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France

Paris blast leaves one person missing and over 30 injured

An explosion in the French capital, Paris, has left one person missing and over 30 people injured as emergency services try to establish the cause

22/06/2023

Ukraine

Death toll rises to 27 in southern Ukraine flooding

The death toll from the collapse of the Ukrainian Kakhovka dam one week ago continues to rise.

13/06/2023

Spain

Buried with their executioners: Spain Civil War victims to be exhumed

Spain will try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s army buried without identification at the Valley of Cuelgamuros mausoleum.

13/06/2023

World News

The child victims of Russia's war in Ukraine

NGO Save the Children says there is no aspect of Ukrainian children's lives that has not been affected since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

26/05/2023

Guyana

Police in Guyana think school fire that killed 19 girls was malicious

Police in the South American country of Guyana think a fire that resulted in the deaths of 19 schoolgirls in a dormitory was started deliberately.

23/05/2023

Spain

Spain elections re-open deep wounds, as ETA terrorists run for office

EH Bildu, a pro-independence party, has 44 candidates who have been found guilty of terror-related crimes on its electoral lists for upcoming regional elections in Spain. Seven of them were convicted of murder.

19/05/2023

Germany

Two dead after shooting at German Mercedes factory near Stuttgart

A man opened fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southwestern Germany on Thursday, leaving two people dead, the company said.

11/05/2023

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In pictures: The bloody aftermath of Russian shelling in Kherson

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed that Russian perpetrators will be held responsible for targeting civilians on a day 21 people were killed and 48 wounded in Kherson. Shells hit a hypermarket, a hardware store and a railway station.

03/05/2023

World News

World powers pull their citizens as violence roils Sudan

Sudanese families have been massing at a border crossing with Egypt and at a port city on the Red Sea, desperately trying to escape their country's violence.

27/04/2023

Sudan

Sudan army helping evacuations as fighting enters second week

Sudan's army general has said he will help foreigners leave the country. Saudi nationals who had escaped arrived by sea in Jeddah, alongside ships carrying citizens of other countries.

22/04/2023

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WATCH: Mexicans hold earthquake drills amid fears it could become 'reality'

In Mexico, most earthquakes originate in the Pacific Ocean and as the sound of an alarm can travel faster than a seismic wave, it has given way to the development of an alert system in the centre of the country.

20/04/2023

Sudan

Sudan's military accuses RSF of violating ceasefire

Sudan's armed forces on Wednesday accused the rival Rapid Support Forces of failing to implement an internationally brokered truce for humanitarian purposes, leading to the continuation of fighting for a fifth day.

19/04/2023

World News

Three UN aid workers killed in fighting in Sudan

The UN’s World Food Programme has temporarily halted its humanitarian work in Sudan after three of its staff members were killed

16/04/2023

France

More bodies found after fiery Marseille building collapse

A building exploded and collapsed early Sunday, leaving mounds of burning debris that hampered rescue operations.

09/04/2023

USA

At least 26 killed after tornadoes rip through Arkansas and Illinois

A monster storm system has torn through the South and Midwest of the United States.

01/04/2023

Portugal

Stabbing that killed two women in Portugal was ‘isolated act’

A stabbing at an Ismaili Muslim centre in Portugal was probably an ‘isolated act’, according to authorities.

29/03/2023

Republic of Ecuador

Fears grow for missing people in Ecuador's massive mudslides

Emergency services are still searching for survivors of Sunday's massive landslide in central Ecuador. Mud engulfed at least 163 homes in the small Andean community of Alausi affecting around 500 people.

28/03/2023

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Watch: Brussel's terrorist victims remembered

Victims of Brussel's deadliest terrorist attack were remembered on Wednesday morning at the seventh commemoration of the event

23/03/2023

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WATCH: Malawi township hit hard by Cyclone Freddy

Residents of the southern Malawi township of Chilobwe are searching for survivors following a mudslide, triggered by Cyclone Freddy.

14/03/2023

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WATCH: Manaus road littered with debris following deadly landslide

At least eight people died on Sunday after a landslide triggered by heavy rains hit a neighbourhood in Manaus, the capital of the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas

14/03/2023