KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said it had struck part of Russia's air defence system in annexed Crimea overnight, as Moscow said it repelled a major attempted missile strike on the peninsula on Monday. Kyiv has increased attacks on the Black Sea peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, since it...
BERLIN, Germany - At least three workers were killed in the northern German city of Hamburg on Monday when a scaffolding collapsed at a building site, with a fourth person believed trapped in the rubble, a fire brigade spokeswoman told AFP. The spokeswoman said a fifth labourer had been...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of playing a "key role" in an anti-Israel riot at an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan on Sunday. Dozens of protesters, many of them chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest), broke through doors and barriers at Makhachkala...
BANDUNG, Indonesia - A dozen Indonesians died and four were in critical condition after drinking illegal bootleg liquor, authorities said Monday, the latest deaths caused by home-made alcohol in the Muslim-majority country. Most Indonesians practise a moderate form of Islam and alcohol is...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories -- Israeli forces killed three Palestinians across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surges across the territory during the ongoing war in Gaza. TOPSHOT - This image taken from the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip...
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday warned the situation in Hamas-ruled Gaza is declining rapidly as he repeated desperate appeals for a ceasefire to end the "nightmare" of bloodshed. "The situation in Gaza is growing more desperate by the hour. I regret that instead...
TOKYO, Japan -- Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating it could be possible for humans to reproduce in space, a group of Japanese scientists said. The researchers, including Teruhiko Wakayama, professor of University of...
PARIS, France -- French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday his government plans to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution to make them "irreversible". In an online post, Macron said a draft project would be submitted to the State Council, France's highest administrative court, this coming...
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan held nationwide mourning on Sunday after 42 people died in a blaze at an ArcelorMittal mine, the worst accident in the Central Asian country's post-Soviet history. Relatives of miners gather outside the Kostyenko ArcelorMittal coal mine building as a rescue...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Victims' families, survivors and activists will hold a mass commemoration in Seoul on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the deadly crush that killed nearly 160 people during Halloween festivities last year. Bystanders pay their respects in front of flowers and notes left...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian forces shot down 36 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula overnight, Moscow's Defence Ministry said Sunday. "On the night of October 29, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using air-type drones against facilities on the...
LAS VEGAS, United States -- Donald Trump used a speech to a Republican Jewish convention Saturday to promise reimposition of a controversial travel ban that targeted a slew of mostly Muslim countries if he gets re-elected. "We will keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country," Trump...
