The French leader suggests building a broader political community of democratic states around the European Union. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has said it will take “decades” for a candidate like Ukraine to join the
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The Syrian president holds talks with Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Raisi on further developing bilateral relations. Tehran, Iran – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has held meetings with Iran’s supreme leader and the
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John Lee has been named Hong Kong’s new leader, after a closed voting process in which he was the sole candidate. His appointment is being widely seen as a move by the
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The latest launch is the 15th missile firing this year, including Pyongyang’s first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017. North Korea fired a ballistic missile three days before the inauguration
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The move is one of the harshest restrictions imposed on Afghanistan’s women since the Taliban seized power last year. Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered the country’s women to cover their faces in
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The US provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink the Moskva, Russia’s flagship Black Sea missile cruiser, several US media report. Unnamed officials said Ukraine had asked the US about a ship sailing
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Twenty years ago, the first in the director’s web-slinger trilogy set the course for the modern superhero film – but none of its descendants have ever matched it, writes Kambole Campbell “With
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More than 4.7 million people in India – nearly 10 times higher than official records suggest – are thought to have died because of Covid-19, according to a new World Health Organization
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologised after his foreign minister said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”, Israel says. Mr Putin made the apology in a call with Israeli PM
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In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC’s Today programme, Bill Gates says conspiracy theories about him are “crazy” and that being shouted at in public is “awful”. He also told the BBC’s
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