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A group of 120 millionaires, including Gary Lineker and Brian Eno, have written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham urging him to impose higher taxes on the wealthy to fund public investment and reduce inequality.
A fire in Lima, Peru killed 10 members of the same family, including five children, early Wednesday. Police are investigating whether arsonists deliberately set the blaze at the home in the La Victoria district.
A year after a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a Dhaka school, killing 36 people, families demand the government release investigation findings and implement recommended survivor compensation.
Canada’s dairy supply management system faces scrutiny as the US threatens 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods, citing the policy as unfair to American farmers seeking market access.
Armed gangs killed at least 20 people in attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Zamfara State, part of escalating violence across the country’s northwest and central regions.
Five Thai paramilitary soldiers were killed and six civilians injured in a Wednesday evening attack on a security checkpoint in southern Narathiwat province, with assailants stealing weapons before fleeing.
An opposition leader in a Tunisian prison fainted during an intense heatwave, according to a witness account from another political prisoner’s daughter, raising concerns about detention conditions.
Top US and Russian diplomats met in Manila to discuss the Ukraine war, with Russia reaffirming openness to diplomatic settlement while maintaining demands for territorial concessions.
Indian Prime Minister Modi pledged to establish fast-track courts to punish those involved in exam paper leaks, responding to escalating youth-led protests over irregularities in national medical entrance exams.
More than 2,300 Israeli settlers and far-right group members entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem during a Jewish holiday, marking one of the year’s largest incursions.