A suspected nitrate oxide gas leak in South Africa has led to the deaths of 16 people, local officials say. The victims - including women and children - died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. Wednesday's leak has been linked to

Russian jets harassed U.S. hunter-killer drones that were conducting a mission against ISIS targets in Syria on Wednesday, a U.S. commanding officer said. At about 10:40 a.m. local time, three U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones were conducting a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria when

Monday was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world. The

Israeli forces began withdrawing from the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday after carrying out one of their biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank for years. Two witnesses said they saw convoys of Israeli military vehicles leaving Jenin in what appeared to signal an

Pope Francis has condemned last week’s Quran burning in Sweden, saying he felt “angry and disgusted” to see the Muslim holy book desecrated. In an interview published on Monday in the United Arab Emirates newspaper Al Ittihad, the pope said: “Any book considered

In a latest round of restrictions, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has imposed ban on women beauty salons, giving them one month to wrap up their businesses. In a latest round of restrictions, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has imposed ban on women beauty salons,

An international office to investigate Russia over its invasion of Ukraine opens on Monday, July 3, in The Hague, in the first step towards a possible tribunal for Moscow's leadership. The International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA) features

Four people were been killed and four others injured in a mass shooting in Philadelphia on Monday night, in the latest outbreak of gun violence in the United States. Police said that a gunman, wearing a bulletproof jacket, opened fire on the street in Philadelphia's southwestern

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi refugee in Stockholm, Sweden and underlined the need to take measures to avoid anti-Muslims. In a phone conversation with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Fuad Hussein on Saturday, Guterres

The Israeli army has launched a massive military operation on the Jenin camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. It started with multiple drone strikes. Videos published on social media showed smoke rising from a residential block. The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern province of Papua on Monday, but did not trigger a tsunami, an official said. The country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency had first released the quake at 6.2 magnitude before revising it, according to

US President Joe Biden has scheduled a diplomatic trip to Europe this month with stops in the United Kingdom, at the NATO summit in Lithuania and to attend meetings in Finland, the White House said Sunday. Biden is set to depart July 9 for Britain, where he will meet with the King

The Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called for collective measures to prevent future Quran burnings, days after a copy was torched outside a Stockholm mosque. On Sunday, the OIC urged member states to "take unified and collective measures to prevent the

Israel has approved the purchase of a third squadron of F-35 stealth fighter jets in a deal worth $3 billion, the Ministry of Defense said on Sunday. The additional 25 aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin will bring the number of F-35s in Israel’s air force to 75, the

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