At least 11 people – including students – have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at a school in southwest Russia, according to reports The shooting took place at Secondary...

The Japanese government decided Friday to expand the COVID-19 state of emergency beyond Tokyo and the Osaka region and extend it to May 31 in an effort to bring down infections and ease the strain on hospitals. Prime...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, to 25 years in prison for...

Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children 12 to 15 years old. The vaccine was initially approved for use in those aged 16 and older in December, and Health Canada received an...

Former president of the United States, Donald Trump, will remain blocked from Facebook after a ruling from the company’s independent oversight board. But it criticised the permanent nature of the ban...

Derek Chauvin’s lawyer filed a motion seeking a new trial, alleging prosecutorial and jury misconduct, and saying a change of venue should have been granted. Mr. Chauvin was convicted last month of two...

A metro overpass has collapsed in Mexico City as a train was travelling over it, killing at least 24 people, including children, the mayor said. Two train carriages were seen hanging from the structure,...

President Joe Biden announced Monday, after coming under fierce criticism, that he was raising the maximum number of refugees allowed into the United States this year to 62,500 — up from the 15,000...

Sixteen Niger soldiers have been killed and another is missing after an ambush against a patrol in the Tahoua region near the Mali border, local officials said Sunday. During the attack by “bandits”...

India’s death toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, the country’s deadliest day, as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new...

At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday. Another 110 people were injured in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib...

Former Minneapolis Police officer, Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges by a jury in the Hennepin County Court over the murder of an African American, George Floyd. The 12 jurors found him...

The Chadian Army has announced that General Mahamat Kaka, late President Idriss Deby’s son, will replace him as the head of a military council. The announcement was made by army spokesman, General Azem...

The Chadian Army has confirmed the death of the President of Chad, Mr Idriss Deby,  The Army said the President succumbed to injuries sustained while actively fighting on the frontline. Deby, 68, according...

Eleven people were killed and about 100 injured on Sunday in a train accident in Egypt’s Qalioubia province north of Cairo, Railway authorities say that at least four train wagons ran off the tracks...

Half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot, the government announced Sunday, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign. Almost 130 million...

India will lock down its capital New Delhi for a week from Monday night to try and control a raging coronavirus outbreak. Infections are skyrocketing in India, however, with hospitals running out of beds...

President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the United States government has told Russia “there will be consequences” if Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny dies in prison. “We...

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court upheld a ruling Thursday annulling former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s corruption convictions, which cleared the way for him to run for a new presidential...

A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said. Five people were hospitalized after...