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Africa Needs Grain Imports, Key Countries Say Ahead of Putin Talks

Africa Needs Grain Imports, Key Countries Say Ahead of Putin Talks

Key African countries stressed the need for grain imports to tackle food insecurity as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to...

US Criticizes Afghanistan, Russia, Others in Human Trafficking Report

US Criticizes Afghanistan, Russia, Others in Human Trafficking Report

The U.S. government has released its annual report surveying human trafficking around the world, and Afghanistan, China and Russia are...

Study Upbeat on Immigrants in World’s Richest Nations  

Study Upbeat on Immigrants in World’s Richest Nations  

Despite a surging far right and anti-immigrant rhetoric in a number of rich nations, immigrants flocking to them are faring...

Russia Faces New Scenario in Baltic Region

Russia Faces New Scenario in Baltic Region

Finland’s accession to NATO and Sweden’s bid for membership have turned the Baltic region into a stronghold of alliance forces,...

Chinese EV Makers Make Progress in Bid to Dominate British Market

Chinese EV Makers Make Progress in Bid to Dominate British Market

Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles are stepping up their push to dominate the European market. As Amy Guttman reports from...

Washington Nonprofit Helps Ukrainian Refugees Learn English

Washington Nonprofit Helps Ukrainian Refugees Learn English

A nonprofit in Washington is helping refugees from around the world learn English. Ksenia Turkova met with some Ukrainians who wound up in the U.S. capital and are learning English. Camera: Bogdan...

Greece Continues Rescue Effort After Migrant Boat Sinking

Greece Continues Rescue Effort After Migrant Boat Sinking

At least 79 migrants have drowned and hundreds more remain missing and feared dead after their battered and overloaded boat...

Scathing Report Finds Boris Johnson Deliberately Misled UK Parliament Over ‘Partygate’

Scathing Report Finds Boris Johnson Deliberately Misled UK Parliament Over ‘Partygate’

A committee of lawmakers harshly rebuked former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday, saying he lied to Parliament about...

Bill Gates Visits China for Health, Development Talks

Bill Gates Visits China for Health, Development Talks

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates was in China on Thursday for what he said were meetings with global health and development...

Latest in Ukraine: NATO Discusses More Military Support for Ukraine

Latest in Ukraine: NATO Discusses More Military Support for Ukraine

Latest developments: Speaking ahead of next week’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country "will...

Cambodian Facial Recognition Effort Raises Fears of Misuse

Cambodian Facial Recognition Effort Raises Fears of Misuse

Experts are raising concerns that a recent Cambodian government order allocating around $1 million to a local company for a...

NATO Ministers to Review Ukraine’s Short- and Long-Term Needs

NATO Ministers to Review Ukraine’s Short- and Long-Term Needs

Ukraine’s security needs, both immediate and long-term, are expected to dominate the discussion when NATO defense ministers meet Thursday and...

Belarus Takes Delivery of Russian Nuclear Weapons, President Says

Belarus Takes Delivery of Russian Nuclear Weapons, President Says

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said his country has begun taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he...

Serbian Arrest of Three Kosovo Police Officers Triggers New Row

Serbian Arrest of Three Kosovo Police Officers Triggers New Row

Three Kosovo police officers were detained by Serbian forces on Wednesday but officials from Kosovo and Serbia gave different locations...

Erdogan Dampens Hopes of Sweden Joining NATO in July

Erdogan Dampens Hopes of Sweden Joining NATO in July

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday rebuffed growing international pressure on Ankara to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership bid before...

FIFA OKs Women’s World Cup Broadcast Deal for 5 European Nations

FIFA OKs Women’s World Cup Broadcast Deal for 5 European Nations

The Women’s World Cup will be broadcast in Britain, Spain, France, Germany and Italy after governing body FIFA extended its...

As Deepfake Fraud Permeates China, Authorities Target Political Challenges Posed by AI

As Deepfake Fraud Permeates China, Authorities Target Political Challenges Posed by AI

Chinese authorities are cracking down on political and fraud cases driven by deepfakes, created with face- and voice-changing software that...

Bill Gates in China to Meet President Xi on Friday – Sources 

Bill Gates in China to Meet President Xi on Friday – Sources 

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp’s co-founder, is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday during his visit to China,...

EU Lawmakers Vote for Tougher AI Rules as Draft Moves to Final Stage

EU Lawmakers Vote for Tougher AI Rules as Draft Moves to Final Stage

EU lawmakers on Wednesday voted for tougher landmark draft artificial intelligence rules that include a ban on the use of...

Casket of Italian Ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi Brought to Cathedral for Funeral

Casket of Italian Ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi Brought to Cathedral for Funeral

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was honored Wednesday with a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo cathedral and a day of...

EU Regulators Order Google To Break up Digital Ad Business Over Competition Concerns

EU Regulators Order Google To Break up Digital Ad Business Over Competition Concerns

European Union antitrust regulators took aim at Google’s lucrative digital advertising business in an unprecedented decision ordering the tech giant...

Greece: 59 Migrants Dead, Dozens Feared Missing After Fishing Vessel Capsizes

Greece: 59 Migrants Dead, Dozens Feared Missing After Fishing Vessel Capsizes

At least 59 people have died and dozens are feared missing off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing...