President Emmanuel Macron has maintained his lead over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen following a prickly television head-to-head debate, a poll showed on Thursday. With just three days to go before Sunday’s election run-off, the two were due back on the campaign trail – Macron in a Paris suburb …

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday proposed a “global security initiative” that upholds the principle of “indivisible security”, a concept also endorsed by Russia, although he gave no details of how it would be implemented. During a video speech to the annual Boao Asia Forum, Xi said that the world …

A blast occurred near the Youth Foundation building in Istanbul on Thursday, the governor’s office said, adding that fragments of an improvised explosive device have been found on the site. “There are reports about an explosion in front of the branch of the Turkish Youth Foundation in the Gaziosmanpasa district …

SIS has claimed responsibility for an attack in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif, via its Telegram channel. An explosion at a Shia mosque in the northern city Thursday killed or wounded at least 60 people, a local Taliban commander said. “A blast happened in 2nd district inside a Shi’ite mosque, more than 60 …

President Vladimir Putin announced victory in the biggest battle of the Ukraine war on Thursday, declaring the port of Mariupol “liberated” after nearly two months of siege, despite hundreds of defenders still holding out inside a giant steelworks. In a televised meeting with his defence minister inside the Kremlin, Putin …

News sources reported that the Yemeni ceasefire has been violated by the Saudi coalition forces 89 times during the past day. Ansarullah, quoting a Yemeni military source, reported that the violation includes the construction of military bases, as well as the attacks and flights of 12 Saudi spy planes over …

More than 100 ISIS and Boko Haram terrorists were killed in a joint military operation by Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon, a Nigerian commander said on Sunday. Multinational Joint Task Force spokesman Colonel Muhammad Dole said that during the operation, troops had ventured deep into enclaves controlled by the terrorists in …

British police closed a road in central London near Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s official residence on Monday and said they had arrested a man armed with a knife who had confronted two Ministry of Defense police officers. Whitehall, which is home to several government departments including the finance ministry, Foreign …

Russian troops on Monday captured the east Ukraine town of Kreminna, local authorities said, as Kyiv’s armed forces launched salvos on Russian forces in the nearby settlement of Rubizhne. “There was a major attack in the night” from Sunday to Monday in Kreminna, the Lugansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday said …

Cities across the United States are witnessing an “epidemic of deaths” on the streets as the homeless population is growing in size and age and becoming more vulnerable to illnesses, according to a report. The wider availability of deadly illicit drugs, especially fentanyl, on the streets has been a major …

The ongoing conflict has not interrupted energy supplies Russia continues to supply natural gas to Europe through Ukrainian territory without interruptions, the spokesman for Russian energy major Gazprom, Sergey Kupriyanov, told the media on Monday. “Gazprom supplies Russian gas for transit through Ukrainian territory in accordance with requests of European …

Iran on Monday said an agreement with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal was still not in sight, blaming the United States for the delay. “More than one issue is still pending between Iran and the United States,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said. “Messages (from Washington) …

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday. They also talked about “the problems of the Middle East settlement in the context of escalating tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,” the Kremlin …

Ukrainian president said that his country is not prepared to give up its territories Ukraine is not prepared to give up its territories and is ready, if needed, to fight with Russia “for ten years,” the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said. In an interview with CNN, Zelensky said that for …

The death toll from Pakistani military airstrikes in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar has risen to at least 47, officials said on Sunday. “Forty-one civilians, mainly women, and children, were killed and 22 others were wounded in airstrikes by Pakistani forces near the Durand line in Khost …

Several hours after the surrender deadline, there was no sign of compliance by the last standing Ukrainian fighters in the strategic port city. A Russian ultimatum for the last remaining Ukrainian forces in Mariupol to surrender has expired, as Moscow seems poised for a major strategic victory in the southeastern …

Floods have killed more than 400 and caused at least 10 billion rand ($684.58 million) in damage in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), a senior provincial official said on Sunday, as rescuers hunted for the missing and more rain was expected. The floods have left thousands homeless, knocked out power and water services …

Divers have inspected the hull of the tanker that sank off Tunisia’s coast with 750 tonnes of diesel. Divers have inspected the hull of a tanker loaded with 750 tonnes of fuel that sank off southeastern Tunisia, with no leak detected so far, officials said. The crew of the Xelo …