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Youths and police clashed for a second day in Milan on Sunday, where mostly black-clad assailants hurled bottles, ransacked stores and destroyed property around the central Duomo plaza.

The world’s official time standard will stop adding leap seconds from 20 May 2027. The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) decided to end the practice on Thursday 15 October 2026.

Kenya has recorded its second case of Ebola, the health ministry said on Wednesday, adding there was “no evidence” of any large-scale transmission of the virus.

US President Donald Trump hailed Greenland as “second to none” for US and European security on Wednesday, saying any future attack on America would have to pass through the Arctic island.

A Russian strike hit Kyiv’s Northern Bridge on Saturday, halting traffic from the left bank to the right and deepening a transport crisis that began when the Southern Bridge was shut a day earlier.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy claims to have intercepted a US underwater vehicle during a reconnaissance mission in the Strait of Hormuz.

Asia needs an estimated $1.7 trillion a year in infrastructure investment through 2030, but no single bank can cover that. Instead, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has built its strategy around a narrower question: how does public money pull in more money behind it? Working with governments, development banks and private investors, AIIB’s focus is…

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lourdes on Saturday evening, landing at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées International Airport to begin the next stage of his four-day France visit, hours after drawing hundreds of thousands of worshippers to an outdoor Mass at Paris’ Place de la Concorde.