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Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner paramilitary group, was killed Wednesday after the plane he was aboard went down northwest of Moscow, according to Russian authorities.

India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole on Wednesday. It is a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water.

An Ecuadorian police report says the six men arrested as suspects in the assassination of an anti-corruption presidential candidate are Colombian nationals.

The United Nations' human rights chief says his office in Uganda will close this weekend after the East African country decided not to renew an agreement allowing it to operate.

Police have arrested the son of Colombia’s president as part of a high-profile money laundering probe into funds he allegedly collected during last year’s presidential campaign.

The European Union said it was suspending all aid to Niger with immediate effect after General Abdourahamane Tchiani declared himself the leader of the country in a coup. The bloc will also stop all security cooperation.

Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones. Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater have been discovered under the garden of the future Four Seasons Hotel.

Russian cruise missiles have destroyed farm storage buildings in the Odesa region. Ukrainian officials said three missiles hit early Friday.

The service member is the first known American to be held in North Korean custody since​ Bruce Byron Lowrance​ was detained for a month after illegally entering the country from China in 2018.​

Turkey had opposed Sweden's bid to join the alliance since it applied last year after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The agreement ends years of legal limbo that affects thousands of companies — but could be challenged yet again in court.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced his resignation and that of his Cabinet, citing irreconcilable differences within his four-party coalition about how to rein in migration.

The United States announced on Friday that it will send Ukraine cluster munitions - prohibited by more than 100 countries - as part of an $800 million security package, a move Ukraine said would have an "extraordinary psycho-emotional impact" on Russian forces.

A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

Élysée insists French president not advocating general blackout as ministers say rioters using platforms to organise violence

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and Britain have asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to open proceedings against Iran over the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in 2020 that killed all 176 people on board, legal filings showed on Wednesday.

Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday.

Nahel's death has fed longstanding complaints of discrimination, police violence and systemic racism inside law enforcement from residents of the low-income, racially mixed suburbs that ring major French cities.

The move is a desperate attempt to restore order after rioters torched buildings and cars in a third night of rage sparked by the police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M. on Tuesday.

After claiming his forces were attacked by Russia, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said he would march on Moscow.

Russia sent armored vehicles into the streets of Moscow and a city near Ukraine. Russia’s main security agency urged Wagner mercenaries to detain their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, after he accused Russian forces of attacking them.

Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first heard the suspected implosion just hours after the submersible began its voyage.

The U.S. Coast Guard did not elaborate on what rescuers believed the noises could be. However, it offered a glimmer of hope for those now lost aboard the Titan as estimates suggest as little as a day’s worth of oxygen could be left.

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 17 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday.…

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a sword in a three-person burial dating to the late 14th century B.C.

Health Minister Rosa Gutiérrez quits with the country in the grip of a deadly dengue fever outbreak.

One of the victims, will however remain at the prison after refusing to comply with court's set conditions including feeding.

The EU’s artificial intelligence regulation took a major step, with the European Parliament approving its version of the AI Act.

Forecasters say the cyclone has begun to make landfall as 170,000 are evacuated.

Scotland's former first minister attended a police interview on Sunday before being arrested by detectives.

The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine's Kherson region was blown up by Russian forces, the South command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Tuesday.