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Bangkok - A devastating fire tore through a Thai bus carrying 44 students and teachers on a school trip Tuesday, officials said, with up to 25 feared dead.Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said...

Beirut, Lebanon - The Israeli military said Tuesday that troops have started "ground raids" in villages in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah said it had targeted "enemy soldiers" at the countries'...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — At least 170 people have died in Nepal after days of unceasing rain caused heavy flooding and triggered major landslides around the country, including in the densely populated...

Beirut - Israel carried out an air strike on a Beirut apartment block on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, killing four people in its first such raid on the heart of the city since the outbreak...

Low-lying neighbourhoods in Nepal's capital Kathmandu were inundated by surging floodwaters on Sunday after ferocious monsoon rains that police said had killed at least 101 people around the Himalayan...

BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS: The Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday in an attack that shook the Lebanese capital and sent thick...

PARIS: From disinformation campaigns to soaring scepticism, plummeting trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow. World News Day, taking place on Saturday...

Text by: Ryland James, the writer is AFP's New Zealand and South Pacific correspondentA New Zealand enthusiast spent half a century amassing one of the world's largest private butterfly collections....

Text by: Zama Luthuli, the writer is AFP's Southern Africa CorrespondentThrough decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power...

BEIRUT: Beirut is buzzing with activity as volunteers scramble to aid the tens of thousands displaced by Israel's intense bombardment of Lebanon this week. Despite an economic crisis that has gripped...

KYIV: A Russian drone attack Friday on Ukraine's port town of Izmail killed three, while a strike on a police office in the central city of Krivyi Rig killed one, officials said. Two elderly women and...

WASHINGTON: US Vice President Kamala Harris travels to the US-Mexican border to try to show she is tough on migration, a key election issue on which Donald Trump has dramatically stepped up his...

KANPUR: Bad light followed by heavy rain ended play before tea on day one of the second Test between India and Bangladesh in Kanpur with the visitors 107-3 on Friday.Mominul Haque, on 40, and...

GALLE, Sri Lanka: New Zealand were flailing at 22-2 and trailing by 580 on Friday against a dominant Sri Lankan batting attack that saw middle-order maestro Kamindu Mendis reach 1,000 runs from just...

LONDON: Tottenham started their Europa League campaign with a 3-0 win against Qarabag despite playing more than 80 minutes with 10 men, but Son Heung-min gave the north Londoners an injury scare on...

LONDON: Manchester City midfielder Rodri will miss the rest of the season with a serious knee injury, dealing a huge blow to their hopes of winning a fifth straight Premier League title.City manager...

Paris: Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by...

Copenhagen - The World Health Organization warned Wednesday of a "sharp rise in problematic social media use" among Europe's teens that it said is harming their mental health. The health body's...

Iran president tells CNN 'must not allow Lebanon to become another Gaza.'Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that its Hezbollah “cannot stand alone” against Israel, which killed nearly 500 people in...

Lebanon - Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed at least 492 people on Monday, including 35 children, the health ministry said, marking the deadliest day of cross-border violence since the Gaza war...