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The rights to same-sex marriage and contraception are at a risk from conservative judges. The US Supreme Court decision ending the right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade in…
Brussels: Environmental activists on Friday criticised a compromise deal negotiated by the EU to update a decades-old agreement allowing energy firms to sue governments for hitting their profits. The Energy…
Washington: Leaders at the upcoming G7 summit in Germany will announce new measures aimed at pressuring Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior US official said Wednesday. "We will…
Sharan (Afghanistan): Desperate rescuers battled against the clock Thursday under pouring rain to pull survivors from the rubble after a powerful quake struck a mountainous border region of Afghanistan, killing…
Kyiv: EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern…
Washington: Arizona's top lawmaker testified Tuesday about the intense pressure Donald Trump piled on him to overturn the 2020 election, as congressional hearings into the former president's bid to cling…
It’s a moment many parents have anxiously awaited for months: Children younger than age 5 are now eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus, among the last Americans to qualify. Without…
Islamabad: Pakistan's Punjab province has decided to declare an "emergency" amid a rapid increase of reported cases of sexual abuse against women and children. Speaking at a press conference on…
KABUL, Afghanistan — A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan overnight, killing as many as 280 people and injuring more than 600 others, the country’s state-run Bakhtar news agency said…
The Saudi crown prince was expected in Turkey on Wednesday for his first visit since Saudi agents murdered the prominent dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018, driving…