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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has promised to pledge further help to modernise Ukraine’s military at the defence alliance’s July summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Stoltenberg on Wednesday said that the allies will adopt a multi-year aid package at the summit that will bring Ukraine up to NATO standards....

Customs officers found no fewer than 90 reptiles in the luggage of a passenger at Vienna Airport, Austria. The 85 geckos, two snakes, and two scorpions had a total retail value of 47,000 euros (51,400 US dollars), the Ministry of Finance reported on Tuesday. The 50-year-old had flown from the...

Hunter Biden, US President Joe Biden’s son, is expected to plead guilty to two tax crimes according to a court filing on Tuesday. Hunter is also reportedly striking a deal with federal prosecutors regarding a separate felony gun charge while he was a drug user. The 53-year-old has previously worked...

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Monday, says the pontiff “in great spirits and in great form”. Kerry is the first official to have a private audience with the pontiff since his discharge from hospital. Francis, 86, left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, nine days after surgery...

Brazilian football star, Dani Alves is facing up to 12 years in prison for an alleged sexual assault at a Barcelona nightclub, with his trial set between October and November this year. Alves, 40, has been in custody at Brians 2 since January 20 after a 23-year-old woman alleged he...

According to a report by the Daily Mail UK, certain lesson plans in schools across the United Kingdom have raised concerns as they involve inappropriate content being taught to schoolchildren. These materials include information about anal sex, orgasms, and masturbation, which are introduced to children before they have reached puberty....

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2023. /Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday. President Xi pointed out...

“Be a good servant of the people.” This is the promise Xi Zhongxun,  the father of Chinese President Xi Jinping, once made.  Xi Zhongxun always had the people in his heart, which also deeply influences Xi Jinping.  The father once told his son, “No matter what your job title is,...

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 41 people, mostly students, in western Uganda, in the country’s deadliest such attack in over a decade, officials said Saturday. The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who also abducted six people during...

A man confessed to the killing of his wife who has been missing for two and a half months in western France and has led investigators to her body, police said on Friday. Karine Esquivillon, 54, a mother-of-five, disappeared on March 27 without a trace from her home in the...