Ukraine, Moldova all set to launch EU membership talks
Ukraine is set to officially launch membership talks with the European Union on Tuesday in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described as a dream come true for his country’s citizens more than two years into a war with Russia. Deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration Olga Stefanishyna will lead...
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King Charles III welcomes visiting Japanese emperor and empress
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NASA calls off spacewalk after spacesuit water leak
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Chang’e-6 probe brings back first-ever samples from Moon’s far side
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Part of Kenya parliament set on fire amid protest
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Prosecutor in classified documents case clashes with judge over request to restrict Trump’s speech
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Canada’s Liberals suffer major upset in Toronto special election
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Aus leaders welcome expected plea that could bring Assange home
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed from UK prison
A plane carrying Julian Assange landed Tuesday in Bangkok for refuelling, as the WikiLeaks founder was on his way to enter a plea deal with the US government that will free him and resolve the legal case that spanned years and continents over the publication of a trove of classified...
Sunak withdraws party support from 2 over betting scandal
Adding to the turmoil for an embattled Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister on Tuesday decided to withdraw his party’s backing from two of his Conservative colleagues embroiled in a betting scandal over the date of the general election. The move comes just over a week before the July 4 polls...
Israeli SC says ultra-Orthodox men must serve in military
Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for military service, a decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza. The court ruled that in the absence of a...
Poland President visits China
(): Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is in China on a visit that brings the leader of a NATO member to a country that has backed Russia in its full-on invasion of Ukraine. “I am trying to maintain friendly relations with China, Poland has always had decent relations with China and I...
Iran, Bahrain to resume diplomatic ties
(): Iran and Bahrain have agreed to talk about how they might resume bilateral relations after nearly eight years, Iranian media reported on Monday. The report by state-run IRNA news agency said Iran’s acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani spoke on the...
Teenage Pak boy kills man over ‘blasphemy’
A 14-year-old seminary student stabbed a man belonging to the Shia minority Muslim community to death for allegedly speaking against the companions of Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Monday, the second blasphemy-related killing in the country in four days. The incident occurred on Sunday in Kunjah, Gujrat,...
‘PTI committed suicide when it decided to merge with SIC’
Pakistan’s top judge on Monday said he was puzzled why jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf committed political “suicide” when it decided to merge with the Sunni Ittehad Council ahead of the February 8 general elections. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa made the remarks as...
