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Israel’s foreign minister on Thursday made the first public visit to Ukraine by a senior Israeli official since Russia’s invasion last year, pledging financial aid to the war-battered country but giving no indication that Israel is ready to provide weapons to Ukraine. At a joint press conference with his Ukrainian …

Another high-ranking Russia official has turned up dead after being found under the window of her high rise apartment building, according to Russian reports Thursday. The body of 58-year-old Marina Yankina, head of the financial support department of the Western Military District in St. Petersburg, was reportedly found Wednesday in …

The United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syrian crisis said Thursday that the country’s death toll from last week’s deadly earthquake is likely to rise further as teams scramble to remove rubble in hard-hit areas. In an interview with The Associated Press, Muhannad Hadi defended the U.N.’s response to …

A powerful explosion inside a moving passenger train killed at least one person and wounded eight others in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, police and a railway spokesman said. District Police Chief Mian Mahboob said the explosion happened in Chichawatni, a district in the eastern Punjab province. He said officers were …

China and Iran have urged mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in a joint statement Thursday issued at the close of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which the two sides affirmed close economic and political ties and …

The People’s Republic of China issued a condemnation of the United States over the recent spycraft shot down in U.S. airspace.  The National People’s Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday reiterated the country’s assertion that the route of a Chinese aircraft into U.S. territory was unintentional. CHINA CALLS US ‘TRIGGER-HAPPY’ …

Authorities have announced two 15-year-olds have been charged in the fatal stabbing of Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender TikTok personality whose death has made international headlines. Cheshire police in the United Kingdom announced the two teenagers, a boy and a girl, on Wednesday would be charged with Ghey’s murder. Ghey was …

South Korea called North Korea “our enemy” for the first time in six years in its biennial defense document published on Thursday. The Associated Press reported the document said, “North Korea doesn’t give up its nukes and is persistently posing military threats to us, so the North Korean government and …

Police in Switzerland’s capital evacuated Parliament and related offices Tuesday after a man in a bulletproof vest was arrested near one of its entrances and found to be bearing explosives. Berne police said in a statement that in the early afternoon, “federal security staffers noticed a man at the southern …

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said he has “full confidence” that the Japanese government will take the necessary steps to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people. Sexual minorities have been campaigning for the government to adopt an anti-discrimination law after an aide to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told …