KATHMANDU, Nepal - More than 60 people were killed when a shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said early Saturday. The tremor hit the far west of the Himalayan country late Friday and was measured by the US Geological Survey at just 18 kilometres (11 miles)...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying "crimes against humanity" were being committed in Gaza. Erdogan has strongly supported the Palestinians in the face of Israel's war with Hamas, attending...
THAI NGUYEN, VIETNAM - More than 40 dogs, including a litter of 10-day-old puppies, were set free from a slaughterhouse in Vietnam on Friday after its owner quit the dog meat trade. An estimated five million canines are killed for meat every year in Vietnam -- the second highest in the world...
TEHRAN, Iran - Thirty-two people died when a massive blaze ripped through a drug rehab centre in northern Iran early on Friday, local media reported. "Thirty-two people have been killed in the fire" which erupted at a drug rehabilitation centre in Langarud, a city in the northern Gilan...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - Agence France-Presse's bureau in the Gaza Strip, which has been relentlessly bombed by Israel, was significantly damaged by a strike on the building, according to an AFP staff member who visited Friday. AFP is the only one of the world's three major...
AMMAN, Jordan - Some 5,000 Jordanians protested Friday in the capital Amman, calling on King Abdullah II to press for a ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, AFP correspondents said. Speaking at the demonstration, lawmaker Yanal Fraihat said protesters wanted the king "to...
PARIS, France - France said Friday it had been informed by Israel that its forces had carried out a strike on the French Institute in Gaza, adding it was demanding an explanation. "We were informed by the Israeli authorities that the French Institute in Gaza had been targeted by an Israeli...
PARIS, France - The families of nine Israeli victims of last month's Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for suspected war crimes, their lawyer said Friday. The families also want Hamas prosecuted for genocide, and the ICC to issue an international...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories - Israeli ground troops fighting a war to destroy Hamas had surrounded Gaza City on Friday as top US diplomat Antony Blinken arrived in Israel and declared that the country has right and a duty to defend itself. Israel, meanwhile, began expelling thousands of...
STOCKHOLM,Sweden -- Sweden's coast guard said Thursday the passenger ferry that ran aground last month causing a large oil spill had been safely towed to port without further leaks. The Marco Polo ferry, operated by TT-Line, ran aground south of the southern city of Karlshamn on October 22, with...
BERLIN, Germany -- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday that Kyiv was confident about its quest to open EU membership talks this year, touting reforms it made even in the face of the Russian invasion. Speaking ahead of a conference on Europe in Berlin, Kuleba told reporters...
ATHENS, Greece -- Greek police said Thursday 13 people were arrested after far-right and far-left groups clashed in Athens on the anniversary of the fatal shootings of two neo-Nazis a decade ago. Police had banned gatherings related to the deaths of the two members of the Golden Dawn party and on...
