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At least five protesters have been killed by police in Kenya and a section of parliament has gone up in flames as demonstrations against new tax proposals intensify. An angry crowd broke through police lines to storm parliament in the capital Nairobi before setting parts of it on fire. In a speech on Tuesday evening, President William Ruto said all …

Russia rejects the latest sanctions adopted by the European Union (EU) and considers them illegal. The EU Council earlier on Monday adopted the 14th package of economic and individual restrictive measures against Russia. According to a statement issued by the council, the measures target high-value sectors of the Russian economy, including energy, finance and trade, making it increasingly difficult to …

Celeste Arantes, mother of Brazilian soccer legend Pele, has died at age 101, outliving her famous son by 18 months, her family announced Friday. Arantes was 17 when she gave birth to her first child on October 23, 1940, a child who would grow up to become the man widely considered the greatest footballer of all time. “Rest in peace, …

  A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a three-way exercise involving Japan as it stepped up military training to deal with North Korean threats, which have intensified following a security pact with the Russia. An F-18 fighter jet sits in the hangar of the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, docked at …

Armenia has joined the list of countries that recognize an independent Palestinian state. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed this in a statement in Yerevan on Friday. The ministry said Armenia has always considered a two-state solution as the best way out of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The statement read: “The dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and …

  The leaders of Vietnam and Russia said they wanted to strengthen ties as the two met in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. There is a statue of Lenin in the center of Hanoi Vietnamese President To Lam praised his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on his recent re-election. Putin, for his part, said that strengthening the strategic partnership …

Five tourists were killed and one injured in a car accident in the northern Pakistani region of Gilgit Baltistan on Wednesday evening. Police told reporters on Thursday that the accident occurred in the Naltar valley where tourists were returning home after a tourist trip. READ ALSO: Seven Pakistani soldiers killed in car bomb in northwestern region According to police, the …

At least eight people died in a fire incident at a hospital in Iran. Reports said a fire broke out at a hospital in the city of Rasht near the Caspian Sea in the north of the country on Tuesday. Based on initial findings, the deceased were patients in the intensive care unit. READ ALSO: Iranian filmmaker sentenced to 8 …

  In May, Europe’s gas imports from Russia exceeded supplies from the United States for the first time in nearly two years, despite the region’s efforts to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While one-off factors drove the turnaround, it highlights the difficulty of further reducing Europe’s dependence on Russian gas, as several Eastern …

39 year old man, Guy Mukendi, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for allegedly removing a condom while having sex with a woman. According to the UK Guardian, Mukendi, from Brixton, was sentenced on Thursday at Inner London Crown Court for the ‘rape’ of the woman last year in a rare conviction for ‘concealment’, by removing …