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Dormant Russia volcano erupts for first time in 450 years

Pictures released by Russian state media show a towering plume of ash spewing from the Krasheninnikov volcano, which last erupted in 1550, according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.

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UK defends new online safety law after X criticism

Under the law, which took effect on July 25, online platforms must take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content such as pornography. ...

1 day ago
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New push to reach plastic pollution pact

In 2022, countries agreed they would find a way to address the crisis by the end of 2024, but the talks in Busan, South Korea failed to overcome fundamental differences. ...

2 days ago

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US has intelligence confirming Islamic State responsibility for Russia attack

The officials said the United States had warned Russia in recent weeks about the possibility of an attack.

1 year ago
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UK royal Kate having chemotherapy after 'huge shock' of cancer discovery

Medical experts said it was difficult to determine how long Kate would need the treatment without more information, including what type of cancer was found.

1 year ago
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Finland is world's happiest country for seventh year: study

And Nordic countries kept their places among the 10 most cheerful, with Denmark, Iceland and Sweden trailing Finland.

1 year ago
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New pictures of Kate published a week after photo-editing furore

British tabloid The Sun published a video and a photograph of a smiling Kate, 42, walking alongside her husband, Prince William, at a farmer's market in Windsor, west of the capital London.

1 year ago
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Russia alleges 10 Indonesians fighting as mercenaries in Ukraine

Moscow has alleged that 10 Indonesians were among “foreign mercenaries” who have fought for Ukraine against Russia since the latter invaded its neighbor two years ago.

1 year ago
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Dutch far-right firebrand Wilders says won't be PM

"I can only become Prime Minister if ALL parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case," Wilders said on X.

1 year ago
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Ukraine 2022 the biggest nuclear crisis since Cuba 1962? Maybe too early to tell

That approach, Kennedy's brother Robert said later, was critical to giving the administration the time and space needed to think clearly.

1 year ago
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French arms manufacturer eyes long-term partnership with Indonesia

French weapons maker Nexter Defense System is set to maintain long-term cooperation with the Indonesian government to build a domestic weapons industry system.

1 year ago
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Protect Earth instead of colonising Mars, Obama says

Speaking at a renewable energy conference in the French capital Paris, the former US president mentioned Silicon Valley "tycoons, many of whom are building spaceships" that could take humans to Mars.

1 year ago
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Romania detains Andrew Tate over sex offence charges

Romanian authorities said in a statement they executed "two European arrest warrants issued by the UK judicial authorities for the committing of sexual offences, of exploitation of persons on the territory of the UK".

1 year ago
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English just 'badly pronounced French', Paris academic says

Rather than aiming to make the monarch sputter into his morning tea, "it's a book written from a humorous perspective, it's deliberately in bad faith, arrogant, chauvinistic and so on," Cerquiglini told AFP.

1 year ago
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Kensington Palace releases altered image of UK's Princess Catherine

The photo, issued to mark Mother's Day in Britain, shows the smiling Princess of Wales sitting on a garden chair, dressed in jeans, a sweater and a dark jacket, surrounded by her three laughing children, George, Charlotte and Louis.

1 year ago
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Russia communist asks for probe into West's possible involvement in Stalin's death

"The party appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB with a request to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin," RIA cited the chairman of the party, Sergei Malinkovich as saying. 

1 year ago
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Princess Kate seen in public for first time since surgery

The 42-year-old princess, whose husband Prince William is heir to the British throne, has been recovering mainly at their home in Windsor, west of London, since leaving hospital on January 29.

1 year ago
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Sweden clears final hurdle to join NATO as Hungary approves accession

Sweden is leaving 200 years of neutrality and military non-alignment behind, says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

1 year ago
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Prabowo dispatches sports minister to send thank-you note to Putin

Dito is scheduled to meet with his Russian counterpart Oleg Matytsin later this week in Kazan, Russia for an event.

1 year ago
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Biden calls Putin a 'crazy SOB'

"We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin, and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate," Biden said in a brief speech at the event in San Francisco that was attended by a small group of reporters.

1 year ago
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WikiLeaks' Assange in last-ditch battle to stop US extradition

US prosecutors are seeking to put Assange, 52, on trial on 18 counts relating to WikiLeaks' high-profile release of vast troves of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables.

1 year ago
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Greek same-sex couples race to wed after historic vote

The historic bill that parliament approved overnight also allowed same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.

1 year ago
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Top UN court rejects S.Africa request for more Gaza measures

The court has yet to rule on the underlying issue, but on January 26 it ordered Israel to ensure it took action to protect Palestinian civilians from further harm and to allow in humanitarian aid.

1 year ago
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Navalny, 47, rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite whom he accused of vast corruption, avarice and opulence. 

1 year ago
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EU rules policing digital content kick in Saturday

The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), kicked in last year for the world's largest platforms, including Facebook and TikTok, but will now apply to all except the smallest companies.

1 year ago
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Putin thanks US journalist Tucker Carlson for interview

Former Fox News star Carlson released a two-hour interview with Putin in Moscow last Thursday, just ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia's offensive in Ukraine.

1 year ago
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King Charles diagnosed with cancer

Charles, who became king upon the death of his 96-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on September 8, 2022, has generally enjoyed good health, barring injuries from polo and skiing.

1 year ago
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Spain swelters in abnormal January heat

Temperatures reached or exceeded 20C at nearly 400 meteorological stations -- almost half the country's total --, the spokesman for national weather agency Aemet Ruben del Campo wrote on X, formerly Twitter, calling the figures an "anomaly".

1 year ago
Europe

German court cuts funding to radical right party

The court in Karlsruhe justified its decision by saying the National Democratic Party (NPD) and its successor, Die Heimat, aimed to undermine or eliminate the country's democratic system. 

1 year ago
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Kremlin says it had no contact with Trump on Ukraine conflict

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leadership had no idea about how Trump planned to resolve the issue in the event of his victory.

1 year ago
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WHO chief warns pandemic accord hangs in the balance

Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO's 194 member states are negotiating an international accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to deal with the next health catastrophe, or to prevent it altogether.

1 year ago
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Israel to face Gaza genocide charges at World Court

World Court hearings to deal with South Africa's charge of genocide against Israel

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Warming world nears critical 1.5C limit in 2023: EU monitor

Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global thermometer 1.48 C above the preindustrial benchmark, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported.

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