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Iraqis flock to river or ice rink to escape searin...
In the sizzling Baghdad heat, Mussa Abdallah takes to the Tigris river during the day to cool off, while others opt for ice skatin...
Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme...
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshi...
Israel-Hezbollah tensions drive fears of widening...
Fears of a regional war rose Thursday after Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement said none of Israel would be spared in a full-bl...
Rebel Spanish nuns declare schism with Vatican ove...
A community of nuns in a 15th century convent in northern Spain has split with the Roman Catholic Church because of a property dis...
One year on, Honduras prison massacre survivors st...
Samantha still does not know how she survived the slaughter of 46 fellow inmates in a brutal gang battle at Honduras's only women'...
French boys charged with rape of 12-year-old Jewis...
The gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl sparked nationwide outrage in France with President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday condem...
Hezbollah threatens Israel after military says Leb...
Hezbollah on Wednesday said all of Israel would not be spared in the event of war, after Israel said it had approved a plan for a...
French court sentences man over Banksy stencil the...
A French court Wednesday handed a man a two-year suspended jail sentence for using a bucket truck to steal a Banksy stencil from t...
Stonehenge monument sprayed orange in UK climate p...
UK police arrested two people on Wednesday after environmental activists sprayed an orange substance on Stonehenge, the renowned p...
Defying Lula, Brazil's Congress advances conservat...
Brazil's majority conservative Congress has scored a series of victories in recent weeks, advancing bills on touchy cultural battl...
UK police arrest pair after Stonehenge sprayed wit...
UK police arrested two people on Wednesday after environmental activists sprayed an orange substance on Stonehenge, the renowned p...
Loved ones search for missing pilgrims after hajj...
Friends and family of missing hajj pilgrims searched hospitals and pleaded online for news on Wednesday, fearing the worst after h...
Chad ammo depot blaze kills nine, wounds dozens
A fire that tore through a huge military ammunition depot in Chad's capital N'Djamena killed at least nine people and wounded doze...
Fighting in Gaza's Rafah as tensions soar on Israe...
Israeli air strikes and clashes between troops and Palestinian militants rocked Gaza on Wednesday, as Israel's army warned it had...
Central China farmers face crop failures in 'withe...
Farmer Bao Mingchen gestured to a dry pipe where water typically irrigates a patch of crops, the soil now cracked under a drought...
Shootings, raids as global drug gangs hit Spain's...
Heavily armed police officers wearing face masks entered a luxury home at daybreak last week in Spain's southern Costa del Sol to...
Deadly fire at military ammunition depot in Chad's...
A deadly fire erupted late Tuesday at a huge military ammunition depot in Chad's capital N'Djamena, causing weapons to fire into t...
Chinese 'underground bankers' launder Sinaloa drug...
The US Justice Department on Tuesday accused Chinese "underground bankers" of helping Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel launder more than $5...
'Dandy' Pharrell Williams kicks off Paris Fashion...
Paris Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday with hip-hop mogul Pharrell Williams playing on the language of one-world unity as he sta...
Nintendo surprises fans by announcing new 'Zelda'...
Nintendo surprised fans on Tuesday by announcing a new chapter in its 40-year-old "Zelda" saga, one of the Japanese video game gia...
Justin Timberlake arrested, charged with drunk dri...
Pop star Justin Timberlake was arrested and arraigned Tuesday on charges of driving while intoxicated in a chic town east of New Y...
Four dead, over a dozen missing as extreme weather...
At least four people were killed when record rains hit parts of southern China, state media reported Tuesday, while more than a do...
Who will represent Afghanistan at the Paris Olympi...
A gender-balanced team of three men and three women will represent Afghanistan in Paris next month in a symbolic move for the firs...
Philippine court finds four policemen guilty in dr...
Four Philippine policemen were found guilty Tuesday of killing a father and son, court officials said, in a rare case of law enfor...
Gaza rescuers report deadly strikes although clash...
Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 13 people in central Gaza, the civil defence agency in the Hamas-run territory said, al...
Court finds four Philippine police guilty in drug...
Four Philippine policemen were found guilty Tuesday of killing a father and son, court officials said, in a rare case of law enfor...
US governor pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions
The governor of the US state of Maryland issued a mass pardon of drug offenses on Monday, in a far-reaching move forgiving 175,000...
Adidas shares slide following China corruption cla...
Adidas shares slid Monday as the German sportswear giant said it was investigating alleged bribery in China after senior employees...
Search for dozens feared missing after deadly migr...
The Italian coastguard searched off southern Italy Monday for survivors or the bodies of dozens of migrants feared missing, after...
Hajj pilgrimage ends amid deadly Saudi heat spike
Saudi Arabia on Monday warned of a temperature spike in Mecca as Muslim pilgrims wrapped up the hajj in searing conditions, with m...
French court to try rugby stars in gang rape case
The trial of a group of rugby players accused of gang raping a student after a 2017 match by leading French team Grenoble was to o...
Eight killed in India train crash after driver mis...
At least eight people were killed in India on Monday when a goods train driver missed a signal and slammed into an express passeng...