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The families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip have been racked with worry for their loved ones since the military stepped up ground assaults inside the ...

Thirty-two people were killed and 63 injured on Saturday in a multiple-vehicle collision about 132 kilometres (82 miles) north of Egypt’s capital Cairo, the health ministry said. The collision took place in ...

Russian diplomats on Friday dismissed as lies a White House allegation that Moscow’s military was executing its own soldiers if they refused to carry out battlefield orders in Ukraine. “...

At least 21 people have died in a mine fire in Kazakhstan, ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the local unit of the Luxembourg-based steelmaker which operates the mine, said on Saturday. Of the 252 people ...

By Gabriella Borter The man suspected of killing 18 people and wounding 13 in a shooting rampage in Lewiston, Maine, was found dead of a likely self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, ending ...

By Michelle Nichols The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and demanded aid access to the besieged ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The killing of innocents and of non-combatants cannot be acceptable, and the Hamas attack of October 7, no matter its origins, has been an atrocious war crime. But ...

Consumer Reports said on Wednesday it had found “concerning” levels of lead and cadmium in a third of various chocolate products it tested recently, and called on Hershey (HSY.N) ...

The latest mass shooting in the United States, which killed 18 people in Maine, prompted U.S. Representative Jared Golden, whose constituents died in the massacre, to reverse his opposition to ...

Israel is rejecting calls for respite in Gaza as its closest allies in the West have coalesced around the idea of “humanitarian pauses”, or temporary stops to the bombardment. Growing ...

Projectiles hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns on Friday, sources and officials said, injuring six people and showing the risk of regional spillover from the Israel-Gaza conflict. Israel’s foreign ...

Pope Francis has ordered a review of the Church’s handling of the case of an internationally known religious artist who was expelled from the Jesuit religious order after being ...

A seismic swarm has hit the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland with more than 5,500 small earthquakes in the last three days, raising the prospect of a volcanic eruption, the country’...

A medical team and 10 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, carrying water, food and medicine, a Palestinian border official told Reuters. “This ...

President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for measures to curb the illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition in Russia, including from Ukraine. “We need to think about how weapons and ...

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has renewed worries in energy-poor Japan over its heavy reliance on the Middle East for oil and gas, and the ...

Another eight trucks carrying food, medicine and water are expected to cross into the Gaza Strip on Friday, a senior United Nations official said, as a combination of technical, political ...

British lawmaker Crispin Blunt said he had been arrested in connection with a rape allegation. Blunt, 63, was elected as a member of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party for ...

British watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that it had identified potential “regulatory breaches” in NatWest’s handling of a decision to close former Brexit party leader Nigel ...

The Palestinian Hamas group that controls Gaza cannot release hostages seized during its attack on Israel until a ceasefire is agreed, the Russian newspaper Kommersant quoted a member of a ...

Police in Maine extended their round-the-clock search for suspected Lewiston mass shooter Robert R. Card into the early hours of Friday morning, as the U.S. Army reservist eluded a ...

Two U.S. fighter jets struck weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria on Friday in retaliation for attacks on U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militia as concerns grew that the ...

Britain’s aviation regulator said on Thursday it would increase the amount airlines can be charged for air traffic control services to help national provider NATS recoup costs incurred during ...

The administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has contracted cargo planes to send drones, body armor and helmets to Israel and worked to “get weapons and ammunition to Israel through ...