Israel has launched air raids on Syria, aiming at locations near the government-held city of Homs, but Syrian air defences downed most of the missiles, according to a state media report. The SANA news agency, quoting an army statement early on Sunday, said the missiles flew over parts

Russia has launched an overnight drone attack on Kyiv after a 12-day break, according to a senior Ukrainian official, with air defence systems preliminarily destroying all targets on their approach. “Another enemy attack on Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, a colonel general who heads

Police and rioters have clashed in the French city of Marseille as the country battles with a fifth night of unrest after the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range. Videos show police using tear gas, as officials say at least 56 arrests have been made in the southern

The UN Security Council ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali after the ruling military demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling an armed rebellion “without delay”. The end of the operation, known as MINUSMA, follows years of tensions and

At least 48 people have been killed when a truck apparently lost control and rammed into other vehicles and pedestrians at a busy junction in western Kenya. “So far, we can confirm 48 dead and we are suspecting one or two are still trapped under the truck,” local police

A tyre blowout caused a bus to lose control and crash into a road divider before bursting into flames, killing at least 25 people in western India, police told local media. Police officer Sunil Kadasne told the Press Trust of India news agency that 33 people were on the bus when the

A Florida murder suspect who featured thrice on America's Most Wanted was arrested after nearly four decades on the run. Donald Santini, 65, allegedly used 13 aliases to evade arrest for the 1984 murder of a 33-year-old Florida woman, authorities said. He was serving as the

Mostly young rioters have clashed with police and looted shops in a fourth day of violence across France, while unrest was also reported in some French overseas territories, following the police killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic check earlier this week. Some 45,000 police

Despite the tragic incident involving the ill-fated Titan submersible that resulted in the loss of all five passengers, OceanGate, the company responsible for operating the vehicle, continues to offer future expeditions to the Titanic shipwreck on its website.  Promoting trips

The government said it would deploy 2,000 riot police to deal with any unrest, a day after a 17-year-old was shot in the chest by a police officer who then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing. The shooting had already sparked unrest in several Paris suburbs

Some 64 flights were cancelled at Geneva's international airport on Friday, it said, after operations were halted for four hours because of a strike by workers at the start of the busy summer travel season. "Because of the social action... the direction decided a temporary

A deep orange-brown sun shined through hazy skies as smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across North America and beyond, choking millions of people and triggering severe air quality alerts. Here's why the fires are so smoky and why people should be concerned. Why is there so

Unrest continued in France for a second night as security forces deployed in their thousands to quell protests over the killing of a 17-year-old by police, which French President Emmanuel Macron described as “inexcusable” while also pleading for calm as justice took its

This year’s Hajj pilgrims reached Jamarat Bridge on Wednesday as they advanced through Mina for the final rite, the stoning of the devil, on the first day of Tashreeq. About 2 million pilgrims made their way to the massive multistory complex in Mina from Muzdalifah, where they

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom’s strong condemnation and denunciation on Wednesday of an extremist’s burning of a copy of the Qur’an at the Stockholm Central Mosque in Sweden during the Eid Al-Adha holiday. “These hateful and

US President Joe Biden and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have joined the chorus of world leaders congratulating the world’s Muslims marking Eid-ul-Azha. Canada and the US are celebrating Eid-ul-Azha or the feast of sacrifice today along with many countries across

Clashes have broken out between demonstrators and police following public outrage over the shooting death of a 17-year-old in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after the youth allegedly failed to comply with a police order to stop his car. The teenager was driving in a rental car in the

The leader of Russia's 24-hour mutiny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has arrived in Belarus, three days after his Wagner mercenary group's mutiny came to an end 200km (125 miles) south of Moscow. "Yes, indeed, he's in Belarus today," leader Alexander Lukashenko announced,

Attention in the Ukrainian capital has been fixed squarely on the mutiny of the Wagner Group, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its consequences for Vladimir Putin and the conduct of the war in Ukraine. The drama over the border in Russia has hardened the view in Kyiv that Mr

The White House has strongly condemned the online harassment faced by a Wall Street Journal reporter who questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of religious minorities' rights during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden in Washington on June 22.