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Ukraine

Russia 'improves position' in northeast, West lining Putin's coffers

All the latest developments from the Ukraine war.

10/08/2023

World News

Pyrotechnic explosion north of Moscow hospitalises at least 19

The warehouse is privately rented from a factory that makes medical equipment and optical equipment for Russia's security forces.

09/08/2023

Georgia

Rescuers still looking for survivors of a deadly landslide in Georgia

Rescue operations are continuing and the government is investigating any possible violations of safety regulations in the area.

07/08/2023

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At least 30 people dead after a train derailed in Pakistan

As rescue workers continue to search the wreckage of the train, officials say they expect the death toll to rise.

06/08/2023

Portugal

Pope blasts Portugal's Catholic hierarchy for ignoring sexual abuse

The pope said that ignoring the clergy sexual abuse scandal for so long marred the Catholic Church and drove people away from it.

03/08/2023

World News

Devastating fires tear through the Mediterranean region

More than 40 people - most of them in Algeria - have been killed as devastating fires destroy homes, businesses and trigger mass evacuations.

26/07/2023

New Zealand

A gunman in New Zealand kills 2 people ahead of Women's World Cup

A gunman stormed a high-rise construction site in downtown Auckland early Thursday morning, shooting at terrified workers and killing two people as New Zealand prepared to host games in the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament.

20/07/2023

Ukraine

Ukraine war: French missiles, NATO friction, nuclear attack fears

All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine

11/07/2023

Italy

Six dead and dozens more injured in fire at Italian retirement home

Several people have died and dozens more were injured after a fire broke out at a retirement home in northern Italy.

07/07/2023

France

Paris blast leaves one person missing and over 30 injured

An explosion in the French capital, Paris, has left one person missing and over 30 people injured as emergency services try to establish the cause

22/06/2023

Ukraine

Death toll rises to 27 in southern Ukraine flooding

The death toll from the collapse of the Ukrainian Kakhovka dam one week ago continues to rise.

13/06/2023

Spain

Buried with their executioners: Spain Civil War victims to be exhumed

Spain will try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s army buried without identification at the Valley of Cuelgamuros mausoleum.

13/06/2023

World News

The child victims of Russia's war in Ukraine

NGO Save the Children says there is no aspect of Ukrainian children's lives that has not been affected since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

26/05/2023

Guyana

Police in Guyana think school fire that killed 19 girls was malicious

Police in the South American country of Guyana think a fire that resulted in the deaths of 19 schoolgirls in a dormitory was started deliberately.

23/05/2023

Spain

Spain elections re-open deep wounds, as ETA terrorists run for office

EH Bildu, a pro-independence party, has 44 candidates who have been found guilty of terror-related crimes on its electoral lists for upcoming regional elections in Spain. Seven of them were convicted of murder.

19/05/2023

Germany

Two dead after shooting at German Mercedes factory near Stuttgart

A man opened fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southwestern Germany on Thursday, leaving two people dead, the company said.

11/05/2023

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In pictures: The bloody aftermath of Russian shelling in Kherson

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed that Russian perpetrators will be held responsible for targeting civilians on a day 21 people were killed and 48 wounded in Kherson. Shells hit a hypermarket, a hardware store and a railway station.

03/05/2023

World News

World powers pull their citizens as violence roils Sudan

Sudanese families have been massing at a border crossing with Egypt and at a port city on the Red Sea, desperately trying to escape their country's violence.

27/04/2023

Sudan

Sudan army helping evacuations as fighting enters second week

Sudan's army general has said he will help foreigners leave the country. Saudi nationals who had escaped arrived by sea in Jeddah, alongside ships carrying citizens of other countries.

22/04/2023

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WATCH: Mexicans hold earthquake drills amid fears it could become 'reality'

In Mexico, most earthquakes originate in the Pacific Ocean and as the sound of an alarm can travel faster than a seismic wave, it has given way to the development of an alert system in the centre of the country.

20/04/2023