No tax for Hungarian women with two children
Hungary on Tuesday passed a law exempting women with two or three children from paying income tax as part of a costly drive to try to reverse population decline.
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India closes airspace to Pakistan aeroplanes
New Delhi closed its airspace to Pakistani aeroplanes on Wednesday after Islamabad banned Indian planes from overflying, the latest tit-for-tat measure as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals spiral into a tailspin.
Israel reopens key roads as firefighting teams battle blaze
Israeli firefighting teams battled wildfires near Jerusalem for a second day on Thursday, with police reporting the reopening of several major roads that had been closed.
Ukraine, US sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Kyiv
The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday signed a minerals deal after a two-month delay, in what President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid.
India to ask caste status in next census for first time in decades
India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics and contentious affirmative action policies...
Russian strikes kill one in Ukraine
Russian strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv overnight left at least one person dead and more than a dozen wounded, authorities said on Wednesday...
Ukraine expects to sign minerals deal with US in a day: PM
Ukraine expects to sign a much-anticipated minerals deal with the United States in a day, the country鈥檚 prime minister Denys Shmygal said Wednesday, as both sides finalised details...
India plans strike after Kashmir attack: Pakistan
Pakistan said on Wednesday it had 鈥榗redible intelligence鈥� that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiralling conflict grew over a deadly attack in Kashmir...
13 killed as sectarian clashes near Damascus spread
Sectarian clashes between forces linked to Syria鈥檚 new authorities and Druze fighters spread overnight near Damascus, leaving 13 people dead, state media and a monitor said on Wednesday...
Both anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim sentiment found at Harvard: reports
Harvard University task forces charged with investigating claims of anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab and Muslim hate reported Tuesday that such prejudice had taken root on campus, urging the college to champion the fight against bigotry...
Trump fires Kamala Harris鈥檚 husband from Holocaust board
US president Donald Trump has removed Doug Emhoff, husband of his former rival Kamala Harris, from the Holocaust Memorial Council board, drawing an angry reaction...