President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, hours before he was supposed to resign, leaving the prime minister as acting president. The island nation is battling severe shortages of food and fuel, with many blaming Rajapaksa for t...

Thousands of Hungarians protested against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government on Wednesday, in the second day of anti-government rallies after lawmakers fast-tracked legislation sharply raising taxes for small firms.

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Officials say the war in Ukraine and EU sanctions on Russia have caused an "energy crisis".

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Authorities say the aircraft went down in the Aegean Sea while battling a forest fire on the island of Samos.

The 28-year-old was already serving a two-year sentence for reporting on opposition demonstrations in 2020.

President Biden takes part in wreath-laying ceremony at Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. In Bethlehem, rights group's billboards say Israel is "apartheid" ahead of Biden visit.

The US president wlll meet with Palestinian officials on Friday, and continue to Saudi Arabia on his first Middle East tour since taking office.

Lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party held their first round of voting on Wednesday, eliminating two candidates from the race to replace the outgoing prime minister.

The European Space Agency has officially terminated a joint European-Russian rover mission to Mars amid political tensions caused by the war in Ukraine.

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Protesters in the Sri Lanka's prime minister office as the crisis-hit country declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the island nation.

Authorities are still investigating the causes of death, two weeks after the tragedy.

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"It was apocalyptic," says the village's mayor, speaking of flames 30 metres high on a 600-metre front in the middle of the night.

The Dicastery for Bishops meets to evaluate proposed new bishops that are put forward by Vatican ambassadors.

An official French parliamentary report finds the interior minister was wrong to blame Liverpool fans for crowd disruption before the Champions League final in Paris in May.

Screens in Times Square display images just released by the James Webb Space Telescope, heralding a new era of astronomy.

Around two-thirds of refugees from Ukraine expect to stay in their host countries until hostilities subside and the security situation improves after Russia's invasion, a survey by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has found.

Flying with his father on a small plane over North Carolina, flight attendant Vincent Fraser had no other choice but to land on Highway 19 in Swain County when his engine started to die.

Police fire tear gas at protesters mobbing the Prime minister's residence in Colombo as crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country.

Military officials from the two countries are holding their first face-to-face meetings for months in Istanbul, to discuss a UN plan to export grain and ease global shortages.

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A presidential tweet that some saw as a “call to arms" and an “unhinged” meeting in the White House. Here are some of the takeaways from the seventh Capitol riots inquiry hearing.

Wildfires swept across Portugal's central region on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of locals. Spain and France have also witnessed fires amid a sweltering heatwave.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday morning, hours before he was due to step down. Now protesters are turning their anger on the prime minister.

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The Welsh parliament has passed a law bringing down the speed limit on all residential roads and busy streets to 20 mph (30 km/h). Not everyone is pleased.

An ad for a local trailer company in Krasnoyarsk has caused confusion online following controversial comments from Russian politicians about Alaska.

Maher al-Agal was reportedly killed in a strike near Syria's northern border with Turkey.

These are the politicians who gathered enough support from other Conservative MPs to get their names on the ballot.

People working outdoors in Madrid as temperatures are nearing 40 degrees Celsius.

Ukraine strikes Russian ammunitions depot, US and EU approve more funding for Kyiv, separatists open Moscow 'embassy'.

Hundreds of Sri Lankans continued to flock to the Sri Lankan presidential palace, marveling at the paintings inside and lounging on the beds piled high with pillows.

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Emergency services in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv were putting out fires and clearing rubble after a Russian strike. The strike hit two medical facilities and residential buildings.

Prosecutors and all other suspects have also not appealed, meaning last month's verdict is final.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the Russian president will meet with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts to partake in Syria peace talks.

Police say they have arrested a 31-year-old man, who reportedly took the powerful explosives out of a backpack.

Recently-crowned Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic welcomed by thousands of fans in native Belgrade, while the star said it is unlikely he will feature in this year's US Open as he continues to refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus.

People in Tokyo queue with flowers to pay their final respects to Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe at Zojoji Temple, where a private funeral is to be held.

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Many countries in the southern and western parts of the continent have already succumbed to exceedingly hot and dry weather, expected to last for about 10 days.

The incident deals a likely setback to Musk's aim of launching Starship to orbit this year.

NATO's Deputy Secretary-General told Euronews Romania that he thinks the Ukraine war will end on the battlefield even though he hopes that "conditions will be met for a political solution to be identified."

Russia's bombardment of Ukrainian towns and cities continued despite the Kremlin's announced pause in the assault, while concerns over energy scarcity continue to grow.

Ukrainians injured in the Donetsk region are being forced to move to other regions for medical treatment due to a shortage of doctors and medical facilities.

Shinzo Abe, 67, was gunned down at an election campaign rally on Friday by an unemployed man with a homemade firearm.

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