Eight tourists who went missing over the weekend when their jeep fell into a river in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have been declared dead by rescuers, who could not find any of them despite a massive search, police said on May 2.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Republican-California) said on May 1 that the United States will continue to support Ukraine after a Russian journalist suggested McCarthy doesn’t support continuing the supply of U.S. weapons.
The White House estimates that since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including more than 20,000 killed.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping appealed for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in a phone call on April 26 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, warning "there is no winner in a nuclear war," in a long-anticipated conversation after Beijing said it wanted to act as peace mediator.
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club will pay for two rooms for Ukrainian tennis players and their teams during the grass-court season and will donate about $1.25 from each ticket sold at Wimbledon to relief efforts in Ukraine.
The populist leaders of Serbia and Hungary observed a Serbian military exercise on April 22, an event seen as a display of lethal firepower amid the war in Ukraine and tensions in the Balkans.
A new bipartisan caucus in the U.S. Congress is condemning the Iranian government over the recent suspected poisoning of schoolgirls in the country, amplifying the growing criticism in Washington against the Islamic republic and its disregard for human rights.
The European Union's border-protection agency, Frontex, began its official deployment in North Macedonia on April 20, extending its operations outside the bloc to a fifth country.
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka has won the World Press Photo of the year for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol, in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack.
Poland has begun building a state-of-the-art electronic barrier at its land border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to monitor and counteract any illegal activity, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on April 18.
The United Nations is ready to make the "heartbreaking" decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it can't persuade the Taliban to let local women work for the organization, the head of the UN Development Program said.
Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason and other offenses, including spreading "false information" over his criticism of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Iran’s president on April 14 delivered an unprecedented speech to an annual pro-Palestinian rally in the Gaza Strip -- a rare display of Iran’s importance to the Hamas militant group that rules the territory.
Italy is investigating how a Russian businessman escaped from house arrest to avoid extradition to the United States on sanctions-breaking charges.
China won't sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, the country's foreign minister said, responding to Western concerns that Beijing could provide military assistance to Russia.
The entire Russian Pacific Fleet was put on high alert on April 14 for snap drills that will involve practice missile launches in a massive show of force amid the tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine.
Neighbors Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova signed cooperation agreements in Romania's capital on April 13 after a trilateral meeting on ways to strengthen security in their Black Sea region to counter threats posed by Russian aggression.
The top diplomats from Russia, China, Iran, and Pakistan attended a conference on April 13 that focused on ensuring regional security in light of the situation in Afghanistan.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning, a spokeswoman said on April 12.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed the growth outlook for cash-strapped Pakistan, forecasting the country's fragile economy will grow just 0.5 percent this year, down from 6 percent in 2022.
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