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At least 11 dead in Colombia mudslide
At least 11 people died and 35 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster...
West Ham start Zouma despite cat kicking shame
Kurt Zouma was named in the West Ham starting line-up for Tuesday's Premier League clash with Watford despite apologising for a vi...
Canadian anti-vax truckers inspire copycat protest...
A protest movement by Canadian truckers angered over Covid vaccine rules has become a rallying point for opponents of pandemic res...
Taliban in Geneva for diplomatic, humanitarian tal...
A Taliban delegation was in Geneva on Tuesday for a week of NGO-hosted talks on humanitarian access and human rights, as crisis-be...
US seizes $3.6 bn of stolen bitcoin in record haul
The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 bil...
African migrants face racism, violence in Brazil
The brutal murder of a Congolese man at a Rio de Janeiro beach has cast a harsh spotlight on the ordeals African migrants face in...
West Ham's Zouma apologises for abusing cat in sho...
West Ham and France defender Kurt Zouma has apologised after a disturbing video surfaced of him kicking and slapping a cat, with t...
Burkina prosecutors seek 30 years for ex-leader Co...
Military prosecutors on Tuesday called for a 30-year jail term against Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore for the 198...
Ex-pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness over abu...
Ex-pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for clerical child sex abuse committed on his watch, but aides rejected allegat...
Indonesian croc freed after five years trapped in...
A wild crocodile in Indonesia who was trapped in a tyre for more than five years has been rescued, freed from its rubber vice and...
Australia 'denied access' to citizen detained in H...
Australia has for the last year been denied access to a citizen arrested in Hong Kong, diplomats revealed Tuesday, the latest case...
American lawyer jailed again for assaulting Hong K...
An American lawyer working in Hong Kong lost his appeal Tuesday and was jailed for assaulting a plainclothes policeman when he int...
Iran 'jail restaurant' aims to free bad debt inmat...
Two Iranian ex-prisoners have opened a successful "jail restaurant" to help raise funds to free convicts languishing behind bars f...
In Venezuela, newspaper HQ handed to govt official...
A Venezuelan court has officially handed over the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional to Diosdado Cabello, widely seen as th...
Humanitarian crisis feared as cyclone kills 21 in...
Cyclone Batsirai swept out of Madagascar on Monday after killing 21 people, displacing 70,000 and devastating the drought-hit isla...
Spirit to merge with Frontier, creating major low-...
Budget US carriers Spirit and Frontier announced Monday they will merge to create a competitive low-cost airline, in an industry "...
Morocco buries little Rayan who died trapped in we...
Moroccans on Monday attended the funeral of Rayan, a five-year-old boy who spent five days trapped down a well, sparking a vast re...
Sweden's PriceRunner sues Google for 2.1 bn euros
Swedish price comparison site PriceRunner said Monday it was suing tech giant Google for 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion) for prom...
New report alleges widespread Pegasus spying by Is...
Police used Pegasus spyware to hack phones of dozens of prominent Israelis, including a son of former premier Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Original 'Fight Club' ending restored in China aft...
The original, iconic ending of cult US film Fight Club has been restored to screens in China after a censored version that brought...
Indonesia bus crash kills 13, injures dozens
At least 13 people were killed and dozens more injured after a tour bus carrying factory workers to a beach holiday crashed on Ind...
Morocco to bury 'little Rayan' who died trapped in...
Morocco prepared Monday to bury "little Rayan", the five-year-old boy who died trapped in a well despite a days-long rescue operat...
Ecuador capital flooding toll raised to 28
The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades claimed 28 lives in the capital Quito this week and left 52 people injured, th...
NY's Queens borough offers a world of flavors, eve...
Across ethnically rich New York, you can easily dine on food from 100-plus countries. Or you can just go to the borough of Queens,...
Iraq presidential vote in question after boycotts,...
Doubts hung Sunday over a scheduled parliamentary vote for Iraq's president after the Supreme Court temporarily suspended former f...
Cyclone Batsirai kills 10, displaces nearly 48,000...
Cyclone Batsirai killed at least 10 people and displaced nearly 48,000 when it struck Madagascar overnight, the national disaster...
US-born Chinese skater savaged online after Olympi...
China appeared Sunday to censor an outpouring of social media vitriol against a naturalised US-born figure skater who took a tumbl...
'Act of arson' at S.Africa church where Tutu is bu...
A fire started by an arsonist broke out overnight at the cathedral where South Africa's spiritual father and anti-apartheid hero A...
Tunisian president dissolves top judicial watchdog...
Tunisian President Kais Saied has dissolved a major independent judicial watchdog, he said Sunday, accusing it of bias and working...
Morocco in shock after tragic death of 'little Ray...
Morocco was in shock Sunday after emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well in a tragic end to a pain...
'Golden Dream' turns into nightmare for German por...
The unfinished "Golden Dream" rests quietly in a dock as the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the cruise ship into a nightmare for the...
Australia urges Myanmar to free detained economist
Australia's foreign minister called Sunday for the "immediate release" of economist Sean Turnell, who has been detained by Myanmar...
Honduran president grants amnesty to husband's all...
Honduras' new president, leftist Xiomara Castro, who came to power promising to fight corruption, granted amnesty Saturday to many...
UN's Guterres says expects China to let rights chi...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told leaders in Beijing he expects them to allow UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to...
Cyclone Batsirai closes in on eastern Madagascar
As powerful Cyclone Batsirai closed in on eastern Madagascar on Saturday people sought shelter in more secure concrete buildings w...
Rescuers enter tunnel to free Moroccan boy trapped...
Morocco held its breath as rescue workers on Saturday entered a tunnel leading to a pocket where a five-year-old boy has been trap...
Covid vaccination compulsory in Austria, in EU fir...
It's official: Austrians over the age of 18 must be vaccinated against Covid-19 from Saturday or face the possibility of a heavy f...
Increasing urgency over fate of Moroccan boy stuck...
Moroccan rescuers worked through the night into Saturday, the fifth day of an increasingly urgent and nerve-wracking effort to res...
US panel recommends release of mentally ill Guanta...
American authorities have recommended releasing a mentally ill inmate from Guantanamo Bay and repatriating him to Saudi Arabia, ac...