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The president of Taiwan has vowed to do her “utmost” to defend her country from Chinese claims on its territory. Following increasing tensions with...

Tonight, Lebanon has been knocked into darkness. Again. The two state power stations are without fuel, and so the entire country is without electricity....

Lebanon’s electricity grid has shut down entirely after the country’s two main power stations ran out of fuel, according to reports. The al Zahrani...

We met an elderly man amongst the long stalks of sorghum in a valley – and a village – that local people called Alatti....

At least 46 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province,...

The big bold letters painted on a tall building on the main road leading to the dock are the first sign of the health...

Governments are being urged to do what is “morally right” to ensure all countries have enough jabs – as the World Health Organisation set...

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 200 injured after an earthquake in Pakistan. The 5.9-magnitude quake was about 12 miles...

The first vaccine against malaria could be rolled out to billions of people after key advisers to the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave it...

Taiwan’s defence minister has warned that China will be capable of mounting a “full-scale” invasion of the island by 2025. Chiu Kuo-cheng said on...

The Catholic Church in France showed complete and sometimes cruel indifference to people who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy for decades,...

Heading north along Ethiopia’s A2 highway, we quickly noticed that the road had turned into an elongated car park for the country’s military –...

Two more earthquakes have rattled the Spanish island of La Palma amid a fresh surge of lava from an erupting volcano. Part of the...

North and South Korea have reopened their hotlines, around two months after they were cut by the North. At least 49 hotlines have been...

An erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has turned “much more aggressive”, officials have warned, after two further cracks blew open, spewing lava. Amid...

A huge blaze has torn through a Caribbean island resort, ravaging more than 200 homes and businesses and forcing hundreds of residents to flee....

A serial killer who carried out a spate of murders and rapes in and around Paris in the 1980s and 1990s has been revealed...

An erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has blown open a third fissure – sending a fresh river of lava down the mountainside. It...

Australia will start to reopen its international border from November, allowing fully vaccinated travellers into the country. Only Australian citizens and permanent residents will...