The Venezuelan government said Saturday opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia — in hiding after he challenged President Nicolas Maduro’s disputed reelection — has left the country, seeking asylum in Spain. “After taking refuge voluntarily at the Spanish

CIA Director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore warned on Saturday that the world order was “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the cold war”. Writing in a Financial Times op-ed, the two spy chiefs said “we have no more trusted or esteemed

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel. He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing by Israeli

The United Nations has called for a "full investigation" into the killing of a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday. Local media reported that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead by Israeli forces as she took part in a weekly protest against

The army on Thursday hinted at a military trial for former prime minister Imran Khan, warning that using military personnel for personal or political gains invites legal action. “Under military law, anyone who uses individuals subject to the Army Act for personal or political

At least 17 pupils have died after a school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, police said. There are fears that the death toll could rise as more than a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns. The cause of the fire at Hillside Endarasha Primary in

Bahrain has pardoned hundreds of inmates, the second major amnesty in months, as the Gulf state moves to ease lingering tensions from its crushing of Arab Spring pro-democracy protests. Scores of prisoners were released from a notorious Bahrain jail on Thursday following a royal pardon

In recent months, a string of wolf attacks has claimed the lives of nine children and one adult, with the youngest victim just a year old in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, close to the border with Nepal. Another 34 have been injured. In one case, a four-year-old girl was

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has again insisted that Israeli forces will not leave the Philadelphi Corridor - a strategically important strip of land in southern Gaza along the border with Egypt. He told foreign media in Jerusalem that he is “open” to

A 14-year-old boy will be charged with murder after four people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at a Georgia high school. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said two pupils and two teachers died in Wednesday's attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.

Six children and a pregnant woman were among 12 people who died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank off the French coast, in the English Channel. In total, 10 of the dead were female and two were male, according to the local prosecutor's office. More than 50 people

The US has charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and several other prominent figures in the Palestinian group in connection with its deadly attack in Israel on 7 October last year. The justice department said it was indicting six Hamas members with seven charges, including the murder of US

The 'Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill', which seeks the death penalty for convicts in rape and murder cases or in cases of rape where the victim is left in a vegetative state, was passed through a voice vote in the state Assembly on Tuesday.

On Monday evening, protestors carried empty coffins past Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house – the burden he carries is much heavier, they say. Since six Israeli hostages were found dead in a Gaza tunnel last weekend, the weight of the war there has hung heavier

A school bus ploughed into a crowd of people killing at least 11, including five students, in China's Shandong province, state media report. Several others were injured, including one who is in critical condition. The bus appears to have rammed into the students and parents as

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa. In a statement posted on X early on Tuesday, Interior Minister Shabani Lukoo said prisoners attempted the

Last October, Palestinian grandmother Ayesha Shtayyeh says a man pointed a gun at her head and told her to leave the place she had called home for 50 years. She told the BBC the armed threat was the culmination of an increasingly violent campaign of harassment and intimidation that

Angry demonstrators stage mass protests demanding ceasefire deal as Israel’s largest trade union calls for a general strike on Monday. Tens of thousands of Israelis have hit the streets demanding a ceasefire deal and Israel’s main labour union has called for a strike after

Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a "historic success", with a big victory for the far-right party in the eastern state of Thuringia. The AfD won almost a third of the vote, nine points ahead of the conservative CDU, and far in front

Israel says its forces have recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies were located on Saturday in an underground tunnel in the Rafah area. The IDF named the hostages as Carmel Gat, Eden