A man looks over Libya's eastern city of Soussa on September 21, 2023, days following deadly flash floods. The official death toll from the disaster stands at more than 3,300 -- but the eventual count is expected to be far higher, with international aid groups giving estimates of up to 10,000...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A fire at a golf ball factory in Taiwan killed at least six people, three of them firefighters who died in an explosion, authorities said Saturday. The fire, which began Friday evening and raged all night, injured more than 100 people, most of them workers, the Pingtung county...
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has executed long-time death row prisoner Le Van Manh, a lawyer confirmed Saturday, despite international pleas to spare his life. In 2005 Manh was charged with robbery, as well as the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in the northern Thanh Hoa province. The...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -A landslide tore apart a stretch of motorway in Sweden on Saturday, injuring three people, police and emergency services said. It ripped up a petrol station car park, overturned lorries and caved in the roof of a Burger King restaurant. Three people were taken to hospital...
MARSEILLE, France - Pope Francis on Saturday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France's Mediterranean port of Marseille. The...
KANO, Nigeria - Gunmen have kidnapped more than 30 people, including at least 24 female students, in a raid in and around a university in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, residents said Saturday. Dozens of gunmen from criminal gangs called bandits stormed Sabon Gida village on the edge of a...
LONDON, United Kingdom - British police on Friday released new pictures and renewed their appeal for information into the death of a 10-year-old girl, whose father will face trial for her murder. Sara Sharif's body was discovered at her family's home in southern England on August 10. A post-mortem...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Ukrainian missile attack Friday struck the headquarters of Moscow's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea, leaving one missing and sparking a fire in Kyiv's latest assault on the peninsula. The Ukrainian army claimed responsibility for the strike, saying it took place at around 0900...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South African poultry farmers have warned of possible chicken and egg shortages as they battle what the industry says is the worst bird flu outbreak ever to hit the country. Producer Quantum Foods said on Friday that this year it had lost almost two million chickens --...
Pope Francis headed Friday to Marseille for a two-day visit focused on the Mediterranean and migration, bringing a message of tolerance amid bitter debate over how Europe manages asylum seekers. Marseille was decked out in the yellow and white colours of the Vatican for the first visit by a pope to...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States and China on Friday announced two new working groups on economic and financial policy, in the latest effort to stabilize fraught relations between the world's biggest economies. The formation of the groups was agreed during talks in July between US...
BENGHAZI, Libya - Libya's eastern-based administration said on Friday that it would host an international conference next month in the flood-hit port city of Derna to aid reconstruction efforts. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing dams upstream from Derna after a hurricane-strength...
