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Suspected Islamic gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest in northwest Nigeria, his church said after several other abductions and deadly attacks.

Kyiv says Ukraine’s counter-offensive has already liberated four villages from Russian occupation, but the advance is overshadowed by devastating flooding in the southern Kherson region. Rescue and relocation efforts continue for civilians driven from their homes by the flooding from the breach of the Kakhovka dam last week.

Indicating the end of a 30-year trend toward reducing stockpiles of nuclear warheads, a new report shows that China took the lead among several countries which actively expanded their arsenals in the last year, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s flamboyant media mogul and politician who led the country three times as prime minister has died aged 86 after suffering from blood cancer, officials confirmed.

The United States is imposing sanctions on a network of individuals and entities from Iran and China for supporting Iran’s missile and military programs.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a “global digital health certification network” backed by the European Union, but critics fear it will restrict the freedoms of billions of people.

“There is nothing wrong with the agreement (with the West), but the infrastructure of our nuclear industry should not be touched,” he said, adding that Tehran should continue working with The International Atomic Energy Agency under the framework of safeguards.

The former leader of Scotland’s ruling, Nicola Sturgeon, said Sunday her arrest was “both a shock and deeply distressing” and that she is “innocent of any wrongdoing.”

The founder of the website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has lost his latest attempt to fight extradition from Britain to the United States, where he is wanted on spying charges. However, he will renew his appeal next week, representatives said.

Kyiv says Russia has unleashed new air strikes on Ukraine overnight, killing at least one person in a combined assault of cruise missiles and attack drones. Friday’s confirmed attacks come as Ukrainian troops reportedly target Russian forces in the east and south of the war-torn nation. The fighting overshadowed ongoing evacuations of people from Ukraine’s southern areas, where officials say at least five people were killed in flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

The United Nations has reported that insufficient aid has reached parts of Myanmar affected by the massive Cyclone Mocha slammed into the western state of Rakhine last month, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Dealing with the aftermath of the cyclone is especially difficult for Christians who are already struggling under violent persecution by Myanmar’s military government.

A woman who served 20 years behind bars in Australia after wrongfully being convicted for killing her four children has been pardoned.

France’s parliament observed a moment of silence, and the nation’s president expressed “shock” after a man armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults near a famous lake in the French Alps on Thursday.

Nearly 40 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s air defense zone (ADIZ) in about six hours, the island’s defense ministry said Thursday.

The president of war-torn Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has visited his country’s southern Kherson region hit by floods after Tuesday’s breach of a massive dam reportedly killed at least five people and impacted thousands. Zelensky’s visit came amid concerns that landmines dislodged by flooding could harm residents, and Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of shelling rescue workers.

China reached a secret agreement with Cuba to open a spy base on the island, in Beijing’s latest display of disrespect to the Biden administration, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with the highly classified intelligence.

ermany is set to host NATO’s largest air force deployment over Europe in the alliance’s history, officials said on Wednesday.

Three years after the signing of the Abraham Accords, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on a mission to steady Washington’s relationship with Riyadh after Biden’s insulting 2021 election statements, ongoing oil disagreements, and disputes on Iran policy.