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MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - At least 16 people died and another three were hospitalised after a lorry collided with a stationary minibus in Russia's Ulyanovsk region on Sunday, local law enforcement said."According to preliminary data, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle did not slow down in good time and hit a stationary minibus," the Ulyanovsk…

Last month a UN report found new evidence that Russia had committed war crimes in Ukraine with deliberate killings and widespread use of torture. But they have yet to examine the intentional destruction of cultural property, which also is a war crime. Ukraine accuses Russian forces of targeting churches, libraries, and looting the country's most…

Eating a wild mushroom called fausse morille géant caused 14 people in the Alps to develop fatal motor neurone disease, scientists have found.The mystery of why 14 people from Savoie, aged 39 to 75, developed the muscle-wasting disease in the 1990s to early 2000s was solved after investigators called in University of Oregon neurotoxicology…

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Saturday remembered the atomic bombing 77 years ago as officials, including the head of the United Nations, warned against nuclear weapons buildup and as fears grow of another such attack amid Russia’s war on Ukraine.“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety — only death and destruction,” said U.N.…

India-China relations are going through an “extremely difficult phase” because of Beijing’s actions on the border and it will be difficult to have an Asian century if the two countries don’t come together, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday.Jaishankar also defended India’s decision to purchase Russian oil and the country’s…

Russians threatening Zaporizhzhia are "special targets"G7 nations call on Moscow to withdraw troops from plantFear of nuclear catastrophe unless fighting stopsRussia warns it may cut bilateral ties with United StatesMore grain ships depart UkraineKYIV, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who shoot at Europe's largest nuclear…

Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady and humanitarian who championed mental health care, provided constant political counsel to her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, and modeled graceful longevity for the nation, died Sunday at her home in Plains, Georgia, according to the Carter Center.Carter was 96. She had entered hospice care in her…

DIGITAL HEALTH: French residents will be able to store their physical Carte Vitale card on their smartphone Residents across France will soon be able to download and store a digital version of their Carte Vitale health insurance card on their Apple or Android smartphone using the ApCV app currently being piloted in 10 French departments. News…

President Volodymyr Zelensky has held a special meeting to consider the issue of compensation for damage and losses caused to Ukraine by Russia’s military aggression. The relevant report was published on the president’s website, Ukrinform reports. Zelensky at the meeting noted that the issue of compensation for…

A suspect is now in custody without incident after a standoff in Tuftonboro Tuesday. A section of Route 171 was temporarily closed after a man fired a gun at a sheriff's deputy, sources told WMUR.Sources said that just after 11 a.m. Tuesday, a Carroll County sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle that had left Carroll County Superior…