Iranian prison authorities have blocked 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi's hospital transfer for urgently needed care over her refusal to wear the compulsory hijab, her family has said.
Australian police charged a woman with murder Thursday over a mushroom meal that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.
When he was barely a teenager, Kenyan goatherder Lisoka Lesasuyan lost both arms to an unexploded bomb while crossing a field used in joint military exercises with the British army.
From Angola to Hong Kong, North Korea is rapidly shuttering its overseas embassies, as Pyongyang's economy sputters and Kim Jong Un embraces 'new Cold War' diplomacy with Russia, experts say.
Storm Ciaran battered northern France with record winds of nearly 200 km per hour killing a lorry driver as southern England remained on high alert Thursday and rail operators in several countries warned of traffic disruptions.
Hundreds more wounded and foreign passports holders hoped to escape war-torn Gaza on Thursday as Israeli forces bombed and fought intense ground battles with Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian territory.
More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since Islamabad issued an ultimatum to 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a stimulus package worth more than $100 billion on Thursday as he tries to ease the squeeze from inflation and rescue his premiership with his poll ratings at a record low.
On Day 27 of the raging Israel-Hamas war, the Israeli army announced the death of its highest-ranking official to have fallen in battle since the war started, Hamas said it would repeat the Oct. 7 attack against Israel to teach the country a lesson, and hundreds of foreign nationals have crossed over into Egypt.
Working as a nurse in her rural Nigerian village, Andat Datau faced more than her share of challenges.
Australian police on Thursday arrested the woman at the centre of a mushroom meal mystery that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.
A former shoeshine boy now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Luiz Barsi has been called the "Brazilian Warren Buffet" for his ultrasharp investing acumen.
Nearly half the world's countries are seeing the level of democracy decline, an international think tank said Thursday.
Out with the Bachman's Sparrow and the Couch's Kingbird -- the top authority in North American birding is ditching human names in a move to cut ties between the feathered creatures and the misdeeds of those whose names they carry.
Pope Francis on Wednesday said he would attend the crucial COP28 climate talks starting in Dubai on November 30, weeks after warning that time is running out to act on global warming.
Much of northwestern Europe went on high alert Wednesday as a storm dubbed Ciaran threatened to bring gale-force winds and extreme rainfall to the region.
Newly elected president Daniel Noboa will manage the end of oil extraction amidst dueling political and security crises. Will Ecuador be able to build a post-oil economy?
Former prime minister Boris Johnson asked the UK government's top scientific advisors early in the pandemic if a "special hairdryer" could be used against Covid, it emerged on Wednesday.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated two new railway links and a thermal plant unit via video conferencing Wednesday amid anti-government protests in Dhaka.
Diapers litter the ground at an Afghan border crossing where thousands of Afghan families have waited for days after being forced to leave Pakistan, with frustration mounting as resources dwindle.
Shin, whose assets in South Korea were frozen by authorities, distanced himself from Kwon. He is facing trial for fraud, illegal fundraising and capital market law violation.
The tech giant warned a number of Indian opposition leaders and journalists that their iPhones may have been targeted by "state-sponsored attackers."
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday expressed his "shame" at crimes committed during Germany's colonial rule in Tanzania and pledged to raise awareness of the atrocities in his own country.
The U.S.-China relations are said to be about to turn the corner, as both countries suffer the consequences of the trade war.
This is the second case involving an Indian expatriate in Kuwait who is being deported by the Middle Eastern country for being vocal about their pro-Israeli stance.
A mother guided her bawling five-year old boy across rocks close to Bambo, a town in eastern DR Congo, as mortar fire rained down nearby.
One year after Ethiopia signed a peace deal with the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending a brutal conflict that killed hundreds of thousands by some estimates, life in the northern region is slowly limping back to normal.
An accord signed a year ago between the rivals in Ethiopia's Tigray war has brought peace to the shattered region, but ignited yet another conflict in the increasingly fractured nation.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced the threat of detention and deportation on Wednesday, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus.
Seeking to stem the flight of its young doctors, Albania has brought in a law to make recent medical graduates work in their home country for up to five years, or until they pay back their tuition fees.
