(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck central Pakistan, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Sunday. Read full story

(Reuters) -The head of Russia's Caucasus region of Chechnya, a fervent supporter of Moscow's war in Ukraine, said Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin telephoned him on Saturday to congratulate him on his son's wedding. Read full story

(Reuters) -Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova arrived in North Korea on Saturday with a 125-strong delegation of performers and praised cultural cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang for achieving "unprecedented heights". Read full story

(Reuters) -Ukraine's top commander said on Saturday that his forces faced a new onslaught against a key city on the eastern front of its war against Russia, while Moscow said it was making progress in another sector farther southwest. Read full story

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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbian police on Saturday evening clashed with anti- government protesters demanding snap elections and an end to the 12-year rule of President Aleksandar Vucic. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling tied to birthright citizenship prompted confusion and phone calls to lawyers as people who could be affected tried to process a convoluted legal decision with major humanitarian implications. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-led U.S. Senate rejected a Democratic-led bid on Friday to block President Donald Trump from using further military force against Iran, hours after the president said he would consider more bombing. Read full story

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he will "get the conflict solved with North Korea." Read full story

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NEW YORK, June 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stock index S&P; 500 closed at record high on Friday, despite a brief retreat following U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement on terminating all trade talks with Canada. Read full story

(Reuters) -Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense lawyer urged a jury on Friday to find the former hip-hop mogul not guilty in his sex trafficking trial, saying prosecutors are trying to criminalize his unusual sexual preferences. Read full story

Developed by Johannesburg studio Nyamakop, "Relooted" is set in an imaginary future but tackles a topical issue: calls for Western institutions to return to Africa the spoils of colonisation. Read full story

China has removed a top general from the nation's apex military body led by President Xi Jinping, as the defence establishment is facing a wave of purges. Read full story

NEW DELHI/DHAKA (Reuters) -Ukraine plans to ask the European Union to sanction Bangladeshi entities it says are importing wheat taken from Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, after its warnings to Dhaka failed to stop the trade, a top Ukrainian diplomat in South Asia said. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has charged a Syrian national with supporting a foreign terrorist organization for helping to plan a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year, the prosecutor general said in a statement on Friday. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police have detained six U.S. citizens who were attempting to deliver around 1,300 plastic bottles filled with rice, dollar notes and Bibles to North Korea, a police official said on Friday. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has sharply scaled back planned welfare cuts to quell a damaging rebellion by lawmakers in his governing Labour Party. Read full story

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday there would be "legal consequences" for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event planned for this weekend. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Lynne Tracy, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, is leaving Moscow, her embassy said on Friday, noting she had served through one of the most strained periods in relations between Moscow and Washington. Read full story

US president dismisses as 'fake news' reports that plants had only been partly damaged and that enriched uranium had been removed Read full story

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -"Don't wait for her," the WhatsApp caller told the family of Abeer Suleiman on May 21, hours after she vanished from the streets of the Syrian town of Safita. "She's not coming back." Read full story

LOS ANGELES, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A man charged with helping bomb a fertility clinic in California last month died after jumping off a balcony inside a federal detention facility in Los Angeles, local media reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the incident. Read full story

(Reuters) -SpaceX said on Thursday its debris recovery efforts after last week's Starship explosion have been hindered and it has sought cooperation from Mexico, whose president has raised the possibility of legal action against the company. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU leaders agreed on Thursday to renew sanctions imposed against Russia over Moscow's war in Ukraine for another six months, two EU officials said. Read full story

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -For U.S. President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin is a man looking for an off-ramp to his bloody three-year assault on Ukraine. Read full story

(Reuters) -Bill Moyers, a key member of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's inner circle and later a guiding force in American journalism during more than 40 years in public television, has died at the age of 91, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has completed construction of a massive tourist zone on its east coast, state media reported on Thursday, a key project driven by leader Kim Jong Un for years to promote tourism. Read full story

GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) -Ecuador's most-wanted fugitive, the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, has been recaptured after escaping jail last year, President Daniel Noboa said on Wednesday. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Business leaders in New York City voiced concerns on Wednesday, following progressive Democrat Zohran Mamdani's likely victory in the city's hotly contested primary for mayor the day before. Read full story

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday overturned a May decree from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raising the financial transactions tax (IOF) on certain credit, foreign-exchange and private pension plan operations. Read full story

(Reuters) -Ukraine and the Council of Europe human rights body signed an agreement on Wednesday forming the basis for a special tribunal intended to bring to justice senior Russian officials for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon will create two new military zones along the border with Mexico, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, a move that allows troops to temporarily detain migrants or trespassers. Read full story

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said on Wednesday his country does not expect any repercussions from its refusal to meet the defence spending target of 5% of gross domestic product to be set by NATO member countries in a Summit held in The Hague. Read full story

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Britain said it would buy a dozen F-35A fighter jets capable of firing tactical nuclear weapons in what it described as the biggest expansion of its nuclear deterrent in a generation. Read full story

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on Wednesday, joined by crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary heading for their countries' first visit to the International Space Station. Read full story

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) -On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary Russia. Read full story

(Reuters) -The jury in the trial of an Australian woman accused of a triple murder with a meal she allegedly laced with toxic mushrooms is expected to begin considering its verdict this week, in a case that has gripped the country. Read full story

MORWELL, Australia (Reuters) -The trial of an Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives using toxic mushrooms entered its final stages on Wednesday, with the jury soon to begin its deliberations in a case that has gripped the nation. Read full story

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand on Wednesday released a draft 30-year national infrastructure plan, which highlighted a need for the country to invest more in hospitals and electricity production and to prepare to spend more on responding to national disasters. Read full story