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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