BRATISLAVA (Slovenia) -- On Friday, a train engine struck a stop passenger train in Slovakia, injuring many people. Police said that four of those injured were seriously. The train was carrying around 100 passengers at the time of the accident, which took...

BAKHMUT (Ukraine) -- Friday marked the 100th day in Russia's war on Ukraine. Block-by-block fighting broke out in two cities in eastern Ukraine. Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai stated that fierce battles continued at Sievierodonetsk where approximately 13,000...

BANGKOK -- Myanmar's military-installed government announced Friday it would execute an ex-lawmaker from the party of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a veteran pro-democracy activist convicted for violating the country's Counter-Terrorism Law....

CAIRO -- Saturday's U.N. human rights official condemned the ongoing crackdown against pro-democracy protesters from Sudan. The country has been in turmoil since a military coup six months ago. Adama Dieng (UN expert on Sudan human rights) urged the...

BERLIN -- Officials said Friday that China had blocked efforts to increase protection for emperor penguins, which are increasingly endangered by global warming's effects on Antarctica. At a Berlin meeting of Antarctic Treaty parties, dozens of countries...

MOSCOW -- Russian agent Dmitry Kovtun was acquitted by the U.K authorities of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko in London, in 2006. He died at the age of 57. Andrei Lugovoi, a Russian lawmaker, was also accused by the U.K. of the spy's murder. He announced...

ISTANBUL -- The ambassador of Greece to Turkey was summoned by the Foreign Ministry to discuss concerns regarding the activities of the Kurdish Workers Party, which is illegal in Turkey, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. Turkish officials complained...

THESSALONIKI (Greece) -- Two people died in northern Greece on Saturday while trying to evade police checkpoints, according to police in Thessaloniki. Twelve other passengers were also injured in the passenger vehicle, with the most severe injuries sustained...

FRANKFURT (Germany) -- Police Saturday said that a fifth victim was found under a train which had been stalled in southern Germany's Alps. After initial attempts to lift the carriages that were stalled, the man's body was found. Recovery workers...

ACCRA, Ghana -- West African heads have resisted further punishment of leaders of Mali and Guinea at a summit Saturday. However, coup leaders from all three countries insist that new elections will not be possible for many years. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President...

BEIJING -- A high-speed train driver in southern China was killed, and eight others were injured after two cars collided with a mudslide early Saturday morning. State broadcaster CCTV reported. Midmorning, the train was entering the tunnel in the inland south...

BAKHMUT (Ukraine) -- Russian attacks are accelerating in Ukraine's fighting for independence. They are cutting off power, water, and gas supply to entire cities and towns. Utility crews are being sent to fix the damaged transmission lines and pipes and...

SEOUL, South Korea -- On Saturday, the U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan completed a naval exercise in the Philippine Sea with South Korea. This was amid indications that North Korea may be preparing for its first nuclear test since 2017. The three-day...

ZHYTOMYR (Ukraine) -- After burying a Russian-killed veteran colonel, the cemetery workers prepared the next hole. The empty grave will not last long, as death is a constant occurrence in the frontlines of Ukraine. Col. Oleksandr Makhachek left behind a widow,...

HONG KONG -- Police force swarmed Hong Kong's Victoria Park Saturday, after authorities banned public commemoration for the third year in succession of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Vigils abroad were the only place that marked the occasion. For...

LUCKNOW (India) -- A fire broke out in a northern Indian chemical factory, resulting in the deaths of eight workers and more than a dozen injuries, according to police. According to Pravin Kumar, a senior police officer, the fire started after a boiler in...

ROME -- Five European Union countries on the Mediterranean called Saturday for an end of the EU's "voluntary solidarity" on migrants and for a better way of distributing the burden of care for them. Two days of talks between Spain, Italy, Cyprus and...

PHNOM PENH (Cambodia) -- Sunday's local elections were the first opportunity for Cambodians to vote since Hun Sen, the long-serving Prime Minister, won a 2018 general election widely criticized as unfair. Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party...

PERMET (Albania) -- Albania's parliament elected a top military officer as its new president on Saturday after three rounds of voting saw no nominees. After the vote of the 140-seat Parliament, 78 voted in favor, four against, and one abstention, Gen.-Maj....

KYIV, Ukraine -- On Saturday, Russian troops supported by airstrikes pounded a section of eastern Ukraine. They destroyed bridges and shelled apartment buildings while trying to capture two cities. This would allow Moscow to take control of a disputed province,...

DHAKA (Bangladesh) -- At least 49 people were killed in a fire at a container depot located near a port town in southeastern Bangladesh. More than 100 people were also injured. Officials and local media reported that efforts to extinguish it continued into...

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani military claims that seven militants were killed in two separate operations near the Afghan border. They said that five militants were killed during a raid on a hideout located in Bannu's Jani Khel district. This area is the...

TEHRAN (Iran) -- Saturday's acknowledgment by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, that Iran had taken two Greek oil tankers in a helicopter-launched raid in the Persian Gulf. These confiscations were in retaliation to Greece's involvement...

PARIS -- France's fierce thunderstorms and hailstorms left one woman dead, and injured 14 others. They also damaged vineyards and delayed flights. According to local authorities, lightning struck the Eiffel Tower without causing any damage and set roofs...