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Tensions are high after India carried out strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday morning. India's military said it struck infrastructure used by militants, while Pakistan's army reported India had killed 26 civilians. This attack came two weeks after India blamed Pakistan...

A federal judge has stated that US President Donald Trump illegally halted the operation of the Voice of America (VOA), a federally funded international news service created by Congress, Al Jazeera reported.

China has warned countries against striking trade deals with the United States at Beijing’s expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiraling trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, Al Jazeera's Alex Kozul-Wright wrote in his explainer on the US-China tariff war.

The United States federal government on Monday announced it is to freeze more than $2.2 billion (€1.94 billion) in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard as the university has said it won't stymie activism on campus, a key demand from the Trump administration, Deutsche Welle reported.

US President Donald Trump's administration has exempted smartphones, computers, and some other electronic devices from "reciprocal" tariffs, including the 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports, the BBC reported.  

US President Donald Trump has held what he described as a "very good" hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after speaking to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, BBC reported.

Syria’s interim government has sent reinforcements to coastal cities in the country’s northwest where security forces have been engaged in heavy battles with fighters loyal to former ruler Bashar al-Assad, Al Jazeera reported.

At least 25 people have died in Ukraine in the latest wave of Russian strikes, Ukrainian officials say, as the conflict shows no sign of easing, BBC reported.

An alleged thief in Florida swallowed stolen earrings worth more than half a million dollars moments before police took him into custody last week, BBC reported.

US President Donald Trump recently said that the United States and Ukraine had agreed to a draft critical minerals deal that, according to the president, could be worth about $1 trillion. The proposed deal is seen by many analysts as an attempt by Kyiv to win the support of the new US administration...