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Stories about Snake Island stretch back millennia to the ancient Greeks’ mythological Trojan war.Russian forces have withdrawn from Snake Island in the Black Sea in a move Ukraine…

The new law is the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades and follows a spate of mass shootings in the US.US President Joe Biden has signed into law the most sweeping gun…

Russia’s war in Ukraine is preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world” and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger,…

Numerous countries have sent arms to Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24. Most recently, the United States agreed to supply Kyiv with advanced rocket-launch systems to try…

Twitter has announced a new plan to fight false claims in times of crisis, including war, health emergencies, and big natural disasters.Twitter has decided to launch a new policy…

Opinion polls point to Macron as the likely winner but with a much smaller margin than in 2017.Sunday’s second round of the French presidential election will determine who governs…

Several days of unrest in Sweden, sparked by a far-right group’s plan to burn copies of the Quran, wounded at least 40 people as police called for more resources to deal with the…

Khan became the first PM in Pakistan’s history to be sent packing through a vote of no confidence.Imran Khan’s term as prime minister of Pakistan ended on Sunday following days of…

Hungarians are set to go to the polls on April 3 that will see 199 MPs elected to the National Assembly for four-year terms. Under the Hungarian election system, 106 single-mandate…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said everything will be on the table for discussion with Russia as he renewed calls for talks to end the nearly one-month war, but added…