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ISTANBUL : Turkey's Christian community, which hosts Pope Leo XIV this week, was a minority under the Ottoman Empire whose numbers have dwindled due to forced exiles and massacres. Today, it counts around 100,000 members spread across five denominations --...

WASHINGTON : The White House said Sunday that talks in Switzerland on a proposal to end the Ukraine war marked a "significant step forward," and reaffirmed that any eventual deal would "fully uphold" the war-wracked country's sovereignty. A joint US-Ukraine...

Keel-laying ceremony of the 6th universal nuclear-powered icebreaker Stalingrad under the project 22220 has begun in Baltic Shipyard of St. Petersburg, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part via videoconference in the ceremony, a press release said. The ceremony took...

SANAA : A court operating under Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday sentenced 17 people to death for spying on behalf of Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia, rebel media said. The Houthis' Saba news agency said the court in...

JOHANNESBURG : Security officials from Britain, France and Germany will meet US and Ukrainian counterparts in Geneva Sunday to discuss President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine, sources at a G20 summit said. "The adviser to the...

WASHINGTON : The State Department insisted Saturday that the 28-point plan for ending the Ukraine conflict was not a "wish list" drafted by the Kremlin, denying accusations made by a group of US senators. The lawmakers said earlier Saturday that...

MOGADISHU : Children run in turquoise water, hawkers tout wares on white sands, and families laugh as tourists disembark from small boats -- but it's not some tropical island, it's Somalia's capital Mogadishu. "I didn't really tell my family where...

KYIV : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that 22 people were still missing in the western city of Ternopil, a day after a Russian strike there killed at least 26 people, including three children. In one of the deadliest...

JAKARTA : Hundreds of Indonesians stayed in temporary shelters Thursday after a volcano on the main island of Java erupted, damaging houses and a school, with around 190 people evacuated from its slopes, authorities said. Mount Semeru in eastern Java...

Emirates has been voted ‘Best Airline in the World’ for the 8th consecutive year, at the ULTRAs travel awards held in Dubai. Based on votes from Ultratravel’s global network of 1.2 million travellers, Emirates also scooped the ‘Airline with...