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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Russia's latest hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile has been ...

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The European Central Bank has left its key interest rate unchanged amid signs consumer price increases are likely to hold ...

The Bank of Japan says it will raise its benchmark interest rate to around 0.75 percent, the highest level in 30 years.

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A Shinto shrine in central Japan has put up a huge "hagoita" wooden paddle bearing a picture of a horse. The priests there ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European leaders to step up their support. He has called on them to agree ...

After facing increasing pressure from the US, leaders in Venezuela have urged the United Nations Security Council to meet.

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