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Protests have erupted in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked the country's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Netanyahu said a "crisis of trust" between the two leaders led to his decision, stressing that his trust in…

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published on Wednesday by the United Nations…

The voting process has been going smoothly, even with issues caused by non-credible bomb threats from Russia that disrupted voting in several states, officials said. Some counties in battleground states have started processing mail-in…

A group known as the Remittance Beneficiary Group, RBG has made a passionate appeal to Nigerian residents in the United States of America to cast their votes for Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris, in the presidential election.…

New buyers were renovating their house in eastern France when they discovered something strange in the attic - the previous owner's body, prosecutors said on Monday. Regional newspaper Le Republicain Lorrain identified the remains as…

A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal after completing the rare feat of scaling the mountain's perilous eastern face. Ondrej Huserka fell into a crevasse on Thursday after he and…

Two Chinese nationals were wounded on Tuesday by a security guard who opened fire at a garment factory in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi, in the latest in a string of attacks that have spurred Beijing to demand better security for its…

A series of parcel fires targeting courier companies in Poland, Germany, and the UK were dry runs aimed at sabotaging flights to the US and Canada, Polish prosecutors say. Katarzyna Calow-Jaszewska revealed late last month that four…

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 30 Palestinians since Monday night, Palestinian media and medics said on Tuesday, as the Israeli army tightened its siege on northern areas of the enclave. An airstrike damaged…

Swiss police have arrested 15 drug traffickers operating around the Verbier Mountain Resort as part of the biggest ever swoop in the surrounding Valais canton, police said on Tuesday. A multi-month investigation showed that the 15 French…