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Farmers harvest wheat on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on April 30. A recent heat wave has affected the yield of India’s wheat crops. | Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Trade is vital to mitigating the global food crisis.

The Italian prime minister’s office has called for disgraced former leader Silvio Berlusconi to pay damages for behaviour that harmed the country’s reputation, a lawyer said in his corruption trial. Lawyer Gabriella Vanadia, representing the Presidency of the Council of

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has shaken southern Peru, according to the US Geological Survey.

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – Just two weeks in office, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol faces clouds over his political honeymoon after a second cabinet nominee withdrew from consideration due to allegations about favouritism in university admissions. Yoon’s conservative

The former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of Egyptian archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were spirited out of the country during the Arab Spring uprisings, a French judicial source

Good for America, bad for Vladimir Putin

Good for America, bad for Vladimir Putin

Biden says “the Second Amendment is not absolute” after Texas elementary school shooting  CBS News 19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas school rampage  The Associated Press Family remembers 10-year-old José Flores Jr. who was killed in the Texas elementary school shooting  CNN

A British toddler has drowned in a swimming pool in Spain’s Costa Blanca, despite efforts by a neighbour to save his life.

It has been nine months since 22-year-old Khadija, her 14-year-old brother and 32-year-old cousin fled the Taliban’s takeover in their home country of Afghanistan. After brief stays in Qatar and Germany, they arrived in the U.S. in late August. Like