Ukraine’s eastern metropolis of Kharkiv will build the country’s first fully underground school to shield pupils from Russia’s frequent bomb and missile attacks, the city’s mayor said. Such a shelter will enable thousands of Kharkiv children to continue their safe face to face education even during...

   Two soldiers were injured following an Israeli air attack on Syrian armed forces posts in the vicinity of Syria’s eastern Deir al Zor province on Monday, Syrian state media said early on Tuesday, citing a military source. At about : p.m. on Oct., the Israeli enemy launched an air attack on...

   The European Parliament’s environment committee on Monday delayed a decision on whether to accept former Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra as the EU’s next climate change policy chief, after he sought their backing in a three hour hearing.The decision on Hoekstra, a centre right conservative,...

   Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way for COVID vaccines, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday. The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine...

   Support for an Australian constitutional referendum on Indigenous rights and recognition has edged higher, according to a poll published on Tuesday, although a majority of voters still intend to vote no when polls close in less than two weeks.The latest Guardian Essential poll shows the yes vote...

   The death toll from the collapse of a church roof during a Sunday Mass in northern Mexico has risen to , with around others injured, officials said on Monday, as local authorities began wrapping up search and rescue efforts.Five women, two men and three children were among those killed at the...

   The carcasses of river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.Low river levels during a severe drought have heated water in stretches to temperatures that are...

   A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than million by lying about his real estate empire.Attorney General Letitia James is seeking at...

   The European Parliament’s environment committee on Monday delayed its decision on whether to accept former Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra as the EU’s next head of climate change policy, the chair of the committee said. The coordinators just decided to suspend their final decision on the...

   Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday panned U.S. military aid to Ukraine, suggesting it was irrational, and stepped up criticism of the war effort as he urged Washington to devote more resources to helping Latin American countries.Lopez Obrador has long called on the United...

   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting with Guatemalan President elect Bernardo Arevalo on Monday, following Washington concerns that Guatemalan authorities have been trying to undermine the transfer of power to Arevalo.The United States has expressed grave concern over...

   The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs that have largely overrun its capital Port au Prince. More than just a simple vote, this is in fact an expression of solidarity with...

   Zimbabwean authorities were still searching on Monday for survivors trapped underground when a disused gold mine collapsed last week, as some relatives started to lose hope their loved ones could be saved.Accidents in disused mines are common in Zimbabwe, where artisanal or small scale miners defy...

   Robert Fico’s election win in Slovakia after he had campaigned to end military aid to Ukraine shows creeping discontent in Central Europe over the war with Russia, but analysts do not expect a major policy turn around by Bratislava or Warsaw.Leaders in the region, which was once under Soviet rule,...

   Slovakia’s pro Russian and anti liberal election winner Robert Fico was poised on Sunday to begin coalition talks to form a government likely to join Hungary in opposing the European Union’s military aid for Ukraine.The year old former prime minister’s SMER SSD party scored nearly of...

   A last ditch weekend spending agreement avoided a U.S. government shutdown but left pro Ukraine officials in Washington scrambling on Monday to determine the best path forward for securing approval for billions more assistance for Kyiv.Leaders in the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by...

   Following two years of criticism for its lack of diverse membership, the Golden Globes on Monday announced that it’s added new members, becoming one of the most ethnically diverse among major award shows.There are now journalists in total that serve as voting members.The expanded voting body...

   The United Nations Security Council on Monday voted to authorize a security mission to Haiti to help the Caribbean country fight heavily armed gangs that have overrun the capital.The Multinational Security Support MSS is an international security force backed but not operated by the United...

   Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi confirmed on Monday that he will stand for a third term in office in an election in December, as opposition parties complained that people trying to register support for other candidates had faced obstacles. Just as I responded to the call of the Egyptians...

   Pope Francis has appeared to leave open the possibility of priests blessing same sex couples, if they are limited, decided on a case by case basis and not confused with wedding ceremonies of heterosexuals.Francis made his opinion known in one answer to five questions from five conservative...

   A senior Ukrainian official called on Monday for a reassessment of Western anti aircraft systems being supplied to Ukraine, saying simpler and cheaper weapons could be more cost efficient in countering Russia’s Iranian made Shahed drones.The Shahed drones are deployed in Russian attacks virtually...

   Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in the capital Ankara in years.On Sunday morning, two attackers detonated a bomb near government...

   The World Health Organization WHO recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S, WHO chief Tedros...

   Serbia has withdrawn some troops stationed near the border with Kosovo, after having increased the numbers deployed there following a gun battle in northern Kosovo in which four people died, army commander General Milan Mojsilovic said on Monday.Tensions between Belgrade and Pristina soared since...

   Venezuela’s opposition elections commission on Monday said it would move forward with its Oct. date to elect a candidate to stand against the ruling party in next year’s presidential vote, after the national electoral council requested a delay.The National Electoral Council CNE last month...

   Some , migrants and asylum seekers arrived at the U.S. Mexico border daily last week, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday, amid record numbers of people moving north across the continent.Some, people are entering southern Mexico daily, Lopez Obrador said, and even...

   A United Nations team visiting Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan did not see any damage to civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, schools and housing or to cultural and religious sites, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.The team on Sunday visited the Karabakh capital known as...

   EU foreign ministers convened in Kyiv for their first ever meeting outside the bloc on Monday, broadcasting their support after a pro Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the U.S. Congress left Ukraine war aid out of its spending bill.Kyiv brushed off the wobbles on both sides of the...

   A former Nigerian oil minister appeared in court in London on Monday charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts.Diezani Alison Madueke was Nigeria’s minister for...

   The White House has been in touch with allies and partners about continued funding for Ukraine and those conversations will continue, White House spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre said on Monday.Congress passed a stopgap bill on Saturday that extended government funding for more than a month and...