EPAA woman lights a candle at a church in TehranOne Monday in mid-October, after a year in US immigration detention, officers arrived unannounced at Majid's cell in Texas.They told him simply to "pack up" - that he was being moved...
Paul Kirby,Europe digital editor and Guy Delauney,Balkans correspondentAFPThe club's owner, nearest the camera, is among those on trialThirty-five people and three institutions have gone on trial in North Macedonia over a devastating fire at a nightclub that killed 63, mainly...
ReutersWater levels in Tehran's Amirkabir dam are at 8% of capacity, officials sayAuthorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades.Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for international action to cut off the supply of weapons to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who are accused of mass killings in el-Fasher. At the end of a G7 foreign...
Canada has lost its measles elimination status, said the Pan American Health Organization (Paho) on Monday, after failing to curb an outbreak of the virus for 12 consecutive months.Because Canada is no longer deemed measles-free, the Americas region as a...
AFP via Getty ImagesJoseph Kony's rebel group gained notoriety for hacking off the limbs of peopleSurvivors of the reign of terror inflicted by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Uganda have told the BBC they welcome the move by the...
Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza a coffin which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contains the body of a deceased hostage, according to the Israeli prime minister's office.Israeli forces will now transfer the remains to the...
Ukraine's top military commander has admitted his soldiers are facing "difficult conditions" defending Pokrovsk - a key eastern front-line town - against massed Russian forces.Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian troops were facing a "multi-thousand enemy" force - but denied Russian...
Nick Davis,Kingston and Rachel HaganEPAMany parts of the island have been hit hard - this photo was taken in Kingston on TuesdayThe true extent of Hurricane Melissa is still being revealed in Jamaica.Without power or phone coverage, much of the...
Damian Zane and Danai Nesta KupembaReutersHundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes because of the ongoing conflictSudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it has taken control of the western city of el-Fasher, marking a...
