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Belarus eyes Western ties as it frees journalist Andrzej Poczobut 

28 April 2026

Belarus has released Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut from jail as part of a prisoner exchange. Poland’s ...

Maldives police raid news outlet over report alleging president’s affair 

28 April 2026

Male, Maldives – Police in the Maldives have raided the offices of a critical news outlet and barred its editors from ...

Who is Ali al-Zaidi, the businessman named as Iraq’s PM-designate? 

28 April 2026

After months of political wrangling, Iraq’s Coordination Framework on Monday named Ali al-Zaidi, a multimillionaire bu...

How Massie’s Kentucky primary may test Trump’s hold on the Republican Party 

28 April 2026

That principled conservatism is what appeals to Joshua Crider, who lives in Greenup, Kentucky, on the far eastern edge o...

The cost of 76 years of US wars, from Korea to Iran 

28 April 2026

“We called it ‘moon dust’,” Jeffery Camp, a 61-year-old retired military veteran who lives in Sarasota, Florida,...

What is the Azawad Liberation Front, part of the Mali attacks? 

28 April 2026

Mali is reeling from attacks on army bases over the weekend that killed Defence Minister Sadio Camara, his wife, two chi...

‘War crime’: Afghan-Pakistan truce under strain after university strike 

28 April 2026

Islamabad, Pakistan – Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities say Pakistani mortars and missiles struck a university and ...

What’s in Iran’s latest proposal – and how has the US responded? 

28 April 2026

The United States is considering a new proposal from Iran to end the ongoing war amid a fragile ceasefire between the lo...

UAE leaves OPEC and OPEC+ 

28 April 2026

The United ‌Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it quit OPEC and OPEC+, dealing ⁠a heavy ⁠blow to the oil exporting grou...

Mapping the destruction: How Israel ‘wiped out’ Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil 

28 April 2026

In the historic heart of Bint Jbeil, a 400-year-old Great Mosque once stood as a testament to the city’s enduring cult...