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Belgium's Prince Laurent has legally recognised 26-year-old former car salesman Clément Vandenkerckhove as his son and heir.Vandenkerckhove, the result of a relationship between the royal and Belgian singer Wendy Van Wanten, was quietly brought into Prince Laurent's family at...

A former Zambian minister was killed in last week's raid by security forces on a house linked to opposition leader Brian Mundubile a day after the presidential election, the authorities have said.A police spokesman said Mutotwe Kafwaya was fatally...

Seoul — North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles, Seoul's military said Thursday, hours after President Trump said he would meet again with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un later this year. The latest launches by...

A Texas judge is set to hear arguments Thursday on whether Karmelo Anthony should get a new trial, two months after a jury convicted and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing a fellow student at a high...

Four workers in Japan have died after being struck by a train at Shin-Kanuma Station, north of Tokyo, authorities say.The collision happened around 10:46 local time (01:46 GMT) while the workers were removing weeds from the train tracks, local...

LONDON -- A "massive" Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on Wednesday night killed at least 12 people and injured more than 40 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media on Thursday."Throughout the...

Venezuela’s new petroleum minister sees her South American home not as a dilapidated former oil giant, but as an emerging energy economy ripe for U.S. and foreign investments in new oil and gas exploration, both onshore and offshore.Paula Henao,...

Outlining why Patterson's crime was so "dreadful", they talked of the "betrayal of trust" of family members whom she had invited for lunch. It was, they said, the culmination of a plan she had "orchestrated " for months, including...

A wave of overnight Russian missile strikes has killed at least eight people in the capital Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian authorities say.Apartment blocks and warehouses were targeted in the "massive attack" on Thursday, according to the State...

The founder of Evergrande, the property giant at the centre of China's housing market slump, has been sentenced to life in prison and had all of his personal property confiscated.Hui Ka Yan pleaded guilty in April to several charges,...