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Currently, the Indian economy sits in the fifth position in the world, behind the U.S., China, Japan and Germany.

Guatemalan police raided the headquarters of the Movimiento Semilla party and are attempting to suspend the legal status of the party as one of the run-off election candidates ran as a member of the party. This is creating concerns of election interference.

Protesters and police clashed over the weekend during renewed demonstrations against Peru's interim President Dina Boluarte in the capital Lima, where demonstrators are demanding she step down and hold elections.

A former Russian leader said the end of Vladimir Putin's regime will begin when Ukraine liberates Crimea.

Chinese FM Qin Gang has been out of public view since June 25, and speculations have continued about the reasons for his disappearance, including an alleged extramarital affair.

A video showed a man looking like Yevgeny Prigozhin greeting Wagner mercenaries. His exact whereabouts are still unknown and there have been speculations about whether he is in Belarus or not.

Russian Gen. Sergei Surovikin has not been seen publicly since the Wagner group's failed rebellion in late June.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made the odd comment during a meeting with Irkutsk regional governor Igor Kobzev.

The Philippines' OSG said the ICC decision will not prevent the government from pursuing its own investigation into allegations regarding the Duterte administration's drug war.

China, which obtains a huge portion of its grains from Ukraine, is under international pressure to convince Russia to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that plays a major role in ensuring exports to food insecure countries.

Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister Dmitry Kuleba made the statement while speaking at a ministerial round table at the UN.

Between September and December of this year, Australia is holding a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to create a Voice for the indigenous population of Australia in Parliament.

Another Russian commander has reportedly been dismissed, and this could mean a pattern of insubordination has built up within the Russian military command as criticism among the army's leaders seem to mount.

NATO Secretary General announced the removal of the Membership Action Plan requirement, changing Ukraine's membership path to a one-step process.

China slammed the United States for forcing it to accept a 2016 arbitral ruling that dismissed Beijing's claim to much of the South China Sea. The same day, Taiwan – which also has the U.S. as its ally, like the Philippines – said Beijing sent navy ships and a huge group of warplanes around the island nation for a span of two days.

The Philippines is celebrating seven years of winning an arbitration case against China over the latter's South China Sea claims, but the commemoration seems to be overshadowed by controversy surrounding a map depicted in the "Barbie" movie that Vietnam recently banned.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, even if he staged a failed coup last month, won't be jailed by the Kremlin since Vladimir Putin needs his forces, a retired U.S. general said. The Wagner chief's exact whereabouts are still unknown a few weeks after his failed coup.

Thailand's foreign minister met with ousted Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week, he told reporters Wednesday, her first known meeting with a foreign envoy since she was detained following a 2021 coup.

Sen. Tolentino expressed disappointment over the Philippine film and TV regulator's decision to allow the release of "Barbie" in the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin summoned exiled Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to a three-hour meeting five days after the latter's failed rebellion.

A rumor claimed Ukraine attempted to attack a Russian nuclear power plant and a military airfield using 5B28 or British Storm Shadow missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said he would never surrender any of his country's territories to bring an end to the war.

Two years ago, Marta Perdomo and Liset Fonseca were two unassuming Cuban women with little interest in politics and no social media footprint.

In her first speech in parliament as France's riots ebbed this week, far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the government of turning the country into a "hell" that she had foreseen.

A businesswoman and opposition senator with Indigenous roots, Xochitl Galvez has jolted Mexican politics in a bid to replace President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a self-styled champion of the underprivileged.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was spotted in St. Petersburg this week after being exiled to Belarus nearly two weeks ago.

The upgrades to Vladimir Putin's armored train will cost the Russian government at least $74.5 million.

The Kremlin released a report claiming Kyiv is going to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after weeks of Kyiv reporting Russia was going to do the same.

China's Shanghai AI conference kicks off Thursday, but where are the U.S. companies that previously sponsored the event? Some are attending, but only as delegates.