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Tigrayan rebels agreed to a "cessation of hostilities" on Friday, a new turning point in the nearly 17-month war in northern Ethiopia following the government's announcement of an indefinite humanitarian truce a day earlier. The rebels said in a statement sent to AFP early Friday that they were "committed to…

US President Joe Biden will travel to a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border Friday, trying to signal Western resolve against a Russian invasion that has increasingly turned to a grinding war of attrition. Air Force One will jet into the eastern Polish town of Rzeszow -- bringing the US president…

Families struggle to maintain contact with relatives in Ukraine with communications disrupted since Russian invasion.

On Wednesday, a United Nations committee became the first international law body to recognise that criminalising female same-sex sexual activity is a fundamental breach of human rights.

From the Bible to "The Grapes of Warth," reading classic texts of people seeking new lives can create empathy

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

Britain's Ministry of Defence says Ukraine has launched strikes on "high-value" Russian logistical targets after Kyiv said it had sunk a Russian ship unloading armoured vehicles in an occupied port city.

It also abstains in UNSC on Russia’s resolution on humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

NATO says it will tighten sanctions against Moscow and send more military aid to Ukraine, but falls short of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's pleas for help.