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Four construction workers have died after a building under renovation collapsed in central Madrid, near the city’s opera house and royal palace.

Popular New Orleans meteorologist Devon Lucie was arrested early Sunday morning on domestic abuse and child endangerment charges.

The Chhattisgarh Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has intensified its investigation into an alleged rice milling scam, filing a supplementary chargesheet on Monday against two key figures: former Indian Administrative Service officer Anil Tuteja and businessman Anwar Dhebar, officials relayed.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to keep his chamber on recess during the government shutdown is delaying a long-awaited vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.

As they enter their tenth consecutive night, youth-led protests in Morocco against government mismanagement and corruption show no sign of slowing, even as authorities have eased mass arrests and announced reforms in an attempt to quell the unrest.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned Monday just hours after he unveiled his new cabinet, in a shock move that plunged the country further into political crisis.

The ad was straightforward: Sign up for one year to fight on Russia’s side in “the special military operation zone” — i.e. the war in Ukraine — and get citizenship, free healthcare, money and land.

Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez stated on Sunday that Washington had been cautioned about a "false flag operation" by "extremist sectors of the local Venezuelan right" intended to plant explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas.

A pet lion belonging to a Thai TikToker escaped and attacked an 11-year-old boy and a man who attempted to assist him.

An abandoned station, a few rusted carriages, and a dozen meters of track are all that remains of a Soviet railway in southern Armenia.

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, the acclaimed actress best known as Dr. Belinda Brown in HBO’s dark comedy Vice Principals, has died at the age of 52.

A British ‘traitor’ fighting for Vladimir Putin set fire to his UK passport, more than a year into his role as a wannabe-warrior.

Russian authorities are conducting an investigation into the death of a prominent figure who fell from a window in western Moscow.

The US President wrote on Truth Social: "I am asking everyone to MOVE FAST. I will continue to monitor this centuries-old conflict.’

Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday, as hopes build for a possible ceasefire in Gaza after Benjamin Netanyahu said a hostage release could be announced "in the coming days".

Georgia’s prime minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, has announced a sweeping crackdown on dissent, accusing demonstrators who tried to storm the presidential palace of aiming to topple his government and blaming the European Union for interference in his country.

Rescue efforts are underway on Mount Everest after a snowstorm trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the mountain, according to Chinese state media.

Syria is holding its first parliamentary elections since the fall of its longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, in a tentative step towards democratic polls that have been criticized as biased in favour of the country’s interim leaders.

Trump’s supporters have targeted the Pope after he suggested that supporting the death penalty and mistreatment of immigrants is ’not really pro-life’.

Haitian journalist Gary Tesse was murdered in October 2022. The person allegedly responsible is former Les Cayes prosecutor Ronald Richemond, who is also accused of seizing large tracts of land, which he then resold to enrich himself.

A US federal agent on Saturday, October 4, shot a motorist who was allegedly armed and blocking law enforcement vehicles in Chicago, while a judge blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to deploy troops into Portland.

During China’s week-long National Day holiday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) intensified its “Clean Net” campaign to remove online content that “incites negative emotions” or “promotes pessimism.”