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Officials say a powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in Pakistan’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, killing dozens of people.

Hong Kong’s high court has rejected a mainland China-backed government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong. It became the unofficial anthem after the 2019 pro-democracy protests and ensuing crackdown.

Residents in southern Thailand were mourning Sunday after authorities said at least nine people, including three children, were killed in a blast at a market’s illegal fireworks warehouse.

Pope Francis appealed Sunday for a resumption of the grain deal as African leaders left two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where they urged him to continue the agreement amid rising food prices and food shortages.

Amid heavy fighting against invading Russian troops, Ukraine has moved its official Christmas Day state holiday from January 7 to December 25 as part of Kyiv’s efforts to distance itself from Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church. The symbolic move came hours before the war escalated, with Russian mercenary forces fighting in Ukraine reportedly moving towards the Polish border.

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress Wednesday will allow courts to try accused gang members in mass trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs.

The U.S. is set to announce $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, two U.S. officials said Friday. It would be the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles under a new policy intended to speed up military aid to help Taiwan counter China.

Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.

People will get to see the first on Tuesday evening, 1 August, as the full moon rises in the southeast from a mere 222,159 miles (357,530km) away.

The army of Niger, a key partner in the West’s fight against Islamist groups in west Africa, said Thursday it would offer no resistance against an armed coup, raising concerns among Western leaders.

As of Thursday, twenty Eurozone countries have the highest interest rate ever recorded since the Euro was launched in October 2000, Sky News reports.

Ukraine’s military claimed Thursday it had success on one of the frontlines in its southeast battle against invading Russian troops, but Moscow played down the reported progress.

Questions were raised Wednesday about the safety of electric cars that the European Union wants to see on roads across the 27-nation bloc as a deadly fire raged across a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland.

Pakistani Christians remained concerned about the plight of a Catholic man after a court ruled that he could be charged with blasphemy under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism law.

Russia and China stepped up their cooperation with nuclear-armed autocratically North Korea on Wednesday as East-West relations rapidly worsened.

Ukraine has stepped up its counteroffensive against invading Russian troops, with several sources confirming Ukrainian advances in the south and east of the country.

American F-35 fighter jets arrived in the Middle East to beef up deterrence against Iran amid a string of ship seizures in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pentagon officials are again imploring Russian aircraft to stay away from U.S. drones after one was severely damaged on Sunday in Syria.

Russian legislators have voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted from 27 to 30, making more of them liable to serve in the army as the nation struggles with its ongoing invasion in Ukraine.

Tragedies struck several nations as a European heatwave was blamed for violent storms and wildfires in Greece as well as in Sicily, Italy, Algeria, and Tunisia, killing several people.