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Kosovo Serbs Gather to Take Over Municipality Buildings in the North

Kosovo Serbs Gather to Take Over Municipality Buildings in the North

Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo on Monday tried to take over the local government buildings where Albanian mayors entered last...

Mushroom Coffin a Last Best Wish for Some

Mushroom Coffin a Last Best Wish for Some

For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too. A Dutch intrepid inventor...

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Targets Kyiv with Drones, Missiles

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Targets Kyiv with Drones, Missiles

New developments:   South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will investigate U.S. allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a...

Belarus Official: West Left Us No Choice but to Deploy Nuclear Arms

Belarus Official: West Left Us No Choice but to Deploy Nuclear Arms

Western countries left Belarus no choice but to deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons and had better take heed not to...

Ukraine’s Kostyuk Booed at French Open, Refused Handshake With Belarus Player

Ukraine’s Kostyuk Booed at French Open, Refused Handshake With Belarus Player

Unable to sleep the night before her first-round match at the French Open against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the Grand...

NATO Chief Urges Kosovo to Ease Tensions With Serbia

NATO Chief Urges Kosovo to Ease Tensions With Serbia

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called on Kosovo to tone down tensions with Serbia on Sunday, two days after clashes between...

New Greek Parliament Convenes, May Be Dissolved on Monday

New Greek Parliament Convenes, May Be Dissolved on Monday

Newly elected Greek lawmakers were sworn in Sunday but the Parliament in which they sit may be dissolved as early...

Italy PM: Good Ties With China Possible Without Belt and Road 

Italy PM: Good Ties With China Possible Without Belt and Road 

Good relations with China are possible even without being part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) deal, Italian Prime...

Venice Police Investigate Bright Green Liquid in Grand Canal

Venice Police Investigate Bright Green Liquid in Grand Canal

Police in Venice are investigating the source of a phosphorescent green liquid patch that appeared Sunday in the city’s famed...

Spain Holds Regional Elections Ahead of Year-End National Vote

Spain Holds Regional Elections Ahead of Year-End National Vote

Spanish voters head to the polls on Sunday in regional and municipal elections, the results of which will serve as...

Russia Launches Largest Drone Attack on Ukraine’s Capital

Russia Launches Largest Drone Attack on Ukraine’s Capital

Russia hit Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight with the largest drone attack on the city since the start of the war....

Turkey Votes for a President in Second Runoff

Turkey Votes for a President in Second Runoff

Voters in Turkey are going to the polls Sunday to decide who will be the country’s president. Sunday’s vote is...

Putin Orders Stronger Russian Border Security

Putin Orders Stronger Russian Border Security

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered stronger border security to ensure fast Russian military and civilian movement into Ukrainian regions...

Erdogan Positioned to Extend Rule in Turkey Runoff Election

Erdogan Positioned to Extend Rule in Turkey Runoff Election

Turks vote Sunday in a presidential runoff that could see Tayyip Erdogan extend his rule into a third decade and...

US Commerce Secretary: US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Ban on Micron Chips

US Commerce Secretary: US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Ban on Micron Chips

The United States “won’t tolerate” China’s effective ban on purchases of Micron Technology MU.O memory chips and is working closely...

Tehran: Zelenskyy Using Iran to Gain West’s Support

Tehran: Zelenskyy Using Iran to Gain West’s Support

Iran struck back at Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, saying his accusation the Islamic republic is arming Russia was...

Waters Rejects Berlin Incitement Accusations over Concert Outfit

Waters Rejects Berlin Incitement Accusations over Concert Outfit

Police in Berlin said Friday that they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a...

Ukraine Readies for Counteroffensive, Says Kyiv Official

Ukraine Readies for Counteroffensive, Says Kyiv Official

Drone attacks targeted oil pipeline installations inside Russia Saturday, including a station serving the vast Druzhba oil pipeline that sends...

France Confirms Bird Flu Vaccination After Favorable Tests

France Confirms Bird Flu Vaccination After Favorable Tests

France confirmed its aim to launch a vaccination program against bird flu in the autumn after results from a series...

Police and Serbs Clash in Kosovo

Police and Serbs Clash in Kosovo

Serbian troops near Kosovo’s border were placed on high alert Friday, after clashes between police and Kosovo’s Serbian population injured...

China, South Korea Agree to Strengthen Talks on Chip Industry

China, South Korea Agree to Strengthen Talks on Chip Industry

China and South Korea have agreed to strengthen dialog and cooperation on semiconductor industry supply chains, amid broader global concerns...

Turkey’s Presidential Candidates Eye Nationalist Support to Win

Turkey’s Presidential Candidates Eye Nationalist Support to Win

Ahead of Turkey’s presidential runoff election on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main contender Kemal Kilicdaroglu are...