Multiple people have been killed after gunmen targeted civilians at a picnic spot in western Afghanistan, officials and a local doctor have said. There have been different reported death tolls...
A senior official in the Lebanese president’s office has told the BBC that Lebanon will participate in direct negotiations with Israel next week only if there is a ceasefire in...
A man in eastern France has been charged with keeping his nine-year-old son locked in a van for more than a year. The boy was found on Monday after neighbours...
South Korean authorities have deployed heat-seeking cameras and drones in a widening search for a runaway wolf that has been on the loose for three days after escaping from a...
A Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli during a settler attack on a village in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening. A relative said Alaa Khalid Subeih,...
The world’s largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious “civil war” for the last eight years, according to researchers. It is not clear...
A 61-year-old Swedish man has gone on trial accused of coercing his wife into providing sexual services to more than 120 men. The man is alleged to have used the...
Dutch police have issued a social media plea for victims of an alleged “international sextortion campaign” to come forward, warning that dozens of women and girls were coerced into degrading...
Tanzanian musician Sefu Shabani, popularly known as Matonya, has been arrested and charged with rape in Kenya. The 43-year-old denied the charge when he appeared in court in the coastal...
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a truce for Orthodox Easter, with Vladimir Putin saying he’s ordered troops to cease fire “in all directions” this weekend. His declaration came after...