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Officials say about 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia.

The OPEC oil cartel and allied producers including Russia aren't changing their targets for shipping oil to the global economy.

The head of U.S. intelligence says Russia’s war against Ukraine is running at a “reduced tempo” and suggests Ukrainian forces may have the upper hand in coming months.

China has reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions following increasingly vocal public frustrations.

The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and an underground metro station starts in earnest this week.

Iran's state-run news agency says authorities have executed four people accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

Indonesia’s highest volcano on its most densely populated island has released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava in its latest eruption.

Palestinians have pushed back against Israeli police claims that an Israeli border police officer who shot to death a 22-year-old Palestinian at close range acted in self-defense.

The Biden administration is toughening its language toward NATO ally Turkey.

A daunting canoe voyage — covering almost 500 kilometers, or about 300 miles across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean — is underway.

Russian authorities have rejected a price cap on the country’s oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and are threatening to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.

Ukraine has won victories on the battlefield against Russia but faces a looming challenge on the economic front.

The camel batted her eyelashes and flashed a toothy smile for the television cameras at the Mzayen World Cup.

A security organization born in the Cold War to maintain peace in Europe has ended a high-level meeting without a final resolution.

Ukraine has banned the activities of religious organizations “affiliated with centers of influence” in Russia and says it will examine the links between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches.

A Ukrainian official says Ukrainian embassies and consulates in six European countries have received packages containing animals’ eyes in recent days.

Israel’s paramilitary border police says an officer killed an alleged Palestinian assailant in the occupied West Bank after they wrestled over a weapon.

South Africa’s president might lose his job as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm.

Street protests that broke out in several Chinese cities over the weekend may have come as a surprise, but the ruling Communist Party has been preparing for this moment for years, decades even.

An Australian prosecutor on Friday dropped the rape charge of a woman who was allegedly assaulted in a parliamentary office after he determined that the stress of the trial would put her life at risk.

The European Union is edging closer to a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil.

Morocco is the Arab world’s last hope at the first World Cup ever to be held in the Middle East.

Hundreds of people have attended a street protest in Bulgaria’s capital to oppose a revision of the Election Code that reinstates paper ballots.

Russian shelling has cut off power in much of the recently liberated Ukrainian city of Kherson just days after it was restored.