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GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday that further strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure could lead to a serious deterioration of the humanitarian …

ROME (Reuters) – A migrant rescue charity caught up in a diplomatic row between Italy and France last month said on Thursday it urgently needs donations to keep its ship …

By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday it was unlikely the Black Sea grain deal would be expanded in the near term …

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament on Thursday passed a sexual and reproductive health law that allows girls aged 16 and 17 to undergo abortions without parental consent and, in a …

By Farouq Suleiman and Amanda Ferguson LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) -National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the …

By Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu and Paresh Dave (Reuters) – ChatGPT, the new chatbot that is the talk of Silicon Valley, can spit out haikus, crack jokes in Italian and …

By Birsen Altayli, Ece Toksabay and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) – Six months from an election in which Turkey’s opposition has its best shot at unseating President Tayyip Erdogan in …

By Stephen Grey, Maurice Tamman and Maria Zholobova (Reuters) – The hundreds of Russian drones hovering ominously over the Ukrainian battlefield owe their existence to an elastic, sanctions-evading supply chain …

SEOUL (Reuters) -International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said on Thursday the IAEA would make an all-out effort to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme and preserve international non-proliferation, …

By Makini Brice and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a stopgap one-week funding bill, a move intended to give lawmakers more time …

PRAGUE (Reuters) -Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti submitted a bid for Kosovo to join the European Union on Thursday, launching a process that could take years, if not decades, and …

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia holds an election for a new parliament on Saturday. Opposition parties say the legislative chamber – introduced under reforms that concentrated power in the hands of …

By Angus McDowall and Tom Perry TUNIS (Reuters) – President Kais Saied has dramatically reshaped Tunisian politics in his favour since mid-2021, amassing near total power in what critics see …

HAVANA (Reuters) – A bloc of left-wing countries meeting in Havana on Wednesday closed ranks in support of the ousted former president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, amid protests and roadblocks …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Parliament president Roberta Metsola told EU leaders on Thursday she would lead reforms to prevent a repeat of a corruption scandal that has rocked the assembly. …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union countries will make another push to agree on a ninth package of sanctions against Moscow on Thursday after Poland and Lithuania blocked a deal over concerns …

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was called off as it was about to begin after flight controllers noticed …

(Reuters) -A major winter storm pounded the heart of the United States on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to the Northern Plains and spawning thunderstorms and destructive tornadoes …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it had received an apology from the Vatican over Pope Francis’ comments last month that Russian soldiers from some ethnic minority groups were …

By Nathan Layne NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) -Ten years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, residents of the Connecticut town where it took place marked Wednesday’s anniversary …

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents interdicted three narcotic smuggling events in two days, resulting in four arrests. On December 13, RGV agents working with …

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods, accused Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp not …