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Russian President Vladimir Putin has commenced a broad cleaning measure this week, starting with sweeping changes in naval leadership as Moscow stares down the start of a third year of its invasion of Ukraine.  “Admiral Viktor Sokolov has finally been removed from the post of commander of the Black Sea …

An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence on Friday killed at least three workers and left two others missing, local officials said. The accident happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities said …

Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday as a perpetuation of the African country’s homophobic practices. The state university scholarship for people between the ages of 18 and 35 is sponsored by GALZ, …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationship. Charles McGonigal, 55, …

Senegal will hold its next presidential election as soon as possible after a Constitutional Council ruling. The ruling overrode President Macky Sall’s delay of the Feb. 25 election, raising concerns of authoritarian creep in one of Africa’s most stable democracies. Sall reportedly intends to cooperate with the order. Senegal will …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top UN court on Friday rejected a South African request to impose urgent measures to safeguard Rafah in the Gaza Strip, but also stressed that Israel must respect earlier measures imposed late last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case. The …

MUNICH (AP) — Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said. The meeting between U.S. Secretary of …

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases, a defense lawyer said. Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and …

A top court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines upheld laws on Friday that criminalize gay sex, a blow to activists who have long decried the violence the LGBTQ+ community has faced on the conservative Caribbean archipelago. The ruling by St. Vincent’s High Court stems from a 2019 case filed …

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some of Hungary’s best-known online personalities led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters in Budapest on Friday to demand a change in the country’s political culture, a response to the conservative president’s recent resignation over a pardon she issued in a child sexual abuse case. …

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Sudan’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video that purportedly shows some of its troops carrying the severed heads of members of the rival paramilitary faction in the country’s civil war, the military said Friday. The military released a statement that denounced the “shocking content” of the video, …

Cambodia is set to install hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India in an effort to restore the country’s tiger population. The last tiger sighting in Cambodia was recorded in 2007 through a camera hidden in the eastern Mondulkiri province. The Environment Ministry plans to install 410 …

The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services. The EU’s trailblazing Digital Services …

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan took to social media to slam the latest outrage from a senior United Nations official who said Hamas was a political group during a recent television interview. Erdan slammed U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) Martin Griffiths, calling his organization …

State public health workers in Rio de Janeiro are addressing a surge in dengue fever cases, a mosquito-borne illness, during Brazil’s tourist season. The team is searching for standing water where mosquitoes may have laid eggs. Brazil is vulnerable to dengue outbreaks due to frequent rains and high temperatures that …

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Egypt is setting up an area along its border with the Gaza Strip that could shelter Palestinians if an Israeli military offensive in Rafah sparks a mass exodus, a report says.  Three security sources told Reuters that Egypt has started preparing a desert area with basic facilities as part of …

Christian Bruckner, 47, a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has gone on trial for unrelated sexual offenses in Portugal. The charges include three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children. Bruckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a 2005 rape …

Mexico will likely elect a woman as its next president, but the new leader is expected to face financial limitations due to commitments initiated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador has proposed new and expensive projects in the closing months of his administration, leaving big-ticket projects unfinished. Officials …