Human rights groups are sharply criticizing the uncontested election of 15 members of the United Nations' premier human rights body, saying it resulted in countries with poor rights records winning seats

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Mohammed Saber and his family rely on a solar kit for electricity at the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack they call home at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

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Nato's top military commander said the alliance is ‘ready to fight tonight’ amid fears over Russia

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Burnham will hold talks with Zelensky on Wednesday at Downing Street

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Russia's top domestic security agency has arrested a Japanese journalist suspected of spying on Sakhalin Island

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General Oleksandr Syrskyi also responded to his critics after he was sacked as commander-in-chief in July

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The new press secretary made an embarrassing faux pas and then cut off the entire event after just a few minutes. It left some serious questions about whether she actually believes what she’s saying, writes Holly Baxter

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Sir Ken McCallum gave his annual speech on threats to the UK at Thames House on Tuesday.

Authorities in Germany have briefly shut down an airport and scrambled fighter jets to escort a passenger plane from Greece due to an in-flight emergency

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Ukraine received no early warning from its partners about a Russian missile strike on Kyiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Poland blames Russia for an arson attack on a Starlink satellite station in September and two Turkish citizens have been arrested in connection with the sabotage

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US president says both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky want the war to end, but they ‘don't know how to get there’

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The speech is expected to outline Nato’s response to a Russian attack in detail to deter Moscow

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The European Union has imposed sanctions on nearly 1,600 Russian individuals and companies linked to Russia’s arms industry

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Bot traffic has really reduced in the wake of an attack on a Russian internet company – but it doesn’t tell the full story

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is still striking Ukraine's energy facilities despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim of an energy ceasefire

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Asian shares are mixed and oil prices have fallen about $1.50 a barrel as U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to purchase diesel from Russia draws criticism from some lawmakers

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Moscow says it is ready to increase diesel output to pre-war levels, but Ukraine's allies say this will only fuel Vladimir Putin's war

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Action to prevent nuclear conflict could avert an estimated 133 million deaths, says new report

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A man narrowly escaped a Russian drone strike near Kyiv, CCTV footage showed on Thursday, 8 October.

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A Ukrainian drone attack shut down a data center run by Russian technology giant Yandex, the company said Sunday, the third strike on its facilities in four days as Kyiv widens its campaign against infrastructure inside Russia

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UK can play peacemaker after US President’s shock call to oust Ukraine’s leader Zelensky, says defence secretary

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Food standards authorities said the eggs originate from a Ukrainian supplier

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President further vented that Ukraine’s president ‘better damn well stop’ after being asked about his deal to buy diesel from Vladimir Putin

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Editorial: The agreement to buy diesel from Russia will make the American president look weak and fail to cut the price at the pumps

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Trump has announced a deal with Putin to increase Russian diesel supplies to the US

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Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, killing seven people, including three children, and wounding at least 10, officials said Saturday

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A new pact that calls for Russia to boost the U.S. supply of diesel over the next few months is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say

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Hurricane Isaias is forecast to miss the oil industry’s biggest hubs along the Gulf Coast

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Julia Loktev has released a new film, ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile,’ capturing the lives of Russian journalists who fled the country after the invasion of Ukraine

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Navi Pillay, a veteran jurist from South Africa, has won the Nobel Peace Prize

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Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said an influential Russian blogger and former military officer has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to destabilize the Balkan country that is seeking to join the European Union

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Former Ukrainian security service officer was accused of killing woman who allegedly planted bomb

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President Claudia Sheinbaum said the government is now reviewing the footage

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Japan has criticized Russia's request for the extradition of the International Criminal Court's president and eight other tribunal officials from the Netherlands, where the court is based

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Russian strikes killed two people and wounded five more across Ukraine, officials said Friday, as Ukraine struggles to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 50 people over the past three days

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Zimbabwean teenager Kelly Nhedega once dreamed of finishing school and starting a career before having a family

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Last year, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize

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The deal has not yet been confirmed by Ukraine or Russia

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Attorneys for three news organizations banished from the White House by the Trump administration were back in court

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