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Ukrainian forces have lost between 10,000 and 13,000 soldiers in the war against Russia, according to a top advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenksyy. In a Thursday night interview, Mykhailo Podolyak cited chief military officials when he revealed information that was detailed as “classified” by a Ukrainian armed forces spokesman earlier …

Authorities defused a letter bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday and said several other similar devices were sent out to high-profile government officials and embassies. On Thursday, bomb diffusers safely dismantled the sixth such device that has appeared in recent weeks which is believed to be …

Residents of a high-rise apartment building in Xi’an, China were forced to hang out of their window sills and off of ledges to escape a raging structure fire. The footage, posted to Chinese social media site Weibo, shows the towering Weiyang area apartment building engulfed in flames as firefighters combat …

Chinese President Xi Jinping is showing a “rare display of weakness” as Beijing looks to roll back some of it’s more extreme COVID-19 policies, according to a former Tiananmen Square protest leader.  “It’s hard to predict the outcome of the protests now,” Zhou Fengsuo, a human rights activist and former …

A 72-year-old woman has been arrested after she allegedly switched off a hospital roommate’s ventilator – twice – because she was annoyed by the sound it made, authorities in Germany said Thursday. The woman was jailed on suspicion of attempted manslaughter following the incident at a hospital in the southwestern …

The parents of a premature baby testified in court Thursday that she was left severely disabled after nurse Lucy Letby allegedly tried to kill her. Letby, 32, who is on trial in the United Kingdom, is accused of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess …

At least two tourists were killed and five others seriously injured Thursday after a mini-bus collided with a truck in southern Egypt, authorities said. In a statement, the Egyptian authorities said one of the victims was a Chinese national and the other an Italian. The two victims, aged 27 and …

The European Commission has proposed a plan to fund rebuilding Ukraine using frozen Russian funds seized as part of sanctions.  “Russia must … pay financially for the devastation that it caused,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU’s executive said in a statement. “The damage suffered by Ukraine is …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the U.S. and NATO on Thursday of “direct” participation in its war in Ukraine but claimed Moscow was still open to talks.  In an annual news conference from Moscow, the foreign minister began his comments by defending Russia’s barrage of missile fire on civilian targets …

Pakistan on Thursday demanded neighboring Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers prevent terrorist attacks coming from their soil, a day after a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s southwest sent a wave of shock and anger across the country. The bombing killed four people and appeared to target police protecting polio workers in the area. …