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Elite wrestlers who are demanding the resignation and arrest of India's wrestling federation president for allegedly sexually harassing young athletes have suspended their protests after the country’s sports minister promised a swift investigation

MEXICO CITY Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela next week, Iran's state news agency

Malaysia and Indonesia have signed agreements to end longstanding sea border disputes and vowed to bolster cooperation to fight “highly detrimental discriminatory” measures against palm oil

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis spent a "peaceful" night in hospital after a surgery, the Vatican said. Pope Francis

An Australian man who admitted killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff top in Sydney in 1988 has been sentenced to nine years in prison

Singapore ruling party stalwart Tharman Shanmugaratnam will run for the largely-ceremonial role of president after more than two

Hungarian inflation slowed more than estimated in May as a deepening recession limited the room for further price

European Union interior ministers are making a fresh attempt to overcome one of the bloc’s most intractable political problems as they weigh new measures for sharing out responsibility for migrants entering Europe without authorization

Pope Francis has spent a good first night in the hospital following a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall

Tensions have been rising between Israel’s religious and secular Jews since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government took office last December

Ukraine has warned of the danger posed by exploding mines floating in floodwater from the Kakhovka dam disaster. "Water is disturbing mines that were laid earlier, causing them to explode," deputy prime minister Oleksandr Kubrakov told reporters earlier. “As a result of the flooding, infectious diseases and chemicals were getting into the water,” he said. Yesterday, Ukrainians fled to trees and rooftops to escape flooding caused by the collapse of the damm, which Kyiv says was blown up by Russia. Hundreds of thousands are said to be without normal access to clean drinking water following the breach, described by Ukraine officials as the biggest eco-diaster since Chernobyl. Read More Mapped: The damage caused by Ukraine’s devastated dam Nato countries ‘could send troops to Ukraine in coalition of the willing’ former alliance chief warns From Stalin to Putin, dam-busting has been a barbaric and brutally effective tactic for warmongers for decades Massive destruction after Ukraine dam collapse revealed in new satellite images

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW For more than 15 months Russia has been fighting a war in Ukraine that