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Cape Verde beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 at NRG Stadium in Houston on Friday to reach the 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 32 for the first time, completing an unbeaten Group H
Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's northern coast on Wednesday, killing at least 235 people in the country's worst seismic event in a century. Rescue teams work through collapsed buildings in La Guaira as the death toll climbs and Mexico, Chile, and
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the UK on Wednesday, where he will meet officials on his second known foreign trip since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly a year
According to the January results, the Russian budget showed a record deficit of 1,760 billion rubles (more than 25 billion US dollars). This follows from the statistics released the day before by
Ukraine has said it will send dozens of rescuers to Turkey after an earthquake that killed thousands in that country and neighboring Syria. Kiev will send “a combined search and rescue team
A fire has broken out in Latvia at a factory that produces drones for the Ukrainian army and NATO allies. Two dozen police cars, nine fire engines and five ambulances arrived at
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, opposed the participation of Russian athletes in the 2024 Olympics “while the war continues” in Ukraine, her office said on Tuesday. This indicates a change in
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump, released a Republican response to the president’s State of the Union address, accusing the president of focusing
US President Joe Biden assured Ukrainians that America would support their country “as long as it takes” in the face of continued Russian aggression, and warned other autocracies that betting against America
The State Department has approved a possible sale of long-range missiles, rockets and launchers to Poland in a deal worth up to $10 billion, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. Poland is actively modernizing
Nearly fifty people, accused of wanting to overthrow the executive, appear from Monday for four months in Hong Kong. This is the largest trial of pro-democracy activists in this special administrative region
As tension has escalated on the peninsula, North Korea announced on Tuesday that it would expand and intensify its military exercises “in order to strictly perfect the preparation for war”. Major preparations
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