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GBDESK// A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom this morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia's interior ministry said. Milan Milosevic,…

GBDESK// The suspected leader of the Islamic State group has been killed in Syria in an operation carried out by Turkey's MIT intelligence agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. "The suspected leader of Daesh,…

GBDESK// Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for Labour Day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. Unions had been…

GBDESK// A UN Security Council committee on Monday agreed to allow the Taliban administration's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and…

GBDESK// At least 18 Mexican tourists died and two dozen were injured when their tourist bus plunged into a ravine in the western state of Nayarit, a local official told AFP on Sunday. The bus, from a private company, was transporting…

GBDESK// US President Joe Biden on Saturday, in a possible preview of a 2024 presidential campaign theme, attacked news outlets he said used "lies told for profit and power" to stir up hatred, as he coupled his remarks with pointed jokes…

GBDESK// BBC chairman Richard Sharp on Friday announced his resignation after an inquiry found he had breached rules for failing to declare his involvement in arranging a loan for then prime minister Boris Johnson. "I feel that this…

GBDESK// India and Russia agreed to strengthen their defence partnership in talks between their defence ministers today, the Indian government said, amid worries in New Delhi that the war in Ukraine was hurting its own military…

GBDESK// A huge fire erupted in Moscow-annexed Crimea after a suspected drone attack hit an oil depot yesterday, as fighting intensified on the southern Ukrainian front and shelling deprived Russian border villages of power. The…

GBDESK// Russian strikes battered cities across Ukraine yesterday, killing 25 people including five children, as Kyiv said preparations for a counter-offensive against Moscow's forces were nearly complete. The deadly new attacks…