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SEOUL, South Korea — The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years battered its southern region Tuesday, dumping almost a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroying roads and felling power lines, leaving 20,000 homes without electricity as thousands

(Reuters) – U.S. intelligence has assessed that Moscow is buying artillery ammunition from North Korea, the New York Times reported, on the heels of reports that the Russian military has begun using Iranian-made drones. U.S. government officials told the Times

UK Conservative Party’s new leader wins contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying party members were allowed to vote

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will spend about 1.65 billion yen ($12 million) on the state funeral planned for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to the government’s new estimate on Tuesday that includes security and reception costs. The government in late

By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog is due to issue a report on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine on Tuesday, a day after shelling cut its electricity supplies for the second time in two

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities on Monday outlined an 11-month plan to search for and recover the bodies of 10 coal miners trapped underground a month ago, a quiet admission that they are giving up on ambitions of rescuing

By Humza Jilani LONDON (Reuters) – British shoppers are cutting back on purchases of clothes and other non-essential items as they try to cover their sky-rocketing utility bills and higher food prices, surveys showed on Tuesday. With the country’s next

Members of the right-wing small party “Free Saxons” accompanied by police officers take part in a demonstration against the energy and social policy of the German government. Sebastian Willnow/dpa More than 2,000 people gathered in the centre of the German

The San Diego Tribune reported that Leonard Francis, aka “Fat Leonard,” a Malaysian military contractor known for his girth, severed his GPS monitoring ankle device over the holiday weekend and when U.S. Marshals arrived at his home, it was completely

New list of people banned from Russia include senators, academics, business leaders