South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Monday there might be a need to prohibit dog meat consumption amid debate over the controversial practice and growing awareness of animal rights.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook Greece’s largest island, Crete, on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several, authorities said.
Armed men killed at least 34 people in two villages in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the state government and two residents said.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that international recognition of the Taliban was not currently under consideration.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan as she left school in 2012, pleaded with the world on Friday not to compromise on the protection of Afghan women’s rights following the Taliban takeover.
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Israeli troops killed four Hamas militants in gun battles during raids on Sunday against one of the group’s cells in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli military spokesperson said.
A United Kingdom court has ruled against a challenge to a national law that allows disability-based late-term abortions.
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved $1 billion in funding for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system, but not before one Democrat labeled Israel an “apartheid regime” and her colleague fired back that such language teeters on anti-Semitism.
British police said on Thursday they had arrested a suspect in the hunt for the murderer of a teacher who was killed in a London park as she made a five-minute walk from her home to meet a friend at a pub.
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Boxing star Manny Pacquiao said on Sunday he will run for president of the Philippines next year, after railing against corruption in government and what he calls President Rodrigo Duterte’s cozy relationship with China.
The last Jew in Afghanistan who was smuggled out of the country could be set to move to the US following the Taliban‘s takeover.
A prominent statue of explorer Christopher Columbus will be removed from one of Mexico City’s principal avenues and be replaced with one of an indigenous Mexican woman, the capital’s mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on Sunday.
