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Heavy rains lashed Alpine regions of Austria and left parts of Vienna under water at the weekend, causing severe damage in parts of the country and disrupting road and rail ...

Three peacekeepers on patrol were “lightly injured” when an explosion occurred near their clearly marked U.N. vehicle in the village of Yarine in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that Ukraine had stationed more than 120,000 troops at its border with Belarus and Minsk had deployed nearly a third of its armed forces ...

Nearly 12% of tested spice samples failed to meet quality and safety standards, according to data obtained by Reuters of tests by Indian authorities after several countries took steps over contamination ...

North Korea condemned Ukraine’s incursion into Russia as an unforgivable act of terror backed by Washington and the West, adding it would always stand with Russia as it seeks ...

Russia on Sunday carried out its third ballistic missile attack on Kyiv this month but preliminary data indicated most of the projectiles wereshot down on approach, the military administration of ...

French actor Alain Delon, who melted the hearts of millions of film fans whether playing a murderer, hoodlum or hitman in his postwar heyday, has died, French media reported on ...

Israeli strikes killed at least 21 people including six children in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian health authorities said, ahead of a visit to the region by U.S. Secretary of State ...

British consumer price inflation increased for the first time this year in July, official figures showed this week, but the rise was smaller than expected as services prices – closely watched ...

Firefighters were battling to contain wildfires in five Turkish provinces on Saturday, the Forestry Minister said, though a blaze in the western Izmir region that broke out on Thursday had ...

Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters were deployed to a fire at Somerset House in central London on Saturday, with clouds of black smoke visible across the city’s skyline. “...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has raised its risk level for mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed the first infection with a new strain ...

Two men on Friday received the longest jail sentences yet over the recent widespread violent disorder in Britain, as prosecutors charged another man with the more serious offence of rioting ...

Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday as medical professionals started a 24-hour shutdown in protest against the brutal rape and murder of ...

Russia’s foreign ministry said Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to destroy a bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk region, killing volunteers trying ...

At least nine people were killed and five wounded by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Nabatieh city in southern Lebanon, state news agency NNA said on Saturday. ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for parties to the conflict in Gaza to provide concrete assurances guaranteeing humanitarian pauses in order for a polio vaccine campaign to ...

Hurricane Ernesto churned towards Bermuda on Friday as a powerful Category 2 storm likely to produce a foot (30 cm) of rainfall over the weekend and trigger life-threatening flooding and storm surges ...

Kamala Harris outlined proposals to cut taxes for most Americans, ban “price gouging” by grocers and boost affordable housing on Friday in her first major economy-focused speech as the Democratic ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it had summoned Italy’s ambassador in Moscow over what it said was “illegal border crossing” by a team of correspondents from ...

A pilot died on Friday after the Fouga Magister jet which he was flying during an airshow in Lavandou, southern France, crashed into the Mediterranean sea, said French authorities. “The ...

Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha were paused on Friday with negotiators to meet again next week seeking an agreement to end fighting between Israel and Hamas and free remaining hostages, ...

A fistfight broke out in Turkey’s parliament on Friday when an opposition deputy was attacked after calling for his colleague, jailed on charges of organising anti-government protests but since ...

Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle ...