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Some 40 leaders, including a dozen from Africa as well as China and Brazil’s president, are gathering in Paris to work out a United Nations-backed new global financing pact. The gathering in the French capital includes a proposed pause in debt repayments for nations facing poverty and disasters.

The U.S. Coast Guard says all five people aboard a submersible that tried to reach the Titanic shipwreck have died in a “catastrophic implosion.”

A New Zealand Disciplinary Tribunal has revoked the teaching certificate of a Christian man who refused to use the preferred name of a transgender student, the New Zealand Herald (NZH) reports.

Friends and family members hope for miracles as “noises” were heard in the search for a missing submersible carrying five people who tried to reach the Titanic shipwreck.

Parts of central Paris seemed a warzone late Wednesday after a natural gas explosion sparked a blaze in buildings injuring scores of people.

A Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the vessel Shandong sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan’s defense ministry said, amid heightened military tension over the island Beijing claims as its own territory.

The United Nations secretary general wants to introduce a worldwide digital identity document (ID) system linked to individuals’ bank accounts.

The arrival of 11 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Hungary freed by Russia in a church-mediated deal without Ukraine’s knowledge has led to tensions between Kyiv and Budapest.

China and Cuba are in talks over building a joint military training facility in northern Cuba that could lead to Beijing having permanently stationed troops close to the United States, thus also expanding the scope for espionage activity, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The facility would be located just 100 miles from the US mainland.

In further evidence of warm ties between Russia and Iran, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk announced this week that Moscow hopes to sign a free trade zone agreement with Iran and several other Eurasion countries by the end of the year, i24News reports.

A submersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the doomed Titanic ship has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean, sparking a search and rescue mission, officials say.

Austria was investigating three suspected Islamists Monday who were detained over allegedly planning to attack the annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade.

Pakistan was holding a day of mourning, and nine suspected human smugglers were to appear at a court in Greece after one of Europe’s worst migrant ship disasters killed hundreds, many of them Pakistanis.

After a decade of work, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science say they have managed to create stem cell-derived human embryo models outside the uterus.

The Pentagon will send F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the Middle East in direct response to increasingly “unsafe” behavior by Russian aircraft in the skies over Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the latest escalation of tensions between the nations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia has now moved tactical nuclear weapons into neighboring Belarus as African leaders visited Ukraine for peace talks that they also sought to continue in Russia on Saturday.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has told Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine must end as it impacts millions, including the African continent. He made the remarks while meeting Putin in the Russian city of St. Petersburg over the weekend as battles still raged in Ukraine, some 16 months after Russia’s military invasion of the country began.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing as part of efforts to ease military and political tensions.

The secretary-general of the United Nations has unveiled a “Global Digital Compact” to police “hate and lies” about issues such as climate change.

Greek authorities said Thursday that more than 500 migrants, including many children, were believed to have died after their overloaded fishing boat capsized and sank off southern Greece.