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A Taiwan delegation attended the European Civil Protection Forum on June 28 in Brussels, Belgium, underscoring the government’s commitment to working with like-minded partners to advance digital means for disaster prevention and response,…

The new speaker of France’s lower house of parliament — the first woman to hold the post — vigorously defended the right to abortion Tuesday and called on the chamber to be “vigilant” about protecting it from reversal.

Major companies including Disney, JP Morgan and Facebook owner Meta have told staff they will cover employee travel expenses for abortions, as millions of US women face restricted access.

Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 people in the center of the…

NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security, as the military alliance met Wednesday to confront what NATO’s chief called the biggest security crisis since World War II.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortion rights set off a contest between Democrats and Republicans going into the midterm elections over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable…

The deaths occurred during an apparent human smuggling attempt along the US-Mexico border.

A poisonous gas leak in Jordan’s southern port city of Aqaba on Monday killed 13 people and injured 251.

A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest quakes in decades, the state-run news agency reported. Officials warned…

Taiwan scrambled jets to warn away 29 Chinese aircraft that entered an air defence zone, including bombers that flew to the south of the island and into the Pacific.

The Kaliningrad region, which has no land border with Russia, is a strategic region where Russia's Baltic Fleet is headquartered

Russia reduced natural gas to Europe again Friday, including cutting flows by half to Italy and Slovakia and completely to France, as countries have worked to ease their dependence on Russian supplies amid the war in Ukraine.

Four European leaders visited Ukraine on Thursday, denouncing the brutality of the Russian invasion in a high-profile show of support amid Kyiv’s fears that Western resolve to help the embattled country could wane as the war grinds on.

The United Arab Emirates on Monday banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss between two lesbian characters.

Officials said Monday that 22 people were hospitalized after a regional passenger train and a locomotive collided head-on in northeastern Spain.