Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán traveled to Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday, in rare visit by a European leader.

Hurricane Beryl churned toward the Cayman Islands and Mexico on Thursday after leaving a trail of destruction in southern Jamaica, killing at least two people on the island nation, bringing down power lines, and leaving hundreds homeless and in shelters.

Germany summoned Turkey’s ambassador on Thursday over a Turkish soccer player’s ultra-nationalist “wolf salute” at a Euro 2024 match.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets towards Israel Thursday in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander amid growing fears of a new escalation in fighting on Lebanon's southern border with Israel.

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• Ola edged out Natalia Kalucka to take second Polish spot
• ‘It was a rollercoaster moment. I was so happy, but so sad’

Ola Kalucka remembers sitting at breakfast with her twin sister Natalia on the morning of the final Olympic qualification round for speed climbing last month. Both had enough points to make the Polish team in Paris, but only one could.

“It was hard because I knew that I needed to fight my sister,” Ola recalled. “We were crying, because we were highly aware that it was going to be a bittersweet evening for us.” Although world champion Natalia was five points in front on the morning of the finals in Budapest, Ola finished ahead of her and secured the Olympic spot.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule against discrimination on the basis of gender identity in health care.

Proposed sale of 25m shares disclosed in notice on Tuesday after stock hit all-time high of $200.43 during session

Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos is planning to sell almost $5bn worth of shares in the e-commerce giant, a regulatory filing showed, after its stock hit a record high.

The proposed sale of 25m shares was disclosed in a notice filed after market hours on Tuesday. The stock had hit an all-time high of $200.43 during the session. It has jumped more than 30% so far this year, outpacing the 4% gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index.

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At the U.K. election, candidates will include by Count Binface a man with a trash can on his head or someone dressed as “Elmo” from Sesame Street.

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Police in Germany arrested four stateless Syrian Palestinians and one Syrian national suspected of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Syria.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told her Brothers of Italy party on Tuesday that it should expunge from its ranks anyone who idolizes Italy’s fascist past.

Sierra Leone officially banned child marriage on Tuesday with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to end the practice that remains widespread.

CSIS calls site near Guantánamo a ‘powerful tool’ that will be able to monitor air and maritime activity of US military

Satellite images appear to show that Cuba is building a new radar site likely to be capable of spying on the US’s nearby Guantánamo Bay naval base, in the latest upgrade to the country’s surveillance capabilities long thought to be linked to China.

The base, under construction since 2021 but previously not publicly reported, is east of the city of Santiago de Cuba near the El Salao neighborhood, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report published on Monday and later referenced by the Wall Street Journal.

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Hunter Biden is accusing Fox News in a lawsuit of distributing “revenge porn” by broadcasting nude images of him as part of a miniseries that was available on the conservative outlet’s streaming service, Fox Nation.

Hunter Biden is accusing Fox News in a lawsuit of distributing “revenge porn” by broadcasting nude images of him as part of a miniseries that was available on the conservative outlet’s streaming service, Fox Nation.

The far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella won France's election first round, a blow to President Emmanuel Macron.

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A Chinese aerospace company said the first stage of a rocket under development had detached from its launch pad and landed in a hilly area in central China.

The far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella won France's election first round, a blow to President Emmanuel Macron.

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Park rangers on Japan’s Mount Fuji officially started this year’s climbing season, levying new trail fees and limiting hiker numbers to curb overcrowding.

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into the military, a new blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that could lead to the collapse of his increasingly fragile governing coalition.

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U.S. auto dealers grappled with an ongoing cyber attack-led software outage on Monday, with some reverting to manual paperwork as car industry technology provider CDK worked to restore systems used by more than 15,000 retail locations.

Deepening cooperation between Russia and North Korea could create an uncomfortable situation for China, which is close with both countries.

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The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing the firm’s large U.S. customers, including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments.