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Fighters from opposition groups in the southern Syrian city of Daraa Al-Balad are preparing to launch a campaign against Islamic State militants, according to reports. They have closed main and secondary roads and set up checkpoints across the city in …

At least 40 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge in the western Indian state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging hundreds of people into a river, a state minister said. More than 400 people were on the suspension bridge over the Machhu River in the t…

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has “yet to decide” if he will attend the annual Arab League summit in Algeria next week, Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita has said. Arriving in Algiers ahead of the regional meeting which begins on Tuesday, Bourita t…

The FBI is investigating the severe vandalism of a Muslim cemetery in the US state of North Dakota earlier this month, as the local community tries to repair the damage and understand the cause of the crime. The vandalism was discovered shortly before …

King Charles will not be attending the COP27 climate summit in Egypt in November, Downing Street has confirmed, ending weeks of speculation. Earlier this week, Egyptian authorities renewed the British monarch’s invitation to attend the summit after his…

German police are investigating an attack on a pro-democracy vigil outside the Iranian embassy in Berlin in which three people were injured in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police said an officer guarding the embassy saw three men with face coveri…

Anguished families in Somalia on Sunday desperately searched under debris and into body bags for loved ones after two simultaneous bombings tore through a busy intersection in the capital Mogadishu. At least 100 civilians lost their lives and 300 other…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday expressed “deep concern” as Ukraine’s maritime grain exports were halted after Russia suspended its participation in a deal that allowed the vital shipments. “The Secretary-General is deeply concerned abo…

Security forces firedtear gas on Sunday as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the Sudanese capital demanding a return to civilian rule, AFP correspondents said. Raising Sudanese flags and posters of activists killed during pro-democracy …

Russia’s defence ministry on Sunday said it had recovered and analysed the wreckage of drones used to attack ships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea the day before, finding that the drones were equipped with Canadian-made navigation. The ministry h…