An elevated metro line collapsed in the Mexican capital on Monday, leaving at least 20 people dead and dozens injured as a train came crashing down, authorities said. Carriages were seen hanging from the overpass in a tangle of twisted cables with the...
At least 25 people, including at least one police officer, were killed in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday in a shootout during a police raid targeting drug traffickers in the city's Jacarezinho neighborhood, according to civil police. It was the highest-ever...
Eleven people have been killed and four are in hospital after a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the emergency services ministry. There were conflicting reports about the situation, with some...
China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space programme. China’s first Mars landing follows its launch last month of the main section of what will be a permanent space station and a mission that brought back...
Zinedine Zidane has denied already telling his players he will resign as Real Madrid coach at the end of the season. Zidane was asked again about his future after Madrid’s 1-0 victory away at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, a win that keeps them two points...
Authorities urged people to stay indoors as huge waves battered the city’s seafront. At least 21 people were dead and 96 were missing on Tuesday after a monster cyclone slammed into western India, compounding the misery for millions of others who are...
US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as violence continues. Israeli jets kept up a barrage of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Monday evening, as a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people...
Emmanuel Macron and Felix Tshisekedi Several Africa leaders landed in Paris on Monday for the Africa Finance Summit set for Tuesday and Wednesday. Among the arrival were several heads of states like Presidents Kagame of Rwanda, Buhari of Nigeria, Dennis...
At least 2,700 migrants, some 1,000 of them minors, reached Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, Spanish officials said, a record in a single day. A spokesman for the Spanish government delegation in Ceuta said the numbers arriving on Monday...
European Union foreign ministers say a longer-term political solution must be found to end decades of conflict European Union foreign ministers called on Tuesday for a ceasefire to end days of heavy fighting between the Israeli armed forces and Palestinian...
'To all those working on the vaccine rollout - thank you for everything you've done,' he said. Britain's Prince William, who contracted Covid-19 last year, revealed on Thursday he had received his first dose of a coronavirus vaccine. William, 38, the...
The indictment is based on findings by a board of experts into Maradona's death from a heart attack last year Seven people under investigation over the November death of Argentine footballing legend Diego Maradona face charges of premeditated murder,...
A statement from Israeli Cabinet said the truce was proposed by Egypt and will be mutual and unconditional Israel and Hamas will cease fire across the Gaza Strip border at 2am on Friday, a Hamas official said, bringing a potentially tenuous halt to the...
The group is set to propose the new name on May 28 during a shareholders’ general assembly. French group Total, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, is preparing to change its name to TotalEnergies to signal its diversification towards cleaner...
Humanitarian convoys arrive as Gazans take stock of the damage from 11 days of intense fighting. Thirteen truckloads of cargo for UN agencies and their partners entered Gaza Friday and $18 million in aid allocated after the Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire...
The plan aims at vaccinating at least 40 per cent of the world's population by the end of 2021 The IMF on Friday proposed a $50 billion plan to end the Covid-19 pandemic, with a target of vaccinating at least 40 per cent of the world’s population by...
More than 200 people were injured in Malaysia on Monday when two metro light rail trains collided in an underground tunnel close to the Petronas Twin Towers in the capital Kuala Lumpur, officials said. The incident occurred at around 8.45 p.m. (1245 GMT)...
Torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo with little warning, leaving at least 15 people dead amid the chaos and destroying more than 500 homes, officials and survivors said Sunday. The eruption of mount...
Bah Ndaw, Mali's interim president, at his Inauguration ceremony in Bamako, Mali, on September 25, 2020 Soldiers in Mali have detained the president and prime minister of the interim government, according to the United Nations and the African Union,...
A year after his death from COVID-19, residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they remain grateful to the doctor who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak before it received official recognition. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in...
Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori said on Tuesday that Japan would hold the Summer Olympics regardless of the situation with the Covid-19 pandemic and was working closely with the International Olympic Committee to make them happen. “We will hold the...
Congo-Brazzaville qualified for the main round after finishing second in Group B, behind DR Congo and ahead of third-place Niger and Libya, who finished bottom of the group. they were put in the same group as DR Congo, Niger and Libya, their first game...
Congolese President Denis Sassou N'Guesso said on Saturday he would seek re-election in March, formally accepting the ruling party’s nomination to be its candidate. The announcement came during his working stay in the Niari department in southern Congo,...
The head of the IMF on Friday urged advanced economies to provide more resources to low-income countries, warning of an emerging “Great Divergence” in global growth that could risk stability and trigger social unrest for years to come. International Monetary...
An apartment building in Cairo partially collapsed overnight, killing at least three people, Egyptian officials said on Monday. By late morning, rescue workers were still searching for possible survivors trapped under the rubble of the two-story building...