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Russian and U.S. diplomats are holding talks in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss ways to normalize the operation of their respective embassies after rounds of diplomats’ expulsions in the past years

Israel’s refusal to withdraw from a narrow strip of desert on Gaza's border with Egypt, as called for in the ceasefire with Hamas, could threaten the truce

The U.K. government has provided provisional approval to the creation of a second runway at Gatwick Airport outside London

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances

Eighty-four Indonesians freed rom scam centers in Myanmar arrived at the Thai border city of Mae Sot earlier on Thursday, part of an ongoing large scale repatriation effort following a crackdown by Thailand, Myanmar and China

The number of babies born in South Korea has rebounded for the first time in nine years, welcome news for a country grappling with one of the the world’s most serious demographic crises

Eight people have been killed in a nighttime fire in the Philippines' capital region that gutted a three-story residential building in less than an hour

Authorities say Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home

A Romanian official says influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have left for the U.S. after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted

Pope Francis is continuing his slow recovery from double pneumonia and beating back speculation of an imminent death, resignation or conclave