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Countries fail to reach agreement in UN plastic talks

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution have failed to reach agreement, with more than 100 nations wanting ...

Crowd crush at Guinea football match causes casualties, prime minister says

A crowd crush at a football match in Guinea has caused multiple casualties, the country’s prime minister has confirmed, with ...

Putin approves record defense spending – a third of Russia’s budget

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a staggering third of the government’s total spending ...

Death toll rises to 130 in northwest Pakistan sectarian violence, officials say

Sectarian violence has killed at least 130 people and wounded 200 others in Pakistan’s northwest in the last 10 days, ...

Georgia is being rocked by days of violent protests. Here’s what you need to know

Days of protests have rocked Georgia following the government’s controversial decision to delay the former Soviet country’s bid to join ...

Australia’s biggest cocaine bust seized from broken down boat at sea

Australian police seized the country’s largest haul of cocaine aboard a fishing boat that had broken down near the coast ...

Bear attacks worker, ransacks meat section in Japan supermarket rampage

A bear that ran amok in a supermarket in northern Japan has been caught two days after it attacked a ...

Oxford’s word of the year is a modern condition familiar to most of us

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has ...

‘My memories ripped apart.’ Lebanon’s displaced take stock of their losses amid delicate truce

Like tens of thousands of Lebanon’s displaced, Hussein Mallah headed to the southern suburbs of Beirut at the break of ...

What’s happening in Syria? A simple guide

Syria’s civil war is back in the spotlight after a new rebel coalition launched a surprise attack, sweeping into the ...