International

Voting began on Sunday in Japan’s snap Lower House election, widely viewed as a referendum on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s leadership, as voters choose between her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)–led government and a united opposition…
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Veteran politician Ramesh Chandra Sen, a senior leader of ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League, died in custody at Dinajpur District Jail on Saturday, officials and local media confirmed. Sen’s death, just…
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Dozens of relatives and supporters of Venezuelan opposition figures, human rights defenders and others detained for their political activities demonstrated Saturday outside the notorious Helicoide prison in Caracas, urging the government to…
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Italian police on Saturday used tear gas and water cannons to disperse dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and attempted to reach a highway near a Winter Olympics venue in Milan. The brief confrontation followed a largely peaceful…
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Greek authorities on Saturday detained 313 people following violent clashes near the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where riot police were attacked with more than 100 Molotov cocktails in the early hours of the morning. According to…
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The French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office on Saturday confirmed it has opened a preliminary investigation into former Culture Minister Jack Lang and his daughter, Caroline Lang, on suspicion of “aggravated tax fraud laundering,”…
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A group of climate activists on Friday filed a new lawsuit against the Swedish state, accusing it of failing to take sufficient action to address climate change, a year after the country’s Supreme Court dismissed a similar case. The group,…
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US President Donald Trump on Friday deleted a social media post that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as jungle primates, following widespread condemnation from both Republicans and Democrats. The…
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A worshipper at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad, where dozens of people were killed in a suicide bombing on Friday, has described an “extremely powerful” explosion that tore through the building moments after prayers began. Muhammad Kazim,…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday confirmed that a woman in northern Bangladesh died in January after contracting the deadly Nipah virus. Bangladesh, which reports Nipah cases almost every year, recorded the fatality shortly…
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