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Saudi crown prince visits Jordan in thaw of ties, raising hope for new investmentsSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday amid a thaw in relations after years of tension due to divergent...Biden says decision on gas tax holiday may come this weekU.S. President Joe Biden said Monday that he will decide by the end of the week whether to order a holiday on the federal gasoline...France reshaped: Election emboldens Le Pen, undercuts MacronFrance faced an ecstatic Marine Le Pen on Monday after her party’s far-right candidates sent shockwaves through the political establishment and helped deny President Emmanuel...Saudi crown prince visits Egypt ahead of Biden's Mideast tripSaudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Cairo on Monday on the first leg of a Middle East tour that comes ahead of...Israel to dissolve parliament, call 5th election in 3 yearsIsrael’s weakened coalition government decided Monday to dissolve parliament and call a new election, the country's fifth in three years. The vote, expected this fall,...East African leaders send regional force to eastern CongoEast Africa’s leaders have responded to the threat of war between Rwanda and Congo by instructing a new regional force to deploy in eastern Congo...Airlines seek govt support for net-zero pledgeWorld airlines on Monday called on governments to support the industry's goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.The plea at a meeting of the International...Elon Musk's transgender daughter seeks name change to sever ties with fatherElon Musk's transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because "I no longer live...China's mass testing program building a waste mountainHazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and...Sri Lanka troops open fire to contain fuel riotsSri Lanka's military opened fire to contain rioting at a fuel station, officials said Sunday as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across...N Korea deploys national medical teams to battle intestinal epidemicNorth Korea has dispatched medical crews and epidemiological investigators to a province battling the outbreak of an intestinal disease, state media reported on Sunday. At...After EU blessing, Ukraine vows to prevail as it battles Russian assaultsWith a blessing for its EU ambitions and a pledge of unwavering support from Britain, Ukraine vowed on Saturday to prevail against Moscow as it...Big crowds take to London streets to protest soaring costsThousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in a protest over the soaring cost of living in Britain. Huge crowds flooded into the...Millions stranded as floods ravage parts of Bangladesh, IndiaMonsoon rains caused widespread flooding in northeastern Bangladesh and India, stranding nearly 6 million people and killing at least 19 people in Bangladesh, authorities said...Australia tells Solomons security needs should be met by Pacific region, not ChinaAustralian Foreign Minister Penny Wong visited a riot-hit community in the Solomon Islands on Friday to highlight the capabilities of Australian police, amid regional concern...Trump lashes out at Jan 6 committee as he teases 2024 runMaking his first public appearance since the House committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection began its hearings laying bare his desperate attempts to subvert democracy...Russia again cuts natural gas exports to European countriesRussia reduced natural gas to Europe again Friday, including cutting flows by half to Italy and Slovakia and completely to France, as countries have worked...Students sue for review, changes after Michigan school shootingAbout 20 students at a Michigan high school where four students were killed in a mass shooting say their constitutional rights to safety and education...China launches high-tech aircraft carrier in naval milestoneBeijing launched a new-generation aircraft carrier Friday, the first such ship to be both designed and built in China, in a milestone as it seeks...North Korea says hundreds of families ill with intestinal diseaseNorth Korea said Friday that hundreds of families have fallen ill with an unidentified intestinal disease, heaping pressure on a crumbling healthcare system already strained...Australian PM to attend NATO summitAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday said he would attend "an important" NATO meeting in Madrid at the end of the month as the...Fauci tests positive for COVID-19, has 'mild symptoms'Dr Anthony Fauci, the face of America's pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus.The 81-year-old Fauci, who is fully...Suspects confess to killing British journalist and Brazilian guide: reportTwo suspects have confessed to killing and dismembering British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, TV Globo reported on Wednesday, citing police sources,...Saudi Arabia seizes rainbow toys in 'homosexuality' crackdownSaudi officials are seizing rainbow-colored toys and articles of clothing from shops in the capital as part of a crackdown on homosexuality, state media reported....Russians control 80% of key Ukraine city, cut escape routesRussian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievier odonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but...Victim of pandemic, Hong Kong floating restaurant towed awayA landmark floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine and seafood to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and millions of other diners was towed from the...Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell'As 10-meter-high mounds of sunflower meal smolder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling...In hottest city on Earth, mothers bear brunt of climate changeHeavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on...UK moves to rewrite Brexit rules for Northern Ireland; EU threatens legal actionBritain’s government on Monday proposed new legislation that would unilaterally change post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, despite opposition from some UK lawmakers and EU...Canadian PM Trudeau tests positive for COVID a second timeCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time and just days after he met in person with U.S. President...Court refuses to halt UK deportation plan to Rwanda for migrantsA British government plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda is set to go ahead after an appeals court on Monday rejected arguments that the flights...Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prisonA man who plowed a rented van into dozens of people on a busy Toronto street in 2018, killing 11, was sentenced to life in...Police investigating killings of 12,000 Ukrainians in warThe lush green beauty of a pine forest and singing birds contrasted with the violent deaths of newly discovered victims of Russia's war in Ukraine,...Russia destroys bridge over Ukrainian river, cutting escape routeRussian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation...Canadian police probe possible bomb threat to parliamentCanadian police are investigating a possible risk to national security that forced parliament to lock down for several hours on Saturday after border agents warned...Brazil search finds backpack, clothes of indigenous expert missing with reporterSearch teams in Brazil's Amazon rainforest on Sunday said they had found clothing belonging to missing indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who was traveling with British...NATO chief: Turkey has "legitimate concerns" over terrorismNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday that Turkey has “legitimate concerns” over terrorism and other issues that need to be taken seriously.Turkey has accused Finland...Biden says he has 'not yet' decided on Saudi tripU.S. President Joe Biden said he had "not yet" decided if he will travel to Saudi Arabia, a week after he opened the door to...Rudy Giuliani faces ethics charges over Trump election roleRudy Giuliani, one of Donald Trump’s primary lawyers during the then-president's failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, must now answer to...Prince Charles blasts UK's Rwanda deportation plan: reportA British newspaper says Prince Charles has criticized the government's plan to start deporting some asylum-seekers to Rwanda, calling it “appalling." Citing unnamed sources, the...Malaysia agrees to abolish mandatory death penaltyMalaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offenses, the country's law minister...New restrictions on ships to protect whales coming soonFederal authorities spent the past few years analyzing rules for the shipping industry and are now close to releasing fresh guidelines to help protect a...Ukraine fears a long war might cause West to lose interestAs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds into its fourth month, officials in Kyiv have expressed fears that the specter of “war fatigue” could erode the...Shanghai faces unexpected round of COVID testing for most residentsChina's commercial hub of Shanghai faces an unexpected round of mass COVID-19 testing for most residents this weekend - just 10 days after a city-wide...Man charged with plotting murder of U.S. Supreme Court justiceA California man upset about mass shootings and the looming Supreme Court rulings on abortion and gun rights was charged Wednesday with attempting to murder...Biden sidelines Venezuela's pro-democracy leader from Americas summitA little more than two years ago, Juan Guaidó was showered with bipartisan applause when President Donald Trump during his state of the union speech...Iran expands nuclear work, switching off cameras amid IAEA censureIran has begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment and said on Wednesday it would switch off two of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's cameras, as...Thailand decriminalizes marijuana, but smoking discouragedThailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, like a dream come true for an aging generation of pot smokers who...Migrant caravan on the move in southern MexicoSeveral thousand migrants started walking before dawn through southern Mexico Tuesday, covering ground before the heat of the day and while authorities showed no signs...Swedish government survives no-confidence vote with help of former Kurdish fighterSweden's government survived a no-confidence vote on Tuesday with the help of a lawmaker whose demands for support for Kurds in Northern Syria could complicate...