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Polish authorities are working to bring home people who were injured on the weekend when a bus carrying Polish pilgrims heading to a popular Catholic shrine crashed in Croatia, killing 12 people

France is in the midst of its fourth heat wave of the year as the country faces what the government warned is its worst drought on record

South Africa’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine and the adverse effects of the conflict on African countries are expected to feature in a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and South Africa’s Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor on Monday

Demonstrators blocked roads as protests broke out in southern Iraq on Monday after power outages left many without electricity during scorching peak summer heat

Efforts to feed a dangerously thin Beluga whale that has strayed into the Seine River in France have failed so far

The death of Omar Khalid Khorasani dealt a potentially serious blow to peace talks being negotiated between his extremist group and Pakistani officials with assistance from senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.

Efforts to extinguish a fire at an oil facility in Matanzas, Cuba, have so far been unsuccessful. Flames erupted Sunday night, leaving residents in a state of panic.

Pakistani officials and militant figures say that a late night roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan struck a vehicle carrying several members of the Pakistani Taliban group, killing a senior leader and three other militants traveling with him

Authorities say a French woman has been injured when attacked by a polar bear in Norway’s remote Arctic Svalbard Islands

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that engulfed a covered wooden bridge with 900 years of history in southeastern China over the weekend

The maneuvers have sent tensions in the Taiwan Strait to their highest level in decades, threatening shipping routes and trade.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded that IAEA international inspectors be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to assess damages.

A Japanese sailor has been attacked in the Solomon Islands during a World War II memorial service that was also attended by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman

In Kenya’s tight presidential race between Raila Odinga and William Ruto, a Kenyan hip-hop genre called gengetone has been an ever-present soundtrack.

Chad’s military government and some rebel groups fighting in the country have signed a pledge in Qatar ahead of planned national reconciliation talks later this month in the African nation

Iranian state media are reporting that police arrested an Afghan man suspected of stabbing 10 other farm laborers to death following a quarrel over land

As hundreds of millions around the world bore the brunt of surging prices at the pump, five oil giants — BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and TotalEnergies — made $55 billion this past quarter.

Top negotiators in renewed talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal say they’re optimistic about the possibility of an agreement

Extreme heat is paralyzing Iraq, forcing power shutdowns as authorities extend public holidays to protect employees from 125-degree temperatures.

“This time a nuclear catastrophe was miraculously avoided, but miracles cannot last forever,” Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom said Sunday.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm

Police have detained dozens of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir as they dispersed Shiite Muslims who attempted to participate in processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram

A London museum has agreed to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come under pressure to repatriate artifacts acquired during the colonial era

Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they´ll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

A Haitian official says a former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor has been killed in an upscale neighborhood near Haiti’s capital and his body set on fire along with his nephew

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his three-nation tour of Africa with his arrival in South Africa on Sunday

A Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukrainian embassy say the scheduled arrival of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine and cross the Black Sea under a wartime deal has been delayed

Israel said it killed Khaled Mansour, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official, after a similar air strike against Tayseer Jabari.

Oksana Pokalchuk’s resignation comes after Amnesty International released a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians.

The shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine highlights the potential for “catastrophic consequences”

China announced additional live-fire drills in the Bohai and Yellow Seas, as Beijing broadcasts its fury over a visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pakistani police say gunmen shot dead four people including two police in the country’s northwest in an attack targeting a provincial lawmaker from former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party

Colombia’s first leftist President will be sworn into office on Sunday, in a colorful ceremony that marks a turning point in the South American nation’s history

A bombing in the heart of Kabul’s Shiite minority community Saturday killed at least two people and wounded 22.

A Washington Post review of satellite imagery, videos, and interviews with former detainees and experts casts doubt on the Russian claim that a Ukrainian HIMARS-launched attack killed at least 50 people at a prison on the outskirts of Olenivka on July 29.

The International Atomic Energy Agency director general urged Russia and Ukraine to allow a mission of experts access to the facility to help secure it.

A Canadian jury has found a Dutch man guilty of extortion, harassment and other charges related to a case of a Canadian teenager who was blackmailed to expose herself in front of a webcam

Few are brave enough to seek the true toll as the number of war dead is a state secret.

Brazil’s Federal Police have arrested three more suspects in a case arising from the slaying of a journalist and an Indigenous expert in the remote western reaches of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in June

The eastern Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis has elected a new prime minister after holding snap elections three years earlier than planned

The Taliban say a bomb went off in a minority Shiite neighborhood in the Afghan capital, killing at least two people and wounding 22 others

He led the oil-rich state of Abu Dhabi and was the second president of the United Arab Emirates.

A court in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, began hearings Friday in the case against Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, the first Russian soldier to go on trial for alleged war crimes. He is accused of shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian civilian in late February.

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The highly anticipated decision concerned three separate cases in which men consumed drugs and then committed violent offenses.

A court in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, began hearings Friday in the case against Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, the first Russian soldier to go on trial for alleged war crimes. He is accused of shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian civilian in late February.

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