The death toll from a road accident in southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 71 after a vehicle carrying a wedding party veered into a river, a local official  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Slovakia had offered to be a “platform” for possible peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, nearly three years since the launch of Moscow’s  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Azerbaijani and US officials believe a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the deadly crash of an Azerbaijani passenger jet, media reports and a US official said Thursday, as the Kremlin cautioned  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament on Friday and confirmed the expected date for the early general election prompted by the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s government last month. Scholz’s coalition  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh passed away. He breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi at 9:51 pm local time on  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Vedant Patel said, “The United States is encouraging respect for the rule of law in this entire process, as well as respecting the results of the transition to democratic values.”  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Israeli military attacks continue across the besieged Gaza Strip. In the last 24 hours, 77 more Palestinians have lost their lives in these attacks. Another 174 people were injured during  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her family have been accused of embezzling nearly 4 billion from the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Pabna. Tulip Siddique, Sheikh Hasina’s niece and  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       The US Congress averted a government shutdown early Saturday after weeks of negotiations that went down to the wire, as the Senate rubber-stamped a bill passed earlier by the House  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       At least 10 people were killed on Saturday when a bus plunged into a ravine in Iran’s western Lorestan province, state media reported. “Aid and rescue teams have been dispatched