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[ad_1] Russia said Monday that its forces helped end a deadly weekend clash between Azerbaijani soldiers and the police of Nagorno-Karabakh, urging all parties to show restraint. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended …

[ad_1] The fight for Bakhmut has been raging for months but, according to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, a Russian victory over the Donetsk city would not prove all that strategically advantageous for Moscow.  “I think it is more of a symbolic value than it is strategic and operational value,” …

[ad_1] A six-party alliance on Monday nominated main opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections in May, ending months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters. The alliance tapped the leader of the pro-secular, center-left Republican People’s Party, …

[ad_1] North Korea has threatened to take “quick, overwhelming action” after the United States flew a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber over the Korean Peninsula in an exercise with South Korean warplanes. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of dictator Kim Jong-Un, made the threat as the U.S. and South Korea continue to …

[ad_1] One of the four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week for health services and was subsequently shot at and kidnapped has been identified by a member of his family. Zalandria Brown, of Florence, South Carolina, identified her younger brother, Zindell Brown, as one of the four victims and …

[ad_1] British police are searching for a group of men who have repeatedly tortured foxes – including setting them on fire in East London.  An animal rescue group called the police late last month about a fox being set on fire in a wooded area near Kestrel Avenue and Linton …

[ad_1] The Russian government has donated 20,000 tons of fertilizer to Malawi as part of its efforts to garner diplomatic support from various African nations. Russia will give 260,000 tons of fertilizer to countries in the continent, Russian Ambassador to Malawi Nikolai Krasilnikov said at a handover ceremony Monday at …

[ad_1] The U.S. government has escalated its trade dispute over proposed Mexican limits on genetically modified corn, asking Monday for formal consultations with Mexico on the issue. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office announced it has called for consultations with Mexico over proposed rules that would ban GM corn for human …

[ad_1] Four Peruvian soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Peru’s president have turned violent, military officials said Monday. Two soldiers also were missing and five suffering hypothermia following attempts to cross the Ilave River …

[ad_1] A massive fire at a crammed camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh left thousands of the refugees homeless Sunday, a fire official and the United Nations said. No casualties were reported at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official. The UNHCR in …