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Five American citizens jailed for years in Iran were on their way home to the United States Monday after being released in exchange for billions of dollars in a controversial prisoner swap.

Russia fired nuclear-capable cruise missiles at “mock targets” in the seas separating it from the U.S. state of Alaska on Monday in what it said was an exercise to protect its northern shipping route in the Arctic.

A summit in Budapest dedicated to the demographic winter hitting the industrialized world has ended with appeals by government and faith leaders for people to have more children and pro-family lives.

The government of the Republic of Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, denied late Sunday that an alleged coup was underway against longtime President Denis Sassou.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the nation is under “unsustainable pressure” due to an influx of migrants fleeing war, persecution, and poverty as a dead newborn baby has been recovered.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey may part ways with the European Union, implying that the country is thinking about ending its bid to join the 27-nation bloc.

Iran began barring U.N. inspectors from nuclear sites over the weekend, days after the Biden administration freed up $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds in pursuit of a prisoner swap with Tehran.

The United Nations has launched a “misinformation war” against those questioning the U.N. narrative of a human-induced climate crisis and its COVID policies, including vaccinations, lockdowns, and mask-wearing.

The floods from storm Daniel that devastated Libya became the country’s largest natural catastrophe in years Thursday, with authorities fearing that more than 20,000 people have died.

The secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, has warned the world there will be no swift end to the Ukraine war. His comments came as Kyiv pushes on with its counteroffensive against Russia.

Efforts by Poland’s conservative governing party to make migration a campaign theme seemed to fail Sunday after revelations that diplomats provided 250,000 visas in exchange for bribes.

The government of democratically-ruled Taiwan weighed its options Friday after Communist-run China’s military surrounded the island in a threatening drill.

Britain, Germany, France, and the United States told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday that further action would be needed on Iran if the country did not fulfill legal obligations and clarify issues over nuclear material.

A Russian pilot tried to shoot down a British military spy plane after believing he had permission to fire, officials said Thursday.

On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, with the deposit rate reaching 4 percent, the highest in its two-decade history.

In a warning to Russia, the U.S.-led NATO alliance will conduct its largest military exercise since the Cold War involving tens of thousands of troops, officials confirmed Thursday.

Hope to find survivors was fading Thursday, nearly a week after a rare 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco, killing and injuring thousands of people, authorities said.

A constant stream of bodies was seen in eastern Libya early Thursday as the official death toll of the nation’s deadliest flooding rose to far above 5,000.

Scientists in China have successfully grown early-stage human kidneys inside pig embryos, in research that may one day contribute to the supply of much-needed human organs for transplant patients, Live Science reports.

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, has made clear he backs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a Wednesday summit with President Vladimir Putin. The two met to discuss military cooperation despite U.S. warnings and amid reports that Ukraine had attacked the home base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.