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Breakaway Turkish Cypriots on ethnically-divided Cyprus must do their share in stemming migrant arrivals, a senior European Union official said Saturday, as the number of asylum-seekers has shot up significantly so far this year, European Commission Vice-President Margharitis Schinas said that Turkish Cypriot authorities should also be held accountable for…

Health workers gathered on the Millennium Bridge in support of a nuclear weapons ban

As France grapples with a particularly intense heatwave this weekend, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country, meteorologists say the increasingly early arrival of heatwaves is directly linked to global warming due to human activities.

The Dutch government has formally apologized to soldiers who were sent as U.N. peacekeepers to defend the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica with insufficient firepower and manpower to keep the peace

Record temperatures, fires or drought: France, Spain and other western European countries braced on Saturday for a sweltering June weekend set to break records.

Workers unpacking Colombian bananas shipments find rather unexpected surprise amid crates

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer.

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70%…

Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) concluded a regional tour that took it to each of Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt and Qatar to attract economic and political support. The President of the PLC on Wednesday arrived in the Qatari capital, Doha, the last stop on his trip. Dr.

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world.”