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JERUSALEM — A female journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. The broadcaster and a reporter who was wounded in the incident blamed Israeli

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The unprecedented economic sanctions leveled against Russia haven’t stopped the country from continuing its war in Ukraine — but they have succeeded in crushing its economy. Bloomberg reports that leaked economic forecasts from Russia’s Finance Ministry project that the Russian

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American who was among the network’s most prominent figures, was shot dead Wednesday as she covered an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank. The Qatar-based TV channel said Israeli forces

Tokyo will begin recognizing same-sex partnerships from November after revising current rules, officials said Wednesday, becoming the largest city in Japan to do so. Japan is the only nation of the Group of Seven countries that does not recognize same-sex

Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was shot dead execution-style Tuesday while honeymooning on a Colombian Caribbean island by attackers who fled by sea, police and his widow said. Paraguay‘s president denounced the crime as a “cowardly murder” and a fellow

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On a quiet, sunny morning in the suburbs of Helsinki, we pull into the car park of a swimming pool.

Boris Johnson was due to travel to Finland on Wednesday and it is expected he will discuss the possibility of the country joining NATO.