Indian navy ships have worked through the night to recover the bodies of 37 people on board a barge that sank off Mumbai as a powerful storm lashed the region

At least seven inmates have been killed, most of them beheaded, in clashes between rival gangs at a prison in western Guatemala, according to officials. Hundreds of police have been

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on trial on charges that his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid was illegally financed, a scandal that has thrown his conservative party into turmoil. Sarkozy,

China will provide COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 40 African countries, describing its actions as purely altruistic in an apparent intensification of what has been described as “vaccine diplomacy.” The vaccines

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has voted, with Republican support, for a commission to investigate the Capitol riot. Thirty-five Republicans defied their party leaders and former President Donald Trump

A senior Hamas official predicted a ceasefire within days even as Israel and Gaza militants pursued their cross-border attacks into an 11th day on Thursday with Israeli warplanes carrying out

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday to press ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, pushing back against calls from the United States to wind down

Migrants, including children, continued to trickle into Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta on Wednesday after thousands crossed over from Morocco in the two days before. The surge of the

As fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants enters its tenth day, efforts to broker a ceasefire continue, but little progress appears to have been made. Israeli fighter jets continued to

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing due to concerns over human rights abuses. While athletes would still participate,

Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories went on strike in a rare collective protest Tuesday as Israeli missiles toppled a building in Gaza and militants in the Hamas-ruled territory

No less than fifty-seven migrants are known to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boat capsized while trying to cross to Europe. The Tunisian Ministry of Defence said

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidance saying that expired Covid-19 vaccines should now be destroyed. This contradicts earlier advice from the head of the Africa Centres for

  Naomi Campbell has announced she is a mother to a baby girl. The 50-year-old supermodel shocked her Instagram followers on Tuesday as she shared a picture cradling her newborn

More than 90 people are missing after a barge off the coast of the Indian city of Mumbai sank following a severe cyclone. The Indian navy said it had rescued

India has reported a record 4,329 fatalities in the past 24 hours as total virus cases since the pandemic began swept past 25 million and the country registered more than

The France-Africa Summit will on Tuesday turn its attention to economies in the African region and how it can fill a financial shortfall of around $300 billion caused by the

Attorneys for Rudy Giuliani say a covert warrant that prosecutors obtained for his Apple iCloud account in November 2019 and a raid last month by agents who seized his electronic

India has reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases, as infections dipped below 300,000 for the first time in weeks. In the last week, the number of new cases

The international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid-19 vaccines is 140 million doses short because of India’s continuing Covid crisis. The Serum Institute of India (SII), the largest single