world

Gunmen have killed at least 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, authorities said Thursday. Ruben Bako, chairman of the Otukpo local government where the massacre…

KYIV, Ukraine – Inna’s town just outside Kherson, Ukraine, had been living under occupation in early October 2022. The war had come to her family, and she thought she’d found…

Australian authorities have charged a man after he allegedly stole a platypus from the wild and took it onto public transit.  The unnamed 26-year-old man faces a fine of up…

Spanish authorities said Thursday that they evacuated 70 people from their homes to ensure their safety as a wildfire burned unchecked in southern Andalusia. SPAIN SPRINGTIME WILDFIRES MORE FEROCIOUS THAN…

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is being treated for a lung infection that is a result of chronic leukemia, his doctors said Thursday, revealing the latest of string of health…

U.N. officials have condemned a Taliban decision to bar Afghan female staffers from working at the agency. Despite initial promises of a more moderate rule than during its previous stint…

Veterinarians said they performed a critical procedure to save a sick elephant at a zoo in southern Pakistan on Wednesday. Noor Jehan, 17, was brought to Karachi with three other…

A former communications officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite secretive security service has defected after deciding he could not work for a "war criminal" following the invasion of Ukraine. …

Foreign veterinarians visited a sickly elephant at a southern Pakistani zoo Tuesday amid widespread concern over her well-being and living conditions. One vet said her chances of surviving are unclear.…

The Israeli Defense Forces launched an airstrike on a Hamas weapons facility on Wednesday, following a series of back-and-forth agitations between Israeli officials and Palestinians earlier in the day, officials…