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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc wants to open the door for Canada to become its first associate member, signaling a major deepening of ties.
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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc wants to open the door for Canada to become its first associate member, signaling a major deepening of ties.
A Seoul court on Wednesday ordered North Korea to pay 44.6 billion won ($32.5 million) in damages over its 2020 demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office, South Korean media reported, marking the first ruling in a lawsuit brought by South Korea against Pyongyang.

Dozens of artisanal miners have been killed after a series of adjoining mining shafts collapsed.

A European Union-backed court has convicted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci of four counts of war crimes during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia.
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Iran says El Gaia caught fire after hitting mines, but the US says the oil tanker was struck by a missile and then a drone.

The origin of the drone is currently unknown, but authorities say it likely entered Lithuania from neighbouring Belarus, an ally of Russia.

The Danish prime minister has accused Russia of "reckless" behaviour, while the Kremlin is yet to comment.

Dutch farmers started fires near highways on Tuesday, disrupting traffic as they protested against the government budget, while saboteurs also tied pipes to railway tracks ahead of the state opening of parliament.

The latest verdict brings to 22 the number of death sentences handed down in cases stemming from the 2024 uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule.

Protesting shepherds and farmers, joined by far-right groups, clashed with riot police in Romania Tuesday, leaving two dozen people hurt as they called for a ban on live sheep exports to be overturned…

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The Yemen militant group captured the islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish, new the chokepoint of Bab al-Mandab strait

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis launched a new attack on Saudi Arabia on Monday and Gulf Arab states postponed planned talks with Iran, raising concerns the Middle East conflict could spread further and threaten global oil supplies.

Former US CIA director David Petraeus was at a Ukrainian train station at the very moment a Russian drone struck a passenger train on Sunday, shortly after a diplomatic train carrying former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other foreign dignitaries had passed through.

Ships and helicopters are searching for those missing from the Virgo Transport 8 ship, which had encountered bad weather.

COTABATO, (Philippines): Three people were killed and 15 others wounded as gunfire erupted hours before polls were to open Monday (Sept 14) in a semi-autonomous Muslim region of the Philippines set to choose its first elected parliament.
4 people also seriously injured, according to Road Traffic Management Corporation | Anadolu
Turkish authorities have arrested at least 162 people in a weekend crackdown on the country's LGBTQ+ community. Ankara says police raids on gay bars and other venues are aimed at protecting family values.

US officials say Chinese entities supplied imagery but stop short of accusing Beijing of direct involvement

Iraq removes a military commander and opens investigations into the attack that came from an area bordering Iran.

The agreement was seen as a sign of diplomatic progress between the countries divided by the war.

Protesters in about 20 cities, including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, demand the banning of the Alternative for Germany.

Russian strikes have killed eight civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, according to local officials.
North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Saturday.

French investigators suspect sabotage was behind a train derailment in northwestern France that injured 44 people and left passengers in "a state of shock", prosecutors said on Saturday, after a massive…

Philippine Coast Guard personnel in protective suit unload body bags of victims of a ferry fire blaze at the port of Borac in Coron, Palawan province on September 12, 2026. The bodies of passengers

Rampant Yemeni fighters take control of island in narrow point of Bab al-Mandab strait, which Saudi is relying on for oil exports

Russia has for two weeks been carrying out almost constant attacks with faster jet-powered drones that have killed a number of Kyiv residents.

The West’s ‘eyes and ears’ in the West Bank targeted despite US pressure to curb attacks on Palestinians

Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case

Nigeria’s parliament is suspending official visits to South Africa indefinitely over anti-immigrant protests targeting Africans

Philippine rescuers recovered 30 bodies from a burned-out ferry on Friday, raising the death toll from the blaze to 35, authorities said.

A fire at a nursing home in Chile that had previously violated regulations has killed 16 elderly residents and left others hospitalized, authorities said Saturday.

A key oil pipeline system in Saudi Arabia was struck by projectiles on Thursday, according to two US officials familiar with the matter.

An industrial facility caught fire in Novy Urengoy, a gas-producing city in northern Russia, following a drone attack, regional Governor Dmitry Artyukhov said on Wednesday, in the first such attack on the country's natural gas hinterland.

Mokha's capture brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling a key international shipping route.

The IDF said that what remains of the Ali al-Taher ridge, beneath which was Hezbollah’s last and most significant line of defense in southern Lebanon, is “nothing more than a sandbox.”
Algeria's president had previously called the gulf country a 'midget state' that was interfering in North Africa

Iran launched fresh attacks against US targets in the Middle East on Wednesday in retaliation for American strikes on Iranian oil tankers, dragging the foes deeper into war.

Norway bade its final farewell to Harald V on Wednesday as crowds lined the streets and foreign royals and leaders converged on Oslo for the funeral of the long-serving king, who was remembered as a popular monarch with a down-to-earth touch.

A Russian drone strike on a shopping centre in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed two people and injured 20, four of them seriously, Regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
