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People gather, among them students, to walk on the street towards the northern city of Novi Sad, for a huge rally on November, marking the first anniversary of a train station disaster that killed 16 people, in Belgrade, Serbia.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Anniversary of deadly train station disaster marked with large rally

NOVI SAD (AP): Tens of thousands of people from all over Serbia commemorated the victims of a railway station disaster a year ago in the northern city of Novi Sad in a gathering on Saturday seen as a…
Forensic investigators on the platform by a train at Huntingdon station after a mass stabbing on a London-bound train in Cambridgeshire, England.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Police rule out terrorism in stabbing attack on train after two men are arrested

LONDON (AP): British police dismissed speculation on Sunday that a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train the previous evening was terrorism-related, but said two people who were wounded remain…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (left) listens to his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein during a news conference after a meeting at the foreign ministry in Baghdad, Iraq.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Foreign minister calls for disarmament of Kurdish fighters

BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Sunday called on Kurdish separatist fighters, who have withdrawn to the country’s north after waging a decades-long insurgency in Turkey, to…
A woman observes All Saints’ Day, a time for reflecting on those who have died, in Kroczewo near Warsaw, Poland.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Catholics honour All Saints’ Day with family gatherings,cemetery visits

WARSAW (AP): Poles met up with families and visited their beloved dead on All Saints’ Day, which was celebrated Saturday across the Catholic world. All Saints’ Day, annually celebrated on November 1,…
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31 Oct, 2025 0

CARICOM countries vote in favour of resolution to end US trade embargo against Cuba

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations General Assembly Wednesday has, for the 33rd consecutive year, adopted a resolution calling for an end to the decades-long United States embargo against Cuba.…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk
31 Oct, 2025 0

US strikes on alleged drug boats ‘unacceptable’

GENEVA (AP): The UN human rights chief said Friday that US military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are…
Britain's Prince Andrew, left, and Britain's King Charles III leave after the Requiem Mass service for the Duchess of Kent at Westminster Cathedral in London, Tuesday, September 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan, File)
30 Oct, 2025 0

King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Thursday stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his…
Police officers look for clues by a basket lift used by thieves at the Louvre museum in Paris.
26 Oct, 2025 0

Louvre theft could make stolen Crown Jewels as famous as Mona Lisa

PARIS (AP): The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty Crown Jewels – long admired at home, little known abroad – to global fame. One…
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters, who reportedly withdrew from Turkey with their weapons, stand to attention during a ceremony in the Qandil area of northern Iraq.
26 Oct, 2025 0

Kurdish rebel group PKK says it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey

QANDIL (AP): A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq, as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in…