International Desk

De-escalation plans announced, Russian military intensifies bombing

Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, just hours after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed as a ploy t...

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Coup-hit states deadlined by West African leaders after summit

Accra, Ghana - West Africa's main political and economic bloc said on Friday it would give Mali's military transitional government 12 to 16 months to arrange elections and offered Guinea's ruling j...

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