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A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding in northern Iraq has killed more than 100 people and injured 150 others, and authorities warn the death toll could rise.
- Researchers have verified 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since the cease-fire there
- Mandela’s granddaughter Zoleka dies at 43. Her life was full of tragedy but she embraced his legacy
- Swiss prosecutors indict an ex-employee of trading firm Gunvor over bribes paid in Republic of Congo
- Latest talks between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt over mega dam on the Nile end without breakthrough
- Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks and insurers while building real estate empire
- How did the Maui fire spread so quickly? Overgrown gully, stubborn embers may be key to probe
- California governor signs law raising taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school safety
- Lahaina family finds cherished heirlooms and devastation in first home visit after deadly wildfire
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Azerbaijan’s health ministry says a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and over 500 were wounded during its offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh last week.
Police say a shell of a rocket launcher has apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern Pakistan, killing eight people, including women and children.
Shares in Asia are mostly higher, shrugging off a sharp decline on Wall Street that took benchmarks back to where they were in June.
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is due in court to answer to federal charges alleging the Democrat used his powerful post to secretly advance Egyptian interests and carry out other favors for New Jersey businessmen in exchange for bribes of cash and gold bars.
The Biden administration has suspended most non-humanitarian aid to Gabon after a military takeover in the country last month that was at least the second this year in an African nation.
A suspended New York City police officer who had been accused of spying for China — and later cleared — is fighting to be reinstated.
Canadian fashion mogul lured women and girls to bedroom suite at his Toronto HQ, prosecution alleges
Canadian prosecutors say former fashion mogul Peter Nygard leveraged his wealth, assets and status over several years to lure young women and girls to a top-floor bedroom suite at his company’s Toronto headquarters where he forced himself on them.
As many as a dozen bodies have been found scattered around the northern Mexico industrial hub of Monterrey and its suburbs.
Cuba’s ambassador to the US says Molotov cocktails thrown at Cuban embassy were a ‘terrorist attack’
Cuba’s ambassador to the United States says an incident in which at least one incendiary device was thrown into the Cuban embassy compound was a “terrorist attack.”
The Vatican’s top diplomat is urging world leaders to put a pause on lethal autonomous weapons systems for long enough to negotiate a legally binding agreement on them.
Unions representing Nigeria’s government workers have announced they will go on strike starting next week to demand pay raises and to protest the austerity measures of the country’s newly elected government.
The U.N.’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid.”
Donatella Versace slammed the Italian government for what she described as anti-gay policies in a heartfelt and personal speech that referenced her late brother, Gianni Versace, while receiving a fashion award this weekend.
Sophia Loren is expressing gratitude for all the affection she is feeling following surgery after she fractured a hip and thigh bone in a fall.
Amid the electric ambiance of strobe lights and an usually sweltering Parisian fall, Dior presented its spring/summer 2024 womenswear collection.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have arrested an immigration agent after he was accused of raping a Haitian woman in a detention cell at the country’s main international airport in the presence of her 4-year-old son.
Thousands of Nagorno-Karabakh residents are fleeing their homes after Azerbaijan’s swift military operation to reclaim control of the breakaway region.
Britain’s immigration minister has argued Tuesday that international refugee rules must be rewritten to reduce the number of people entitled to protection.
Job alert! Paris Olympics are looking for cooks, security guards and others to fill 16,000 vacancies
Paris Olympics organizers and their partners have set up a giant job fair meant to help fill about 16,000 vacancies in key sectors including catering, security, transport and cleaning, 10 months before the opening of the Games.
The foreign minister of Belarus says he can’t envision a situation where his country would enter the war in Ukraine alongside Russian forces.
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, as well as the current leader of Colombia’s powerful Clan del Golfo criminal enterprise.
The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons is resigning for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president.
The European Court of Human Rights says that the rights of a Turkish teacher convicted of terrorism offences were violated because the case was largely based on his use of a phone app.
UEFA has made two moves toward partially reintegrating Russia into European soccer despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.
A rights group says Egyptian authorities have detained at least 73 people campaigning for a challenger to incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in the December election.
The Spanish soccer federation has been stripped of hosting the next annual meeting of European governing body UEFA.
A top European Union official says the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation.
Chinese gymnast Zhang Boheng won the men’s all-around title at the Asian Games and put himself up as a name to watch at next year’s Paris Olympics.
Emergency services say eight people including four children have been killed by electrocution in two separate events after days of heavy rain caused floods in impoverished informal settlements near the South African city of Cape Town.
Greece’s minister for migration says the government is planning a major regularization program for migrants to meet pressing demands in the labor market despite a recent increase in illegal arrivals.