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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Swiss President Alain Berset, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte attend an international summit on food security 'Grain from Ukraine', amid Russia's ongoing attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 25,... Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreKYIV, Nov 25…

An orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country returned home after being reunited with relatives in Belarus on his 18th birthday Sunday.Bohdan Yermokhin was pictured embracing family members in Minsk in photographs shared on social media by Russia’s…

Flash flooding at Death Valley national park closed all roads into the park, buried cars and stranded about 1,000 people on Friday.A deluge brought “nearly an entire year’s worth of rain in one morning” into the famously hot and dry park in the California desert. At least 1.7in (4.3cm) of rain fell in the Furnace Creek area; the park’s average…

Russia has likely tried to deploy “deeply controversial, indiscriminate” anti-personnel mines as Moscow ramps up its assaults on Ukraine, according to the U.K.’s defense ministry.   The use of PFM-1 and PFM-1S mines in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and elsewhere may cause mass casualties, a Monday intelligence update from the…

It was the beginning and end of a long journey as Otago Polytechnic welcomed back students from Japan’s International College of Technology yesterday. The 10 students were welcomed with a mihi on to the Dunedin campus, where they will study until next February while living with local host families. Programme co-ordinator Nathan Dunbar, an…

People-smugglers have dropped their prices and are cramming more people than ever before into already overloaded, flimsy boats, the Guardian has learned.This week 696 asylum seekers crossed the Channel from France to the UK in one day, the Ministry of Defence said.The increased numbers arriving in more overcrowded boats with cheaper crossing…

When Australia's Madison de Rozario won the women's T53/54 marathon at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, there were only two athletes on the podium.It was the same when Jess Gallagher and pilot Caitlin Ward won the women's tandem B track cycling sprint finals.Due to the small number of competitors in those events, no bronze medal was…

So, you’re ready to return to Westeros, but you need to get your bearings.  Don’t fear, we’re here to help. The “Game of Thrones” spinoff series, “House of the Dragon,” premieres Sunday, Aug. 21 at 9 p.m. on HBO and HBO Max. Set around 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” it follows the Targaryen family…

At the drinking fountain outside Berlin's busy Gesundbrunnen shopping arcade in the Mitte district, passersby stop to refill empty plastic bottles, splash their faces and soak handkerchiefs in the blistering afternoon heat. On his way into the sweltering hot subway station Uwe, a 55-year-old Berliner with a vermillion-flushed face, leans in for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans are questioning President Biden's request for Congress to approve nearly $12 billion in additional aid to Ukraine this month over concerns the timing is meant to benefit Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections. GOP lawmakers worry the White House is pushing the aid package…