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As Peru prepares to lay former president Alberto Fujimori to rest on Saturday, the families of civilians killed in his war on left-wing guerrillas are grappling with his death.

The 56-year-old was sentenced to life in prison after five people were injured due to the blaze, and a baby had to be thrown out a window to safety.

When the man was detained in May, police found he had mounted a video camera on his helmet

President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting at the White House where easing the restrictions is expected to be discussed

Three Americans were among 37 people sentenced to death on Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo over what the army says was a coup attempt.

Tetyana Bugay burst into tears as she called her sister to announce she had finally returned to Ukraine after spending over two and a half years in Russian captivity.

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Schools were evacuated Friday for a second day in a row in the small Ohio town of Springfield, according to local media, amid anti-Haitian-immigrant tensions stoked by Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

The deal is in the advance stage and could cost about $500 million

The co-founder of the deadly Mexican Sinaloa cartel, Ismael Zambada, appeared in court in Brooklyn Friday, pleading not guilty to a raft of charges following his arrest in a dramatic sting by US agents.

The first full day of London Fashion Week kicked off with a nod to the Swinging Sixties by Irish designer and LFW veteran Paul Costelloe and Turkish designer Bora Aksu. 1960s-style Mod dresses and workwear in pastel linens, floral silk jacquards and understated tweeds abounded in Costelloe's Spring/Summer collection, "Le ciel est bleu".

The Australian passenger was ordered to pay more than $10,000 after the flight from Perth to Sydney had to return back to Perth due to his disruptive behavior.

2 men have been arrested and charged with burglary for allegedly stealing an autographed print by the popular artist this week.

It's the end of an era: after 74 years the blast furnace at Chile's biggest steelmaker will be turned off on Monday, snuffed out by competition from China with the loss of thousands of jobs.

The United States locked in tariff hikes on billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods Friday, with a 100 percent duty on electric vehicles and 25 percent on EV batteries taking effect in two weeks.

Russia's central bank on Friday raised interest rates to 19 percent amid the country's ongoing Ukraine offensive, warning inflation was running too high and it needed to cool the economy.

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels, the quirky alternative to the Nobel prizes.

Spain tried to calm the war of words with Venezuela Friday with relations between the two countries almost at breaking point after Caracas recalled its ambassador.

China said Friday it would gradually raise its statutory retirement age, as the country grapples with a looming demographic crisis and an older population.

Malaysian police expanded their probe Friday into a major Islamic business organisation with links to a banned sect, after hundreds of children were rescued from alleged abuse at care homes believed to be run by the group.

Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around remote capital Naypyidaw on Friday, as Vietnam began clearing up after Typhoon Yagi.

The one-off Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand was washed out on Friday after five days of rain, just the eighth Test in history to be abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun said Friday that "negotiation" was the only solution to conflicts such as the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, as he addressed a global gathering of military officials in Beijing.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Joe Biden will discuss Friday whether to let Kyiv use long-range missiles against Russia, in what is likely their last meeting before an election that could upend US policy on Ukraine.

North Korea released images of its uranium enrichment facility for the first time on Friday, showing leader Kim Jong Un touring it as he called for more centrifuges to boost his nuclear arsenal.

Vietnamese farmer Do Hong Yen estimates she lost tens of thousands of dollars when her valuable peach blossom crop was swamped by muddy waters in Hanoi's worst flooding in two decades.

Government buildings and an elementary school in Springfield, Ohio were evacuated Thursday after an emailed bomb threat, police said, rattling the small US city at the heart of an anti-migrant conspiracy theory amplified by Donald Trump.

The 15-year-old was first arrested for assaulting a shopkeeper with a knife, before punching a man who then hit his head and died of his injuries.

Emmanuel Macron and his former prime minister Edouard Philippe, who hopes to succeed the French president after the 2027 election, made a rare joint public appearance on Thursday to remember eighty years since the liberation of a French port from Nazi occupation.