A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party in next month’s European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city
Afghanistan’s diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resigned
Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week
Pakistan's national weather center says the country has recorded its wettest April since 1961
Hamas said it was sending negotiators to talks in a "positive spirit" after studying the latest proposal.
A Chinese truck driver has been praised in local media for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people
Egyptian state media say a delegation of the Hamas militant group arrived in Cairo and that there has been “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks with Israel, though an Israeli official downplayed the prospects for a truce
London takes center stage as the counting of votes is underway in the capital city’s mayoral contest, a day after Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered a drubbing in local election results
Tanzania’s power distributing company has announced a major blackout for most parts of the country due to the power grid's failure ahead of approaching Cyclone Hidaya
The procession of “Epitaphios," symbolizing the bier that carried the body of Jesus to his grave, took place across Greece on Friday, which was Good Friday in the Orthodox Christian calendar. The solemn processions, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square. The city of Nafpaktos, in western Greece, is one such city. Once part of the Byzantine...
South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops
Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
Mexican officials say 3 bodies found in Baja California area where 2 Australians and American went missing
South and Southeast Asian countries have been coping with a weekslong heat wave rendering record high temperatures that have posed a severe health risk. Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, and schools in Cambodia have been cutting back their hours. In the Philippines, India and Bangladesh, officials have told students to stay home and do their lessons remotely. In April, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned...
The celebration of pop is set to take place amid protests at Israel's involvement in the competition.
At least nine people are killed in an attack on a camp in eastern DR Congo.
Mexican forensic examiners are at a remote site in Baja California where three bodies were reportedly found
It is alleged the couple accepted money from an Azerbaijani government-run oil firm and a Mexican bank.
Israeli authorities said they were investigating the death of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Adnan Al-Bursh.
A military court in eastern Congo has sentenced eight soldiers to death for cowardice and other crimes linked to fleeing the battlefield, as the government struggles to contain violence and attacks in the mineral-rich area where many armed groups operate