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A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in Russia’s Far East region, local officials have said. An An-26 plane with 22...

A stream of politicians, ambassadors, world leaders and business people file in and out of former Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s home in Kabul. The...

The Taliban in Afghanistan have been making big strides in grabbing territory over the past few days and weeks particularly targeting the north –...

The threat to the UK from terrorist groups like al Qaeda will grow if allies turn their back on Afghanistan after troops withdraw, Sir...

Cyprus has approached the European Union and Israel for help as a huge forest engulfs villages on the south of the island. At least...

At least 43 migrants have drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they attempted to cross from Libya to Italy, the Tunisian Red Crescent...

At least 19 people are missing after a powerful mudslide swept away rows of houses in the town of Atami, west of Tokyo, Japanese...

The Lombardy region of Italy has recorded no daily coronavirus deaths for the first time in nine months. It was in the northern area...

Authorities in the Philippines have raised the danger level of the Taal volcano after it spurted a huge plume of gases and steam into...

It was a long wait for the Party’s party.  The thousands of people awarded a ticket to Tiananmen Square had left their quarantine hotels...

The spectator who caused a massive pile-up at the Tour de France has been arrested, according to a report by Reuters. A 30-year-old French...

It is unlikely the world “would have been on the verge of World War Three” if Russia had sunk a British warship near Crimea,...

A ‘heat dome’ engulfing Canada and the US states of Washington and Oregon is thought to have caused dozens of deaths, officials said on...

More than 20 million Australians – about 80% of the population – are now under some form of lockdown or COVID-related restrictions as officials...

Rebel forces in Tigray have moved into regional capital Mekelle following the withdrawal of Ethiopian National Defence Force soldiers from the city. The news...

Australians have been warned they face the most “serious crisis” in the COVID pandemic since last February/March as health officials battle to contain new...

France’s far-right have endured another miserable night in the country’s regional elections, with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally failing to win any of the...

A new recording featuring the sound of Mars has been released by China’s space agency. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) released a series...

A Qatari sprinter who won bronze at the 2017 World Championships in London has died at the age of 24, the country’s Olympic Committee...