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The US government is in talks to send Afghans currently residing at a former US base in Qatar to the Democratic Republic of Congo, AfghanEvac, a group seeking to help the former allies said Tuesday. The Afghans were relocated to Qatar after US-led international forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021 as they had provided assistance to the

Mexican authorities on Tuesday said a gunman who killed one person and injured several others at the Teotihuacan pyramids in central Mexico had carried materials related to attacks in the United States. One Canadian tourist was killed while visitors from Canada, Colombia, Russia, Brazil and the United States were among those injured in the Monday shooting. The

Skip next section US sanctions network supplying Iran missile, drone programmes April 22, 2026 US sanctions network supplying Iran missile, drone programmes The United States has imposed new sanctions on an international network accused of supplying weapons and components to Iran. The Treasury Department says the measures target 14 individuals, companies and aircraft linked to

On an otherwise ordinary Thursday, a 14-year-old entered a middle school in the southern city of Kahramanmaras, opening fire on two classrooms, killing eight students and a teacher. The shocking attack followed another school shooting two days earlier in Siverek in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, in which the gunman wounded 16 people before killing himself in a showdown with police. 

Children who do not reach the age of 18 before January 1, 2027 will never be permitted to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in the UK, once a new law that has now completely cleared parliament gets royal assent from King Charles III.  The Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared its final parliamentary hurdle on Monday, when the

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has identified seven organic compounds in rock near the planet's equator, five of which had not previously been found on Mars.  Researchers publishing in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday said the experiment also hinted at the presence of another organic compound bearing a structure similar to the precursors to DNA

Is Bulgaria going to be governed by its very own Viktor Orban? Or will the rampant corruption in the country finally be tackled? These are the questions being asked by the media after Progressive Bulgaria, the new party of former President Rumen Radev, won the parliamentary election on April 19 and is set to have an

Data centers need vast amounts of energy to fuel servers and process the information that keeps our websites, applications and generative AI models running.  The United States has more data centers than anywhere else in the world and the extra energy demand is straining transmission grids and driving up the cost of electricity. Struggling grid operators are turning to polluting fossil

Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter.  Subscribe  here to get it delivered to your inbox, and  listen  to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories Two ships came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday morning, hours after President Trump announced that

A man reads a newspaper with a front page article referring to anticipated US-Iran peace talks, at a stall in Islamabad on April 22, 2026. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked US President Donald Trump for extending a ceasefire with Iran and indefinitely pushing back the end of the two week truce, with Tehran silent