Britain said it would provide a further 1.3 billion pounds ($1.60 billion) in military support and aid to Ukraine, making the pledge ahead of a planned video call on Sunday by Group of Seven leaders with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Prime Minister Johnson has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine&s efforts to resist...

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North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday (May 7), South Korea&s military said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line against the North.

South Korea&s military said that North Korea fired what is believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile...

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Pakistan&s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has sent in the first consignment of emergency relief to Afghanistan following this week&s deadly floods.

Sharif tweeted Saturday morning that the &first consignment of relief goods for the flood affectees has reached Afghanistan to be followed by more relief measures.

&Pakistan will...

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U.S. health officials on Friday said they are investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children, including five reported deaths, updating a nationwide alert issued in April for doctors to be on the lookout for such cases of the liver disease.

The cases have been identified over the past seven months in 25 states and...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Saturday ordered women to wear the all-covering burqa in public.

The decree marks one of the strictest controls imposed on women since the IEA came into power in August.

The decree was read out at a press conference in Kabul.

&If the body is covered with any clothing, it is considered hijab, but it...

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German authorities are planning to cap the number of Afghan refugees who will be allowed entry into Germany to 5,000 per year.

German Interior Ministry is considering the move in order to keep the programme operationally feasible, German news magazine Der Spiegel said as reported by SchengenVisaInfo.com.

Over 18,800 Afghans entered Germany since the...

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