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Five people are missing and eight others injured after a restaurant with apartments was "completely destroyed" by fire in the Swiss town of Thusis, police have said.Initial investigations indicate the blaze broke out on the second floor and the...

Panama Canal's operator is to cut the number of vessels passing through the key waterway due to low rainfall caused by El Niño.The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) told shipping firms on Thursday that 32 vessels a day will be...

British rapper Yung Filly will face a retrial on three rape charges in Australia, after a jury cleared him of several sexual assault offences but could not reach a decision on others. The YouTuber, whose real name is Andres...

A small plane with eight people aboard crashed in a remote part of western Alaska on Thursday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.The Cessna 441, which took off from Anchorage earlier Thursday crashed about 12:15 p.m. local time, according...

Lee and Chow were also leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance (HKA).The HKA was founded in May 1989 to support students holding pro-democracy rallies. Weeks later, the Communist Party crushed pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square with troops...

QUITO, Ecuador -- The U.S. Treasury on Thursday sanctioned 15 people for their involvement in a network that allegedly shipped thousands of kilograms of cocaine per month from Ecuador through Mexico, destined for the United States.The announcement comes as...

Japan has executed a man who killed five people in a gaming parlour fire in 2009, making this the first time in more than a year that the country has enacted the death sentence.Sunao Takami, 58, had doused the...

A Swiss tourist has been sentenced to one year in prison for insulting a sacred religious event on Indonesia's holiday island of Bali.In a now-removed video, Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26, had filmed himself walking to an empty beach during...

The US has imposed a new round of sanctions on Cuban officials and companies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says.Nine state-owned mining, metal and building firms, the Ministry of Construction and officials connected to a Cuban-based international institute have...

Authorities in Delaware said there is "significant damage" throughout parts of the city of Dover after a "likely" tornado touched down Thursday evening, including numerous downed trees, flooding and other damage.The Dover Police Department, in a social media post,...