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World

1 Sep
An oil tanker ran aground Wednesday in Egypt's Suez Canal, briefly blocking the global waterway, an official said. The Singaporean-flagged Affinity V vessel had become wedged in a single-lane stretch of the...
1 Sep
An opening ceremony was held in eastern Russia on Wednesday for the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) military drills - a show of increasingly close defence ties between Moscow and Beijing. The Russian Defence Ministry...
31 Aug
Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91...
31 Aug
Seven Baltic Sea countries - Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Denmark - announced on Tuesday a seven-fold increase of wind power production by 2030 in northern Europe as a way to free the...
31 Aug
The last surviving member of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has been found dead in a remote area of the rainforest, Funai, Brazil's federal agency for Indigenous Affairs, announced over the weekend. The man...
31 Aug
NASA will try again to launch its new moon rocket on a test flight, after engine trouble halted the first countdown this week. Managers said they are changing fueling procedures to deal with the issue. The 322-...
31 Aug
The White House said it is taking new actions to combat the monkeypox (MPV) outbreak and protect individuals most at risk of contracting the virus by providing additional vaccines to states and cities holding...
31 Aug
Relatives of some of the more than 100,000 victims of enforced disappearance in Mexico demanded that laws be enforced to enable more searches to be conducted. On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced...
31 Aug
Venezuelan oil minister Tareck El Aissami accused former oil minister and president of the state oiling company PDVSA, Rafael Ramírez, of corruption and embezzlement. The minister said he handed evidence...
31 Aug
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader died on Tuesday. Australia's treasurer has paid tribute to describing the former Soviet leader as “one of the world's most significant leaders. When the...

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