Thursday is the United Nations' International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.

Russia and the West have traded blame over mysterious leaks found on the undersea gas pipelines

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The 0.6% forecast for next year signals a considerable worsening in the outlook compared with the previous goal of 2.4%

More than 1,000 Hungarians protested against a change in abortion rules that took effect earlier this month

'Sham' referenda were held in four regions of southern and eastern Ukraine, which Moscow is now poised to annex

Meteorologists are already warning of impending dangerous storm surges and catastrophic flooding

Prosecutors say the suspect kept a Yazidi slave at her home after fleeing to join the so-called Islamic State group.

Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Wednesday.

Left-wing groups have accused the government of exploiting the incident to justify the presence of police at universities.

At least one person died on Wednesday in the eastern Ukrainian town of Mykolaivka after a Russian attack hit a school used by residents as a shelter.

The attacks appear to be in response to the ongoing protests in Iran over Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by Tehran's morality police.

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In Argentina and the United States, dozens of people have gathered to show their support for Iranian women.

Meloni's Brothers of Italy party states that is is against marriage equality, gay parents adopting children, and surrogate pregnancies.

NGOs say "unorthodox" action is needed to end the "vicious circle" for asylum seekers.

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Latvia has hosted a military training day with High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) flown in for the occasion from Germany.

The European Union has also vowed to retaliate for any attack on Europe's energy networks.

Russia fired a salvo of missiles at Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, overnight, hitting a railroad yard and knocking out power to more than 18,000 homes.

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Typhoon Noru hit Vietnam's central coast early Wednesday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain.

The central bank warned of a "material risk to UK financial stability” if market dysfunction continued.

Long queues build up at the Vishnevka border crossing from Russia to Kazakhstan as thousands continue to flee a possible call-up for the war in Ukraine.

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Activists in Italy are concerned about what far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni’s election as the new prime minister could mean for abortion rights in the country.

Orlen said the blaze broke out in one of the furnaces before firefighters extinguished it.

Rescuers are looking for victims who fell into a hole on a Guatemalan highway

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Hundreds of people marched peacefully through central Tokyo, demonstrating their opposition to the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Moscow could officially annex the regions - around 15 per cent of Ukraine - within days.

Sir Keir Starmer's speech to Labour's annual conference comes as an opinion poll gives the opposition its largest lead over the Conservatives in two decades.

Thailand resumes its vegetarian body piercing festival after a hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic.

The pipeline carrying gas from the Norwegian shelf is central to Poland's plan to diversify away from Russian supplies that began years before the invasion of Ukraine.

Scottish fishermen and ecologists are calling for actions to save the country's dwindling salmon population.

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Russia would be annexing at least 90,000 square km - an area around the size of Hungary or Portugal.

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Two women are believed to have opened fire on Turkish police before detonating explosive devices.

It comes after Estonia's neighbour Russia called up reservists last week to boost numbers fighting in Ukraine.

Edward Fitzalan-Howard's lawyer reportedly argued he needed his licence to organise King Charles III's coronation.

A lavish and rare state funeral was held on Tuesday for assassinated ex-PM Shinzo Abe. It's divided public opinion in Japan.

NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos in a test to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.

Satellite images have shown huge queues at the Russia-Georgia border

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From X-Wife to Wolf Manhattan: João Vieira celebrates 20 years in the music industry

Sheep trotted along London Bridge this weekend, as the Freemen of London practised their ancient right to take the animals into the heart of the UK capital.

The UK pound tumbled on Monday while the cost of borrowing soared to a higher level than that in Greece or Italy, the eurozone's most indebted members.

The Swiss voted by an extremely narrow margin in a referendum on Sunday to raise the retirement age for women from 64 to 65.

Russian prisons are being found in areas recaptured by the Ukrainian army, such as the village of Shevchenkove in the Kharkiv region.