YouTube on April 23 celebrated more than 20 billion videos being uploaded to the platform since the first clip debuted two decades ago. Read full story

(Reuters) - Combined overnight missile and drone attacks killed nine people in Ukrainian capital Kyiv and injured 63, local emergency services said. Read full story

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India has summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, local media reported on Thursday, a day after it announced measures to downgrade ties with Islamabad as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals plummeted following a deadly militant attack in Kashmir. Read full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will hold an election on May 3, and energy security has become a key issue as voters face rising power bills and the prospect of gas shortages. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors have indicted former president Moon Jae-in for alleged bribery, a prosecution office spokesperson said on Thursday, in a case related to the appointment of his former son-in-law at a Thai airline. Read full story

(Reuters) - An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday. Read full story

TUNIS (Reuters) - France on Wednesday criticised the lengthy sentences handed down by a Tunisian court against opposition leaders and businessmen on conspiracy charges on the weekend, saying the conditions for a fair trial were not met. Read full story

(Reuters) - Costa Rica granted 85 migrants, who were deported in February by the Trump administration, a special status that will allow them to freely move within the country, the country's immigration director, Omar Badilla, said on Wednesday. Read full story

HOUSTON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 15.9 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending April 18, 326,000 b/d less than the previous week's average, according to a weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Members of President Donald Trump's cabinet will likely move to limit the influence of Department of Government Efficiency employees and reassert control over budgets and staffing once Elon Musk steps back from DOGE, two government sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Read full story

Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, viewed Instagram as a threat. Read full story

WARSAW (Reuters) - When a rival candidate in Poland's presidential election campaign placed the LGBT community's rainbow flag on Rafal Trzaskowski's lectern during a debate, the liberal frontrunner and patron of recent Warsaw Pride marches quickly took it down. Read full story

(Reuters) - Russia's drone attack on the city of Marhanets in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region killed seven people and injured six others, the regional governor said on social media on Wednesday. Read full story

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S., Ukrainian and European officials meet in London on Wednesday to discuss ending Russia's war in Ukraine but chances of any breakthrough look slim after most foreign ministers pulled out despite U.S. pressure for a deal. Read full story

Apple Inc's new Siri engineering chief is overhauling the management team leading development of the beleaguered voice assistant, taking a step he assured employees would set the company up for success. Read full story

(Reuters) -More than four-fifths of the world's coral reef areas have been affected by devastating mass bleaching spurred by record-high ocean temperatures, turning many once-colourful reefs a ghostly pale hue, scientific authorities said on Wednesday. Read full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's conservative opposition party leader Peter Dutton, trailing in polls related to the May 3 election, has pledged to boost defence spending to 3% of gross domestic product within a decade, as the Trump administration pushes allies to spend more on security. Read full story

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -Twenty-six people were killed and 17 were injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory, police said on Wednesday, the worst such attack in the country in nearly two decades. Read full story

MOSCOW (Bernama-Sputnik/RIA Novosti): US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that 145% tariffs on China are high but believes that they will decrease substantially, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reports. Read full story

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his Saudi Arabia visit on Tuesday (April 22) following a terror attack in the Jammu and Kashmir region. Read full story

ANKARA, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The consumer confidence index in Trkiye decreased 2.3 percent from a month ago to 83.9 points in April, official data showed on Tuesday. Read full story

Transnational organised crime groups in East and South-East Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe in response to increased crackdowns by authorities, according to a UN report issued on April 21. Read full story

Using artificial intelligence, a top basketball team found the right defensive strategy that made the difference to win the NBA championship. Read full story

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Minority coalition partner New Zealand First introduced a bill to parliament on Tuesday that if enacted would define women and men by their biology, preventing trans women and men being recognised by law. Read full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Early voting in the Australian election began on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor party holding a slim lead over the conservative opposition coalition. Read full story

NEW YORK, April 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks stumbled Monday as renewed attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell added to concerns about the central bank's independence. Read full story

QUITO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- At least five people died and six others were injured in an armed attack Sunday night in west Ecuador's coastal city of Manta, local police said Monday. Read full story

(Reuters) - Norway's Queen Sonja, 87, was admitted to the National Hospital on Monday evening for examinations due to shortness of breath, the Norwegian royal court said. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's public approval rating edged down to its lowest level since his return to the White House, as Americans showed signs of wariness over his efforts to broaden his power, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday found. Read full story

An Associated Press analysis of an aviation safety database reveals that drones last year accounted for nearly two-thirds of reported near midair collisions involving commercial passenger planes taking off and landing at the US's top 30 busiest airports. Read full story

(Reuters) -Russia launched missiles and drones targeting Ukraine early on Monday, waking up Kyiv and the eastern half of the country, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin came to an end. Read full story

The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. Read full story

BYRNIHAT, India (Reuters) - Two-year-old Sumaiya Ansari, a resident of India's Byrnihat town which is ranked the world's most polluted metropolitan area by Swiss Group IQAir, was battling breathing problems for several days before she was hospitalised in March and given oxygen support. Read full story

It's a new milestone. While TikTok's future in the United States remains somewhat shaky, the Chinese platform is now the favorite social network among teenagers there. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's leading presidential candidate, Lee Jae-myung, pledged on Monday to revive legislation to curb abuses by controlling shareholders, as part of a plan to boost the stock market and eliminate the so-called "Korea Discount". Read full story

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed a deal to send 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for taking "political prisoners" held by Venezuela. Read full story

ISTANBUL, April 20 (Xinhua) -- The UN Chinese Language Day, established in 2010 and observed annually on April 20, has been celebrated in Trkiye's Istanbul with an event highlighting the beauty and global significance of Chinese culture. Read full story

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine proposes that Russia abandon drone and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. Read full story