At least 227 migrants were rescued off Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday, officials say, a day after reported deaths of more than 30 migrants there. Emergency services say the Coast Guard the migrants were travelling on inflatable boats near the Lanzarote and Gran Canaria islands i
A German woman and a member of the Islamic State (IS) group has been sentenced to nine years for crimes including keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave. The defendant was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership of a foreign terrorist organisation. A court in th
Russian officials accuse Ukraine of attacking the bridge linking southern Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula with long-range British missiles. The two parallel Chonhar bridges were both damaged but no-one was hurt, said the Russian-installed governor in occupied Kherson Vladimir Saldo.
In north-west China, nine people have been arrested over an explosion at a barbecue restaurant which has killed at least 31 people. A gas leak is suspected to have caused the explosion in Yinchuan city on Wednesday night local time. President Xi Jinping has called for "al
On Tuesday in Honduras, at least 41 people have been killed in a riot at a women's prison. It is understood that a fight broke out between rival gangs, after which one gang set a cell alight. Officials say the fire caused the majority of the deaths but some of the victims
A shooting attack by Palestinian gunmen near a settlement in the occupied West Bank has killed four Israelis. Four others were wounded, one of them seriously, when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a restaurant and petrol station on a highway outside Eli. Israel's mili
South Africa's President Ramaphosa met with his Russian counterpart Putin as part of a self-declared African peace mission to help end the war in Ukraine. Ramaphosa was accompanied by six other African leaders — the presidents of Comoros, Senegal, and Zambia, as well as
At least 41 students were killed and the terrorists are reported to be fleeing to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Horrifying reports from Uganda detail how five men –all connected with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) based in the neighbouring Democratic Republic
Police in Canada say, a highway collision has left 15 people dead and six others fighting for life A further four survivors with less serious injuries are also being treated in hospital, officials said on Friday. A bus carrying elderly people, ages 58 to 88, was going to a cas
The foreign minister of Mali has asked UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country with immediate effect. Abdoulaye Diop accused the force, Minusma, of having "become a part of the problem in fuelling intercommunal tensions". He was addressing the UN Security Counci