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Torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides across parts of southern Asia, killing about 700 people. Monsoon rain exacerbated by…

The World Bank says it is lifting a ban on loans to Uganda that it had put in place two years ago when the country passed a draconian new…

A teenage girl has been killed and three students were injured in a stabbing at a private school in western France. The attack took place…

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa's oldest national park, its director has said.…

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped underground for about…

The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-ran West African country, Niger.…

Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of…

Ghana's Supreme Court has unanimously decided to dismiss two legal challenges to new anti-LGBT legislation that has been criticised by…

At least 38 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says, as Israeli troops reportedly…

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has dropped a money-laundering case against a top cryptocurrency executive to allow him to get medical…

Many Israelis cheered and danced on the streets at the news that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar - chief architect of the 7 October 2023 attack…

At least 78 people have died after a ferry capsized on Lake Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just a few hundred metres from…