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Washington: After the knife attack on the former police officer who was sentenced to a long prison term for the murder of African-American George Floyd new details about the offence have emerged.According to the public prosecutors office on Friday the attacker stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times with a type of knife in the prison library. The offence took place a week ago in a p

New YORK: The UN Security Council has voted in favour of ending its political mission in the civil war-torn country of Sudan.Fourteen of the 15 member states voted in favour on Friday in New York with Russia abstaining the United Nations announced. The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) was established by the Security Council in June 202

dpaDubaiSome 20 countries plan to significantly increase energy production from nuclear power for the benefit of the climate according to a declaration published on Saturday at the UN Climate Change Conference.In the declaration which was signed by France and the United States capacities should be tripled by 2050. Canada Japan Britain

dpaMunichHeavy overnight snowfall paralysed transport connections in the southern German state of Bavaria on Saturday morning leaving thousands of travellers stranded some of them on trains halted by the weather front.Other parts of the country also experienced heavy snow and ice with conditions expected to deteriorate further on Saturday night. At l

US President Joe Biden has welcomed the release of hostages by Hamas including an American woman.Liat Beinin a high school teacher was released by Hamas on Wednesday Biden said.The deal to pause the fighting in Gaza and facilitate the release of hostages a deal the United States worked intensively to secure sustain and extend is now in its sixth day

An extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza war is not enough according to UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres.Negotiations are taking place to prolong the truce which we strongly welcome - but we need a true humanitarian ceasefire Guterres wrote on the social media platform X formerly Twitter.Over the past few days the peo

AgenciesSpains prime minister has expressed doubts that Israel is abiding by international law in its war on Gaza given the high number of civilian casualties there.The footage we are seeing and the growing numbers of children dying I have serious doubt Israel is complying with international humanitarian law Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursda

dpaMoscow At least 13 people have died in a hostel fire in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan according to authorities.The incident took place in the countrys largest city Almaty which is located in the south of Kazakhstan.The state news agency Kazinform reported on Thursday that 13 people were killed. Fifty nine ot

Some 1132 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip have entered the coastal region via Egypts Rafah border crossing since a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said.Since the beginning of the truce until yesterday PRCS staff and volunteers have received 1132 aid trucks via Rafah Crossing the

dpaStuttgartThe ringleader of a far-right German terrorist group that allegedly plotted violent attacks on Muslims in hopes of provoking a civil war is sentenced to six years in prison by a court in Stuttgart.Werner S as he is known due to German privacy rules around criminal defendants was convicted by the court of having founded a terrorist organiza