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Group paid $50,000 to kidnappers to free them
Thousands of Indigenous demonstrators descend upon Quito, angered about lack of jobs and rising costs
Chinese purchases help offset losses from Western nations scaling back Russian energy purchases over invasion of Ukraine
Clashes since Wednesday between regime forces and IS in remote area of Raqa province also killed seven jihadi fighters, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says
Marina Ovsyannikova, who was born to a Russian mother and a Ukrainian father in Odesa, was until March working as an editor at Russia's Channel One television
A week of talks between a Tripoli-based council and an eastern-based House of Representatives ended Monday without a deal
Heavy rains pushes water levels in Pearl River delta to highest in almost a century and hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the worst-hit parts of region, which includes Guangdong province
Eight will go on trial for culpable homicide after football legend died 2 weeks after brain surgery
Progress with China's unfair trade practices has been elusive, which makes tariffs an important tool, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai tells lawmakers
Two people have died in 10-day protest in which government has declared emergency in six of Ecuador's 24 departments following violent clashes between protesters, security forces
In new results from a clinical study, the company said that the booster did well against BA.4 and BA.5, Omicron's latest subvariants that are becoming dominant
Fifteen representatives of journalist and publishers' unions and organizations from six countries gathered in Geneva for the ‘call to free Julian Assange in the name of press freedom’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, despite being surrounded by a security detail, had rocks thrown at him at an election rally last September
Rollout of shots begins for children ages 6 months to 4 years
For nine days, Ecuadorans have burnt tires and blockaded roads to denounce the rising cost of living
Tehran continues to impose the death penalty on the basis of charges not amounting to 'most serious crimes,' and in ways incompatible with fair trials standards, UN official tells UN rights council
Lotfi Hidouri, editor of the Achahed website who had been detained since Thursday, still faces prosecution over allegedly suspicious activities
Nobel laureate, 77, was detained by military when it ousted her government last year and faces a raft of charges that could see her jailed for more than 150 years
Mass testing appears set to stay as Chinese authorities insist zero-COVID has allowed the world's most populous nation to avoid a public health catastrophe
Rail union RMT argues that strikes are necessary as wages have failed to keep pace with inflation, which has hit 40-year high
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