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Five countries have been elected as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council following a vote in the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Algeria, Guyana, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia will join the premier body for maintaining international peace and security, starting in January, serving for a two-year period.… Read the rest
Washington Post reports that European intelligence service told CIA Ukrainian military was planning attack
The Biden administration received an intelligence report that Ukraine had a plan for an attack on the Nord Stream pipelines three months before an underwater explosion disabled the natural gas link from Russia to Germany, the Washington Post has reported.
The PRI – once the overwhelmingly dominant party of Mexico in the 20th century – is now a weak and also-ran political force
Nina Lakhani in New York and María Teresa Montaño Delgado in Mexico City
Mexico’s oldest party has lost control of the country’s most populous and influential state, in an election result that could signal the end of a powerful network that has dominated politics in the region for almost a century.
Warring factions urged to preserve heritage after video clip appears to show fighters raiding Khartoum museum
Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum and Jason Burke
Heritage officials in Sudan have pleaded with warring factions to preserve tens of thousands of historical artefacts threatened by fighting in the capital, Khartoum, that is in its eighth week.