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Hostage drama at Amsterdam Apple store ends, gunma...
A man with a firearm who held several people hostage in an Apple store in central Amsterdam late Tuesday was overpowered after a...
Gunman takes people hostage at Amsterdam Apple sto...
A man with a firearm walked into an Apple store in central Amsterdam late Tuesday and was holding people hostage, police said, add...
Israel court freezes eviction order of Palestinian...
An Israeli court on Tuesday froze the planned eviction of a Palestinian family in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighbourhood of S...
Three white US men convicted of hate crimes in Bla...
A US jury found three white men guilty of federal hate crimes on Tuesday for the murder of a Black man who was shot dead while jog...
Three white men convicted of hate crimes in Black...
A jury found three white men guilty of federal hate crimes on Tuesday for the murder of a Black jogger in Georgia two years ago.
Prominent anti-China activist arrested in Mongolia
A prominent anti-China activist has been arrested in Mongolia, part of what campaigners have said is a wider effort to "clean up"...
Tonga back online as undersea cable repaired
Internet connection was restored in Tonga on Tuesday, five weeks after a massive volcanic eruption shredded the undersea cable tha...
UN experts slam online attacks on Indian journalis...
UN rights experts have called for an end to "misogynistic and sectarian" online attacks against a Muslim Indian woman journalist,...
Ex-Bolivia interim president Anez gets 3 more mont...
Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez, imprisoned since March 2021 for her alleged role in a coup d'etat, will remain in...
Behind Cape Town's heavenly beaches, the hell of d...
Ocean View is a contender for one of the world's most ironic place names.
Honduran ex-president requests house arrest as US...
Lawyers for Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States, asked Monday th...
'Suisse Secrets' puts Swiss banking back in spotli...
The "Suisse Secrets" data leak claiming to reveal how Credit Suisse handled billions of dollars in dirty money has renewed pressur...
Brazil storm toll rises to 176, search continues
The death toll from violent floods and landslides that hit the scenic Brazilian city of Petropolis last week rose to 176 Monday, i...
Shelter for traumatised apes in DR Congo's strife-...
Beyond the reach of bloody conflicts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, rescued apes swing from one branch to another under...
Turkey court extends detention of top activist
A Turkish court ordered leading activist Osman Kavala to remain in prison Monday, amid fresh calls for his release in the high-pro...
Greece resumes search for ferry fire survivors
Greek rescuers on Monday resumed the search for 10 people still missing from a ferry fire that has killed at least one truck drive...
Brazil storm death toll rises to 165
The death toll from torrential rains that triggered flash floods and landslides in the scenic Brazilian city of Petropolis has ris...
'Fortress Australia' re-opens to tourists after tw...
Australia reopened its borders to vaccinated tourists Monday, nearly two years after the continent nation imposed some of the worl...
Greek rescuers find first ferry blaze victim
Rescuers searching a burning ferry off the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday recovered the body of a trucker, the first confirmed fa...
First body found aboard blazing ferry off Greece
Rescuers searching for missing passengers aboard a ferry ablaze off the Greek island of Corfu for three days, on Sunday recovered...
'Fortress Australia' re-opens after two-year Covid...
Australia opens its international borders to all vaccinated tourists Monday, nearly two years after the island nation first impose...
Passenger found alive on ferry ablaze off Greece
A passenger was on Sunday found alive on a ferry that has been ablaze off Greece for three days, coastguards said, with 11 truck d...
The price of love: Pandemic fuels romance scams
For years, Debby Montgomery Johnson didn't tell anyone she'd been scammed out of more than $1 million by a man with whom she belie...
Show of force in Ottawa as police clear main prote...
Police in riot gear cleared the main protest hub in downtown Ottawa Saturday, using batons and pepper spray and making dozens of a...
Police close in to dislodge Canada capital protest...
Police pushed into downtown Ottawa Saturday in a bid to dislodge several hundred dug-in protesters and big rigs that have choked t...
Brother freed over 'honour killing' of Pakistani s...
A Pakistani man who murdered his celebrity sister was freed on Saturday after a court ruled it was not an "honour killing", allowi...
12 missing off Greece as ferry fire burns on
At least 12 truck drivers remainedmissing on Saturday from an Italian-flagged ferry still ablaze on the Ionian Sea off Corfu, Gree...
Rescue efforts continue for 12 missing in Greece f...
Rescuers picked up the search for 12 missing people at the break of dawn Saturday after an Italian-flagged ferry caught fire on th...
12 missing after Greece ferry fire
Twelve people were missing and two remained trapped after an Italian-flagged ferry caught fire overnight on the Ionian Sea, Greek...
'Violent' attack by protesters at Canadian pipelin...
Canadian police said Friday they were investigating a "violent confrontation" at a gas pipeline construction site in the western p...
'Scenes of war' amid search for victims of Brazil...
An increasingly desperate search was under way Friday for people buried by a deluge of mud that swept through the Brazilian city o...
French first lady sues two women over trans claims
Brigitte Macron, France's first lady, has filed a lawsuit against two women who claimed she was transsexual, sparking a wave of on...
Two trapped, several feared missing in ferry fire...
Two people were trapped Friday on a burning Italian-flagged ferry sailing through the Ionian Sea and nearly a dozen sustained mino...
UK 'always' Prince Harry's home, protection case h...
A lawyer for Prince Harry told a London court Friday that the UK "will always be his home", appealing a government refusal to prov...
A fisherman's life on the high seas: harsh, risky...
"It's very tough, you make a lot of sacrifices and they don't pay you what they should," shrugs Jeronimo Martinez, a fisherman fro...
Three hurt in ferry fire off Greece
A fire broke out early Friday on an Italian-flagged ferry sailing through the Ionian Sea, injuring three people among the nearly 3...
IAEA wraps up first trip to monitor Fukushima wate...
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday it made "significant progress" on its first mission to review the planned relea...
Boy trapped three days down Afghan well dies after...
A five-year-old boy trapped for three days down a remote Afghan village well died moments after being pulled out alive, officials...
Sri Lanka clears police, defence chiefs over Easte...
Sri Lanka's High Court on Friday acquitted two top officials accused of "crimes against humanity" for failing to prevent the 2019...