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A United Nations Commission of Rights experts warned Tuesday there is an “overwhelming risk” that atrocities and crimes against humanity will continue to occur in war-torn Ethiopia, despite last year’s ceasefire agreement between government forces and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, UN News reports.

Police in Thailand have detained a 14-year-old boy suspected of killing two people in a shooting at Bangkok’s luxurious Siam Paragon shopping mall, one of Asia’s most visited touristic spots.

Amid heightened tensions between the two countries over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US and Russia have each announced they will be holding nationwide emergency alert exercises on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, Newsweek reports.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has made clear his nation expects to start talks on joining the European Union as early as this year despite divisions within the EU about that issue. Zelensky made the announcement after a surprise EU foreign ministers meeting in Ukraine’s capital.

At least 10 people, including three children, died after a church roof collapsed during a Baptism service in northeast Mexico, officials confirmed Monday.

A UK intelligence assessment said some of Russia’s naval operations in the Black Sea had been relocated following recent Ukraine attacks on its Crimean base.

Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda.

Hungary celebrated Monday after this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Karikó and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman for developing technology that led to controversial mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Authorities in Warsaw said Sunday that about a million people attended the Polish capital’s biggest opposition rally on record ahead of upcoming elections that could determine the level of support for neighboring war-torn Ukraine.

Turkey confirmed late Sunday that it struck Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, hours after a suicide blast hit the interior ministry in Ankara, the capital.

Iran has the infrastructure in place and the know-how to make a nuclear weapon in less than two weeks, according to the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2023 Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction report.

The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit in recent days in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

In a sign of the toll Moscow’s invasion is having on Russian troop levels, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Saturday for the military to enlist 130,000 more recruits.

The coalition supporting wartorn Ukraine faces more internal troubles after the party of a pro-Russian former prime minister won Slovakia’s parliamentary elections.

Armenia has asked the European Union for assistance to help it deal with a massive refugee influx from Nagorno-Karabakh as nearly all 120,000 mainly Christian Armenians living there have fled after Azerbaijan recaptured the region last week in a battle that killed more than 200 people.

Hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia, the nation’s worst in years, have caused haze to reach areas of Malaysia where it has worsened air quality, officials said Saturday.

At least 52 people were killed on Friday in an apparent suicide attack at a religious gathering in southwest Pakistan, officials said, the latest sign of the country’s deteriorating security situation and growing Islamic extremism.

Taiwan revealed the island’s first domestically built submarine on Thursday, a major breakthrough in its defense capabilities as tensions with China continue to rise.

The self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh leader warns it will cease to exist in the new year. Samvel Shahramanyan made the announcement Thursday as an exodus of desperate Armenians continued. The region, which Armenians had controlled for three decades, was seized by Azerbaijan last week, leading to tens of thousands fleeing their homes.  

At least three people including a 14-year-old girl have died following twin shootings in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, authorities said late Thursday.