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A court in Rome has sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years in prison for the aggravated kidnapping of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo 10 years ago
Rescuers carried injured people to safety as firefighters battled blazes after deadly Russian aerial attacks struck apartment buildings, offices and cultural sites in Kyiv, wounding scores and terrifying residents.
Ethiopia's army chief has accused neighboring Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of backing rebel troops in the renewed fighting in the Tigray region
A Turkish court has sentenced a comedian to more than 19 months imprisonment on charges of insulting religious values and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
An American company building the new U.S. Consulate in Milan has agreed to pay millions to compensate foreign workers who earned less than $2 an hour
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has surged past 8,000 as the country struggles with a shortage of health workers
Officials say that Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least six civilians and wounded 53 others from Sunday to Monday
South Korea’s military says a set of explosions that injured three of its officers last week inside the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas were likely caused by North Korean mines
Pope Leo XIV is urging Europe to draw from its Christian roots and traditions of dialogue to confront the thirst for domination driving today's wars
A man has shot and killed his uncle at a school in southern Turkey, raising concerns about safety at educational facilities
South African police say that another woman's body has been discovered in the Ekurhuleni area east of Johannesburg
Flooding in the Thai capital Bangkok has been subsiding, though some neighborhoods and major roads are still unable to clear away water from near-continuous rains over the weekend
Three Australian appellate judges have rejected an activist’s landmark bid to prosecute Britain’s King Charles III over the alleged genocide of Indigenous people
Seoul has demanded an apology after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed what it says was supposed to be a secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea
Rescue teams are searching for a dozen people swept away by an avalanche on a Nepalese mountain
Hungary's Parliament has voted to lift the immunity of three lawmakers, including Prime Minister Péter Magyar
Malaysia is pushing to take durian beyond its roadside stalls and family orchards to convince fans of the spiky fruit that its varieties are worth seeking out
South African authorities have raised the death toll from two weekend mass shootings to 28 after another victim died in hospital
British police have arrested five men on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism and explosives offenses outside RAF Fairford, a base in western England operated by the U.S. Air Force
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned of potential hybrid attacks from Russia on European countries supporting Ukraine, including Poland
Officials say at least 62 people have died after days of heavy rain and flooding in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state
Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic has resigned the post to pursue a bid to become the prime minister in an upcoming early parliamentary election
Supporters of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado have taken to the streets.
Colombian police say they have captured the wife and daughter of Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, a notorious Ecuadorian gang leader
A total of at least 38 people were killed and nearly 30 were wounded in three separate mass shootings in South Africa this week
The Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic resigns to pursue becoming prime minister in an early parliamentary vote
Some of Merz’s conservatives joined the far-right in supporting the move.
UK police say 5 men arrested near a U.S. air base are being held on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act
Two mass shootings hours apart near South Africa’s two largest cities killed at least 27 people, police said
An avalanche has swept a mountain peak in Nepal during bad weather, killing at least two people and leaving 12 others missing
Crime is a key issue in Brazil's upcoming Oct. 4 election
Indonesian rescuers have recovered more bodies from the wreck of a ferry that capsized in the Java Sea two weeks ago
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been in office for two months, and his party seems content for now
Human rights groups in Venezuela said that significant numbers of political prisoners were released in the South American country on Saturday, though a total number of those released has still not been established
