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Yagi, Asia's most powerful storm this year, has killed more than 60 people since it made landfall in Vietnam.
A Lebanese judge has ruled that the country’s former central bank chief will remain in jail while facing charges of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from state coffers
An Omani state-run oil and gas company says it will make an initial public offering of its exploration and production business, potentially seeking billions in a major move toward privatization in the sultanate
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon
Officials say a roadside bomb has hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six officers and three civilians
China's Defense Ministry has announced joint naval and air drills with Russia starting this month, underscoring the closeness between their militaries as Russia presses its grinding invasion of Ukraine
A South Korean truth commission says it found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities where thousands of so-called “vagrants” were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to t...
A van apparently packed with migrants veered off a road and hit a lamp post in Croatia while speeding to escape police, injuring 14 people
Storm deaths in Vietnam rise to 59 and flooding sweeps away a bus carrying 20 people, state media report
A bridge has collapsed as more rain falls on northern Vietnam from a former typhoon that caused landslides, flooding, power outages and at least 21 deaths
Syrian state media says the number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 14 with more than 40 wounded
The Israeli military has not commented on the strikes on a number of military sites around Masyaf.
Pope arrives in East Timor on his first trip to the deeply Catholic country after two decades of independence
Pope Francis has arrived in East Timor to encourage its recovery from a bloody and traumatic past and celebrate its development after two decades of independence from Indonesian rule
If invading Russians seize this vital transport hub, Ukraine could lose the entire Donetsk region.
Acute malnutrition, which has ravaged Afghanistan for decades, has reached an unprecedented level.
The players have names like José and Antonio and grew up in a South American nation near Antarctica
Regulators have successfully argued Google is too powerful in search - now they are coming for its ad tech.
Jannik Sinner holds off a late charge from American Taylor Fritz to win the US Open and secure his second Grand Slam title.