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Germany, Sweden arrest eight over Syria crimes aga...
Investigators in Germany and Sweden on Wednesday arrested eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government...
Bhole Baba: preacher at centre of Indian stampede...
Former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba built an immense following among poor and marginalised Indians before his lates...
France prosecutors request rape charges against fi...
French prosecutors have requested prominent arthouse film director Benoit Jacquot be charged with raping actors Isild Le Besco and...
Schumacher blackmail suspects had 'family photos'
Two men accused of trying to blackmail relatives of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher had access to private family photos, Ger...
Six dead as floods inundate vast swath of India, B...
Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inu...
Japan's top court rules forced sterilisation law u...
Japan's top court ruled on Wednesday that a defunct eugenics law under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilised between...
Tourists seek out Nordic holidays to keep cool
Far from her home in the tourist mecca of Tenerife, Cati Padilla is one of the growing number of travellers escaping heatwaves for...
Terror, 'chaos' as India stampede kills 121
Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in over a decade on Wednesday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded...
Terror, 'chaos' as India stampede kills 116
Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in over a decade on Wednesday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded...
US Supreme Court takes on porn age-verification ca...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to a law in Republican-led Texas that requires pornographic websites to...
French police release filmmaker, prepare to charge...
French authorities are preparing to press charges against a leading arthouse film director but released another one following day-...
116 killed in stampede at India religious gatherin...
At least 116 people were crushed to death at an overcrowded Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, government off...
107 killed in stampede at India religious gatherin...
At least 107 people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, with many others injured, a...
French police question two filmmakers over alleged...
French authorities on Tuesday were questioning two leading arthouse film directors for a second day after actors accused them of s...
Judi Dench among first woman members of UK's Garri...
Veteran actors Judi Dench and Sian Phillips have become the first woman members of London's esteemed Garrick Club after it voted i...
Israel pounds Gaza after evacuation order
Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after the army again ordered Palestinians...
Sinkholes spread fear in Turkey's parched breadbas...
Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Sik drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at a...
Graft trial starts for Peru's Keiko Fujimori
Three-time Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was in the dock Monday for the start of her trial on graft charges that...
Supreme Court rules on Trump immunity claim, delay...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that wil...
Nepal jails 'Buddha boy' for 10 years over child s...
A Nepali court on Monday sentenced a man whose followers believe him to be a reincarnation of Buddha to 10 years in prison for chi...
Supreme Court rules on Trump immunity, delaying tr...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that wil...
Israel strikes Gaza as militants claim rocket barr...
Israeli forces struck southern Gaza's main city Monday after a rocket barrage claimed by militant group Islamic Jihad, and as shel...
Meta risks fines over 'pay for privacy' model brea...
The EU accused Facebook owner Meta on Monday of breaching the bloc's digital rules, paving the way for potential fines worth billi...
Crowd control at Japan's Mount Fuji as hiking seas...
Mount Fuji's summer climbing season begins on Monday with new crowd control measures on the Japanese volcano's most popular hiking...
Greece fights dozens of wildfires in 'most difficu...
Firefighters were battling a series of wildfires near the Greek capital Athens on Sunday afternoon, as the country braces for anot...
Greece fighting dozens of wildfires braces for wor...
A large wildfire broke out southeast of Athens on Sunday afternoon, amid warnings that the worst of the summer heat is yet to come...
One dead, five injured in France wedding hall atta...
One person was killed and five others wounded in northeastern France when several masked gunmen opened fire at a wedding ceremony,...
Mexico celebrates Pride as Costa Rica fires minist...
More than 100,000 people rallied for LGBTQ rights in Mexico on Saturday, while Costa Rica's culture minister was sacked for suppor...
Crossbow attacker killed outside Israeli embassy i...
A Serbian police officer killed a man who shot him in the neck with a crossbow in front of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Satu...
Panamanian court acquits 28 defendants in 'Panama...
A Panamanian court on Friday acquitted 28 people charged with money laundering in connection with the now-defunct law firm Mossack...
Planting giant cactus to stave off desertification...
Giant spiky cacti tower over farmer Alcides Peixinho Nascimento, 70, one of the residents of Brazil's unique Caatinga biome who is...
US Supreme Court ruling curbs power of federal age...
The conservative-majority US Supreme Court struck down 40 years of legal precedent Friday, curbing the power of federal agencies t...