From Carlos Alcaraz to Jannik Sinner, and Aryna Sabalenka to Coco Gauff, the world’s top tennis players have arrived Down Under as the year’s first Grand Slam gets under way in Melbourne this week.
The famous blue hard courts will see all-time…

From Carlos Alcaraz to Jannik Sinner, and Aryna Sabalenka to Coco Gauff, the world’s top tennis players have arrived Down Under as the year’s first Grand Slam gets under way in Melbourne this week.
The famous blue hard courts will see all-time…

Renewed clashesbetween Syrian security forces and Kurdish fightersin the Aleppo region are a reminder ofthevolatilecommunal andsectarian tensions that continue to roil the country more than a year after the fall of theAssaddynasty.
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At the request of the United States, the United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on January 15 to “provide clarification on…

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A newly released video shows a huge crowd attending the funeral in Abdanan of Alireza Seydi, a teenager who was killed…

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India has shut down a medical college in Indian-administered Kashmir in an apparent capitulation to protests by right-wing Hindu groups over the admission of an overwhelming number of Muslim students into the prestigious course.
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AFP via Getty ImagesIt was a piece of audio obtained by the BBC that revealed what worries the Taliban’s leader most.
Not an external danger, but one from within Afghanistan, which the Taliban seized control of as the previous government collapsed…

Tehran [Iran], January 15 (ANI): Iran’s deepening political crisis took on fresh global urgency this week as the country prepared to execute Erfan Soltani, a 26-year-old protester, in connection with the mass demonstrations sweeping the Islamic…

US President Donald Trump says he wants to buy Greenland from Denmark and is not taking ‘no’ for an answer.
Ilulissat, Greenland – In the Arctic town of Ilulissat, perched beside an ice fjord in western Greenland, fisherman Joel Hansen…

Airspace restrictions come amid fears that US President Donald Trump could attack Iran.
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Iran temporarily closed its airspace to most flights amid attack threats by…