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Florida school shooter spared death penalty, gets life in prison

Afghans living in a makeshift refugee camp in the United Arab Emirates staged demonstrations this week protesting the uncertainty of their status

Trump planned 2020 victory speech 'no matter what': Capitol riot probe

Zelensky seeks legal mechanism to punish all Russian 'murderers'

A cardinal at the centre of a Vatican corruption trial asked the city-state's police in 2020 not to disclose evidence that a woman who was working for him had embezzled money for personal use that was supposed to pay ransom for a kidnapped nun, a police officer told a court on Thursday.

Neanderthals, humans co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: study

US and S. Arabia clash in public over oil cut, Russia

The head of Ukraine's state nuclear energy firm decried as "fake news" on Thursday Moscow's assertions that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant would require Russian fuel.

A leading Lebanese politician who is sanctioned by the United States said on Thursday he played a behind-the-scenes role in U.S.-brokered talks to delineate Lebanon's maritime boundary with Israel by liaising with Hezbollah.

At IMF, UK gets lecture on having 'coherent' fiscal policy

Kenya denies defaulting on China railway debt

'Great sadness' for artists after French venue ransacked in Burkina coup

Afghan girls take university exams two weeks after classroom attack

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi called nationwide demonstrations a "policy of destabilization" by the West after protests continued in 19 Iranian cities on Wednesday

Italy's new rightist coalition got off to an inauspicious start on Thursday when it split over the election of the Senate speaker, who clinched the post despite a revolt by Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.

Ukraine could extradite Russians to ICC: prosecutor

India scrapped on Thursday a rule granting voting rights to new residents of its Jammu and Kashmir region after widespread anger among political parties, who labelled it a bid to change the demographics of the country's only Muslim-majority region.

Italy parliament in rocky step towards new government

According to local media reports, the girl's family members alleged negligence saying that medical malpractice led to the deaths.

Beijing authorities removed rare banners of political protest from an overpass in the Chinese capital, according to images circulated widely on social media on Thursday, just days before the start of a twice-in-a-decade Communist Party congress.

The girl was "found her in the sugarcane field with grievous injuries on the neck," the police said.

France orders more strikers back to work as fuel shortages bite

The wheel was later found in a nearby vineyard close to the airport, and no injuries were reported.

Argentines facing an inflation rate set to top 100% this year are grappling to survive, turning to recycling from garbage dumps or lining up to trade their belongings in barter clubs.

Six months ago, Jose Moreno found himself without a roof over his head.

The Vietnamese national had made more than NT$3 million ($94,035) by the time her studio was shut down, according to reports.

The man and one of his friends have been arrested over the fatal stabbing, according to reports.

An Indian Supreme Court panel said on Thursday it was divided over a ban on hijabs in schools, and referred the matter to the chief justice, effectively leaving in place a state's ruling against the scarves worn by women that has sparked uproar.

Seven people were killed during protests in Kurdish regions of Iran overnight, a rights group said, as authorities pursued a deadly crackdown on nationwide demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of morality police.