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(Reuters) – Russia on Sunday denied Ukrainian allegations that it had killed civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, describing footage and photographs of dead bodies as a “provocation” and …

By Stephen Farrell LVIV, Ukraine -A leading rights group said on Sunday it had documented “apparent war crimes” committed by Russian military forces against civilians in Ukraine. Human Rights Watch …

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO -Protesters in the Sri Lanka’s largest city Colombo held numerous small, peaceful demonstrations over a severe economic crisis on Sunday, defying a nationwide …

SACRAMENTO, CA – The Sacramento Police Department continues investigating a mass shooting downtown. At this point, police have confirmed 15 victims, including six dead. “9th St to 13th St is …

By Charlotte Greenfield and Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR – The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest opium producer. “As per the …

(Reuters) – The European Union on Sunday accused Russian troops of committing atrocities in the Kyiv region after the mayor of the town of Bucha said 300 residents had been …

SHANGHAI -Shanghai on Sunday ordered its 26 million residents to undergo two more rounds of tests for COVID-19 as public anger grows over how authorities in China’s most populous city …

(Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate what went wrong when the cockpit windshield of a Delta plane shattered mid-air during a flight on Thursday to Washington, D.C., from Salt …

By James Mackenzie ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine – Ukraine said on Saturday its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time …

(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Russian soldiers of deliberately mining areas in northern Ukraine as they withdraw or are pushed out by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine says its troops …

By Michel Rose PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the risk of a Brexit-style election upset in his only campaign rally before the first round of the presidential …

By Simon Gardner, Zohra Bensemra and Abdelaziz Boumzar BUCHA, Ukraine – Dead civilians still lay scattered over the streets of the Ukrainian country town of Bucha on Saturday, three days …

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Friday it was assisting Chinese investigators with the download of the cockpit voice recorder in Washington from an …

LVIV, Ukraine – Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and was a long-time contributor to Reuters, was killed while covering Russia’s invasion …

BALTIMORE, MD – A John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center surgeon was shot during an attempted carjacking in Baltimore Friday morning. Police said Dr. Madju Sunramanian, 38 was on his way …

WASHINGTON -The United States has repatriated to Algeria a man who was held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly two decades after being accused of conspiring with al Qaeda, the Department …

WASHINGTON – A Los Angeles court has found a California law mandating that publicly traded companies include people from underrepresented communities on their boards unconstitutional, ruling in favor of a …

By Philip Pullella VALLETTA -Pope Francis said on Saturday he was considering a trip to Kyiv and implicitly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine, saying a …

SANAA/ADEN – Yemenis welcomed a nationwide U.N.-brokered ceasefire due to come into effect on Saturday evening as a glimmer of hope in a country ravaged by a seven-year conflict that …

By James Mackenzie ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine – As Dmytro Kartavov and his family joined thousands of people trying to flee the bombed-out city of Mariupol, one additional obstacle awaited as Russian …

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO -Sri Lanka’s government imposed a weekend curfew on Saturday, even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to revoke a state of emergency introduced following …

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU -Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and inaugurated the Himalayan nation’s only railway link with its southern neighbour on Saturday …

By Philip Pullella VALLETTA – Pope Francis had to use an elevator to board a plane taking him to Malta on Saturday, with Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni saying it was …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said the move to remove him was an attempt at regime change backed by the United States. Khan is facing a …

By Brenda Goh and Engen Tham SHANGHAI -Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on …