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World

Tense France goes to polls as far-right scents power

Voting got underway in France’s overseas territories on Saturday in high-stakes snap parliamentary elections, which could change the country’s trajectory

Fighting for third day in north Gaza as thousands displaced

Explosions, air strikes and gunfire rattled northern Gaza on Saturday, the third day of an Israeli military operation that has

Fourteen killed in Nigeria after truck driver ‘lost control’

Fourteen people were killed when a truck ploughed into Muslim worshippers outside the northern Nigerian city of Kano, Nigeria’s road

Putin says Russia should produce previously banned missiles

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia should start producing short and intermediate-range missiles that were previously banned under

Ukraine drone attack kills 5 in Russian border village

A Ukrainian drone attack on a house in a Russian border village killed five people, including two children, the regional

World ‘failing’ to meet development goals: UN chief

War and funding shortfalls have hampered progress toward the United Nations’ flagship development goals which include action to combat climate