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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.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged that his country’s long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia has begun. The comments come after an escalation of fighting in the south and east of Ukraine and Moscow expressing doubts about Kyiv’s progress of the widely anticipated push.

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.

Kyiv pleaded for international help on Wednesday as tens of thousands of people were at risk of drowning following the collapse of a gigantic dam in a Russian-occupied region of southern Ukraine.

French protesters angry about President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms stormed the Paris 2024 Olympic Games headquarters as part of Tuesday’s demonstrations and strikes disrupting France.

Prompting outrage from Israel and the United States, Iran was last week elected to two leadership roles in the United Nations, including as rapporteur to the committee responsible for disarmament and international security, Algemeiner reports. The second position to which Iran was elected on Thursday last week is that of a Vice President of the UN General Assembly.

Ukraine has accused Russia of blowing up a massive dam on the Dnipro River, forcing thousands of people to flee catastrophic flooding. Moscow denies responsibility for the disaster in the Russian-occupied Kherson area in southern Ukraine, but Kyiv wants the United Nations to intervene.