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Former US president Donald Trump has called his predecessor Joe Biden “insane, or suffering from late-stage dementia” after the latter accused Trump and his diehard right-wing supporters of being a threat to the United States. In a speech on Thursday night against Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) …

An explosion outside a mosque in Afghanistan has killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric and a number of civilians, marking the latest in a series of terrorist attacks since the Taliban’s rise to power last year. The blast, which took place during the Friday prayers in the Western city of Herat, …

The United States has provided Ukraine with so much weaponry to fight Russians that Pentagon stockpiles for some munitions are “uncomfortably low,” according to US military officials. The officials told The Wall Street Journal in a report published on Monday that some officials are particularly concerned about lower levels of …

Iranian Interior Ministry says border crossings to Iraq have been reopened hours after they were closed because of an eruption of violence in the country’s capital Baghdad. Authorities said on Tuesday that four main border crossings to Iraq had been reopened to travelers. Later statements said two of the crossings, …

Torrential rains and flooding have killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children, in Pakistan, where army helicopters plucked stranded families and dropped food packages to inaccessible areas while the UN appealed on Tuesday for $160 million in aid. The historic deluge, triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rains, has impacted …

More than two dozen Palestinians have been injured in the town of Rujeib, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, as clashes erupted after Israeli forces raided a house. Skirmishes started after the Israeli forces encircled a house in the early hours of Tuesday looking for two people who …

Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan’s military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she termed Chinese provocations. It was the first time warning shots have been fired in such an incident …

It is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday, highlighting evidence that case counts are slowing in a handful of countries. There are encouraging signs of a sustained week-on-week decline in the onset of cases in many European countries, including France, Germany, …

Fighting between armed groups in the Libyan capital has killed 12 people and wounded 87, the health ministry said Saturday, in the first official toll for the latest violent episode. The ministry’s statement on Facebook cited “preliminary figures on victims of the fighting in Tripoli,” which had flared Friday evening …

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has accepted “shared” responsibility for the fall of the country into Taliban hands, blaming himself for trusting the US which negotiated a deal with the militant group that brought about his ouster. “One has to take responsibility for trusting a partner that then trampled our …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top ally, Dmitry Medvedev, says if Ukraine had been allowed to join NATO, World War Three could have begun. In an interview with French TV network LCI, Medvedev also said it is not possible for Moscow to stop its military campaign in Ukraine even if Kiev formally renounces …

Poland has sealed a weapons deal worth $5.8 billion with South Korea for the purchase of tanks, howitzers and ammunition as the east European nation aims to replace armaments shipped to Ukraine. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, who also serves as the country’s defense minister, signed the arms deals on …

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is “ashamed” as hundreds of asylum-seekers have been forced to sleep in the sweltering heat outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in Ter Apel, a village in the northern Netherlands. “It is terrible what is happening in Ter Apel,” Rutte said on Friday, but …

A university in Washington DC that has been historically populated by Back students has received two bomb threats in 48 hours, the latest in a series of “racially charged acts” against the institution. Students on Howard University’s Washington DC campus had to evacuate the dormitories for the second time on Friday …

NATO’s secretary-general alleges that Russia’s military capabilities in the Arctic have come to pose a challenge to the Western military alliance in the region. Speaking during a visit to Canada on Friday, Jens Stoltenberg accused Moscow of creating “a significant military buildup” in the high North. He claimed that Russia …

The government of Pakistan has declared a state of emergency to deal with the monsoon floods that have hit areas across the country and affected more than 30 million people. Despite being essential every year to irrigate crops and fill lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, monsoons also bring …

The price of electricity in Germany and France for 2023 has soared to new records due to the European energy crisis caused by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. According to AFP, in Germany, the price of electricity for the year ahead reached €850 ($850) per megawatt hours (MWh) in the stock …

Pro-Palestine activists have rallied in Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota in the US, protesting against the state’s support for Israel. The protesters, who gathered outside the governor’s mansion, called on Minnesota’s State Board of Investment (SBI) to sell off its shares in Israeli corporations. The protest action, which …

China has reportedly conducted military exercises around Taiwan as tensions grow over US provocations, including visits by top American officials to Taipei. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, citing a spokesman for China’s People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theatre Command, reported on Friday that the drills are part of the routinized military operations …

Turkish military forces and their allied militants have reportedly shelled residential areas in the countryside of Syria’s northern province of Raqqah, as Turkey is apparently preparing for a new cross-border offensive in West Asian country. The shelling struck the villages of Abu Surra, al-Dibs and the M4 international highway in the …