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The United Nations emergency fund released $9.2 milllion to Venezuela on Monday to fund humanitarian programs including health and nutritional assistance to women and children, its first allocation in the crisis, a U.N. spokesman said. The agreement represents a turnaround for

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg called on Russian on Monday to release Ukrainian navy ships and sailors, saying there was no justification for Moscow’s actions. “What we saw yesterday was very serious,” Stoltenberg told a news conference after an emergency meeting of

Four soldiers were killed and another was wounded after a military helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district on Monday. The Bell UH-1 helicopter crashed onto a street between apartments in the Asian district of Sancaktepe, where a

The British academic Matthew Hedges handed a life sentence in the United Arab Emirates for spying has been pardoned by the country’s president. The announcement was made at a press conference in Abu Dhabi. The move follows lobbying over the weekend

A car bomb struck near a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday and armed gunmen stormed inside to attack a controversial cleric, a local elder and the Al Shabaab group said. “A suicide car bomb rammed into the centre of

King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander on Saturday co-piloted a commercial flight from Amsterdam to Istanbul. The 51-year-old royal, who called flying his hobby, was behind the yoke during the Dutch flag carrier KLM’s KL1613 flight to Atatürk Airport. Willem-Alexander piloted a

Up to 145 pilot whales died in a mass stranding on a remote New Zealand island at the weekend, authorities said on Monday. The Department of Conservation (DOC) said two pods of pilot whales were stranded on a beach on Stewart

Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries. U.S. agents shot the gas, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Children were