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WorldThe United Nations headquarters.Tags: Print EditionUN: A very high number of Heads of State and government -- 157 -- say they plan to attend September’s first totally in-person gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General…

WorldTags: Print Edition  The IMF Chief made these straightforward remarks at the hybrid meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) held in Indonesia which kicked off on July 15.   The war in Ukraine has…

WorldTags: Print Edition  Condemning the attack on the Hindu community in Bangladesh the country’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that communal violence in a “secular country” is not acceptable under any…

WorldTags: Print EditionJAPAN: Bodyguards could have saved Shinzo Abe if they shielded him or removed him from the line of fire in the 2.5 seconds between a missed first shot and a second round of gunfire that fatally wounded him,…

WorldAn aerial view of a burned tract of Amazon jungle as it was cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Brazil.Tags: Print EditionBRAZIL: The Brazilian Amazon lost about 18 trees per second in 2021 as deforestation in the…

WorldActivists promoting human rights for North Korea release balloons carrying leaflets condemning the North’s regime in Paju, a South Korean city near the border with the North.Tags: Print EditionKOREA: North Korea has long…

WorldUkraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska who is in Washington at the invitation of the U.S. First Lady Jill Biden met U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.Tags: Print EditionRUSSIA, UKRAINE: Russian Defence Minister Sergei…

WorldPeople fill up water bottles from a fountain to quench their thirst in the Piazza di Spagna in the center of Rome.Tags: Print EditionSPAIN,PORTUGAL: The heat wave impacting Spain for several consecutive days has killed over 1,000…

WorldIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali KhameneiTags: Print EditionIRAN: Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…

WorldThe Marburg virus is transmitted to humans from fruit bats.Tags: Print EditionGHANA: Cases of the fatal Ebola-like Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) have been detected in Ghana, authorities confirmed over the weekend as the World Health…