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Opium farming in Afghanistan has dropped significantly following a ban imposed by the Taliban government in 2022, the United Nations said.The total area of land for growing opium poppy shrank 20% since last year, while the amount of opium...

Attackers have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia after firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel, according to a UK maritime agency.The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has issued an alert about the attack,...

About 50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police say.Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they said in a statement.Police say they were...

Miss Universe contestants walked out of a pre-competition briefing on Tuesday, after an official from the host nation Thailand publicly berated Miss Mexico. Miss Universe Thailand director Nawat Itsaragrisil called Miss Mexico, Fatima Bosch, a 'dumbhead' for failing to...

Laura Gozzi and Paul Kirby,Europe digital editorLibkos/Getty ImagesBut losing Pokrovsk would be a blow for Ukrainian morale at the start of a winter of Russian attacks on power supplies. It would also come at significant cost to manpower, resources...

ReutersSouth Africa's government says it has received distress calls from 17 citizens who have joined mercenary forces in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.The men are between the ages of 20 and 39 years and are trapped in Ukraine's war-torn Donbas region.President...

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has declared a state of calamity after Typhoon Kalmaegi, one of the strongest typhoons this year, caused severe flooding in central Philippines, leaving at least 114 dead. The storm has flooded entire towns on...

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Meryl Sebastian & Devina GuptaBBC NewsGetty ImagesThe election comes on the back of a controversial voter list revision carried out by India's Election Commission a few months ago. The commission released a list of 74.2 million voters in September,...

Anthony Zurcher,North America correspondent and Natalie Sherman,at the US Supreme CourtKENT NISHIMURA/POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockPresident Donald Trump's use of sweeping tariffs faced sharp questioning at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a case with major implications for the president's agenda and the...