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The agreement between the three Sunni Muslim-majority states brings together oil-rich Saudi Arabia and nuclear power Pakistan as well as Turkey, which has NATO’s second-largest army and a rapidly growing defence industry. It would increase cooperation and deterrence at a time of increased regional uncertainty and threats from the war in Iran.

The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in a basket of internationally traded food commodities, averaged 131.1 points in July, up from 130.3 in June and the highest reading since January 2023.

Scientists believe the animals are asleep, but prefer the more cautious term because it has not been conclusively demonstrated.

A student opened fire at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, according to authorities, who said he also appeared to have killed his two grandparents at the family home earlier in the morning.

The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.

Ukrainian long-range drones hit a warehouse of Russia’s biggest online retailer in the Ural Mountains, more than 2,000 kilometres from the two countries’ border, local officials and the company said Friday.

In a third detention facility, officials used tear gas to control inmate protests on Friday.

An Australian air crew flew an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter rescue.

Serbia is in the process of joining the EU, but that has been stalled partly because of Belgrade’s policies toward Moscow.

Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy abuse during a four-day trip to France next month that will include a visit to UNESCO headquarters, a meeting with French bishops in Lourdes and an interreligious meeting in the border city of Metz, the Vatican announced on Friday.

An investigation was underway at a Chicago funeral home after more than 50 decomposing bodies were found in the facility.

Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday that the White House said expands the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship and bans 'birth tourism.'

Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably Thursday as jurors viewed autopsy photos of the youngest of her three children whom she strangled in 2023, until the court eventually had to take an unscheduled break.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

A brief on-air moment involving a morning anchor has gone viral, with many viewers offering sympathy, rather than criticism. The anchor, who recently welcomed her second child, later joked about the incident on social media.