Huge crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims prayed on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Friday, the climax of the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic forced drastic cuts in numbers for two years. Groups of worshippers, many holding umbrellas against the...
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who ruled Angola for with an iron fist for 38 years, died Friday at a hospital in Barcelona after suffering cardiac arrest, the government said. With "great pain and consternation" the Luanda government posted on Facebook...
He left before Ukrainian foreign affairs minister addressed counterparts
Indonesia: Ukraine war must end and differences resolved through negotiations
Malta's ambassador to Japan joins tributes, hails him as 'great friend of Malta'
James Caan, the US actor best known for playing Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather," has died aged 82, his manager said Thursday. Caan, who also had roles in "Misery," "Thief" and "Rollerball," received an Oscar nomination for his tragic portrayal of a...
Russian president delivers strongest speech since Ukraine invasion
After years of tense relations with Britain, the EU was Thursday seeing hope of improved ties following the resignation of Brexit champion Boris Johnson, though wariness lingered. While the European Commission publicly dodged commenting about the...
The World Health Organisation issued its first situation report on the spread of monkeypox on Thursday, detailing the typical profile of those affected by the outbreak so far. According to available statistics, almost all patients affected thus far are...
Boris Johnson rode his luck throughout his career, bouncing back from a succession of setbacks and scandals that would have sunk other less popular politicians. But the luck of a man once likened to a "greased piglet" for his ability to escape...
The Kremlin said Thursday it hoped that "more professional people" would come to power in Britain after the BBC reported Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative party leader. "We would like to hope that some day in Great Britain more professional...
The Morandi bridge collapsed in 2018, killing 43
'I'm sad to give up the best job in the world', outgoing UK PM tells nation
The heads of MI5 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Wednesday about China's commercial espionage thrust in the West, in a rare joint address at the British intelligence service's London headquarters. Speaking to an audience of officials and...
Swedish police said Wednesday that a woman in her 60s had been killed in a daylight stabbing on the island of Gotland, where the country's top politicians are gathered for an annual event. Just before 2pm (1200 GMT) in central Visby, which is currently...
The number of people killed in an avalanche in the Italian Dolomites rose to nine on Wednesday following the discovery of two more bodies, authorities said. A section of the country's largest Alpine glacier gave way on Sunday, sending ice and rock...
UK ministers in crisis talks with embattled Johnson
The World Health Organisation will reconvene its monkeypox experts to decide if the worsening outbreak now constitutes a global public health emergency, its chief said Wednesday. The UN health agency's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...
Ruling comes into effect on Friday
Trial on collapse of Morandi bridge, where 43 people died, starts on Thursday
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev invoked Wednesday the possibility of nuclear war if the International Criminal Court (ICC) moves to punish Moscow for alleged crimes in Ukraine. "The idea to punish a country that has the largest nuclear...
A 21-year-old man who allegedly opened fire on a July 4 parade in a wealthy Chicago suburb while disguised in women's clothing was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday evening, prosecutors said. Robert Crimo, 21, was arrested on...
Ukrainian officials have called on civilians to urgently evacuate the city of Sloviansk as Russian troops press towards it in their campaign to secure the Donbas region. Sloviansk has been subjected to "massive" Russian bombardment in recent days, with...
Rishi Sunak resigned as chancellor, and Sajid Javid as health secretary
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered two high-profile departures from his government Tuesday, including his finance minister, in the first stirrings of a cabinet uprising after a slew of scandals. Rishi Sunak quit as chancellor of the exchequer and...
The suspected gunman who opened fire on a July 4 parade in a wealthy Chicago suburb planned the attack for weeks and wore women's clothing to aid his escape, police said Tuesday. Robert Crimo, 21, whose family lives in Highwood, just north of Highland...
Two dozen water bombers and helicopters backed by more than 100 firefighters on Tuesday battled a fierce fire threatening one of central Greece's largest olive groves, the fire service said. The wildfire approaching the Amfissa olive grove has already...
Lifts at once bustling Super Saint Bernard ski resort stopped running in 2010
A Norwegian oil and gas industry group said Tuesday that a strike by oil and gas workers, which has already closed three fields, could cut Norway's gas exports by more than half by Saturday. "Almost 60% of gas exports from the Norwegian continental...
The European Parliament on Tuesday ratified landmark laws that will more closely regulate Big Tech and curb illegal content online, as the EU seeks to bring order to the internet "Wild West". MEPs approved the final versions of the Digital Markets...
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