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ReutersSana quoted the director of a local hospital as saying it had received bodies, including five from one family. The director said dozens of people had also been injured in the incident.The Syrian foreign ministry said more than 10...

ReutersUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, resigned following an anti-corruption raid on his home.Yermak, 54, has been Zelensky's closest adviser throughout Russia's full-scale war, but has come under increasing pressure over a corruption...

A Tunisian court has handed jail terms to dozens of opposition leaders, lawyers and businessmen accused of attempting to overthrow the nation's president.Forty people including opposition leader Jawahar Ben Mbarek were handed sentences ranging from four to 45 years...

Hong Kong — The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong residential complex climbed to 128 on Friday as more bodies were found in the blackened towers, authorities said. Meanwhile, another eight...

Nick ThorpeBudapest correspondentEPAHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, days before Russia holds talks on a US push to end the war in Ukraine.Orban is seen as one of Putin's closest allies in Europe...

Dijon, France — France on Friday caught one of two detainees who used bed sheets to escape from prison a day earlier after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said. France has some...

Scientists believe they have recorded electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere for the first time, suggesting the planet is capable of lightning.Nasa's Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars in 2021, was sent to search for signs of biology...

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem shared a video on Thursday that it says shows Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinian men who had surrendered during a raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.The video, which...

EPA/ShutterstockVizcarra and Castillo are the latest in a series of former Peruvian presidents to be jailed for misconduct. Ollanta Humala, who served as the nation's president between 2011 and 2016, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to...

Bethany Bell/BBCThe nuns have yet to agree to the conditions."Now it's up to the sisters," Harald Schiffl told APA.The BBC has contacted them for a response.The three nuns have spent much of their lives at Schloss Goldenstein, a castle...