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In Pakistan at least 12 people have been killed following a blast outside a district court building in the capital, Islamabad. Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters that the blast was a suicide attack and that police were currently investigating. What do we know so far? "At 12:39 pm (0739 GMT), a suicide attack was carried

Washington will not be sending a top-level team to this year's COP climate summit in Belem, Brazil. The global community expected as much from a president who has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement for the second time, slashed funding for renewable energy, championed fossil fuel projects and told world leaders at

For 75 years, the US has wielded wartime operational control (OPCON) of South Korean forces. The set-up has its origins in the Korean War which erupted in 1950 and largely ended with the truce of 1953. In simple terms, Seoul can command its troops only as long as there is no open conflict, and despite

Indian police on Tuesday launched an investigation into a deadly car blast near the historic Red Fort in the heart of the Indian capital that killed at least eight people.  In the aftermath of the blast, which happened Monday afternoon on a bustling street, authorities have shut down the Red Fort Metro station and closed the

The US Senate late on Monday passed legislation to reopen the government and end the longest-running government shutdown on record. Lawmakers passed the bill 60-40 after agreeing late Sunday to allow the bill to proceed to a vote and  expedite its approval process.  Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called on lawmakers to begin heading back to

It can seem like a strange coincidence to see children parade through the streets of Germany with lanterns to mark St. Martin's Day on November 11 while, at the same time, colorfully dressed carnival revelers shout "Alaaf" or "Helau." Do these things really go together? In fact, Carnival and St. Martin's Day are two customs that share

British-Hungarian writer David Szalay has been awarded the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel "Flesh," a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. The 51-year-old writer beat five other finalists to take the high-profile annual literary award, which honors the best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or

The United States Supreme Court on Monday refused to revisit its precedent recognizing the constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The court, without comment, rejected a bid by a former Kentucky county official Kim Davis to overturn its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which allows same-sex couples to marry. Davis sought to have the Supreme Court

Last year's UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, opened with the country's president, Ilham Aliyev, calling oil — the fossil fuel that, alongside gas and coal, drives global warming — a "gift of God." The opening statements at this year's COP30 climate gathering, held on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Belem, struck a very

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, capping an extraordinary period for the 42-year-old rebel-turned-ruler. Little under a year ago, al-Sharaa led Islamist fighters from Syria's northwest in a lightning offensive that toppled Bashar Assad after 14 years of civil war. He was the first Syrian head of state to