The island has been plagued by fires for a week now, and overnight firefighters battled until dawn to prevent the fire from reaching the town of Istiaia.

Police have arrested at least 50 people in Pakistan, accused of attacking a Hindu temple in the east of the country.

The body of a Swiss woman, aged 57, was discovered on Thursday at a secluded spot on the Thai island of Phuket.

The governor’s office of Balikesir province said the bus overturned at 04:40 local time on Sunday. Emergency units arrived at the site, where 11 people died. Four others died in the hospital.

San Marino sent five athletes to Tokyo and they're returning home with 3 medals — one silver and two bronzes.

Russia evacuates 2 villages in Siberia because of wildfires

Kool & the Gang co-founder dies aged 70

After 17 days of sporting action held a year late and with the spectre of COVID-19 hanging over them, the Tokyo Summer Olympics came to an end on Sunday.

We spoke to Liberian artist FaithVonic about music as a creative coping mechanism and how she uses her platform to make sure women know their rights.

If the city falls, it will be the second provincial capital in as many days to succumb to the Taliban.

At least two people have died because of the wildfires in Greece and eight have lost their lives in Turkey.

Serbia won the last gold medal in play at the Tokyo Olympics, beating Greece in men’s water polo.

Maria Licciardi, 70, was one of the victors in a long-running blood feud between alliances of clans that left Naples littered nearly daily with bodies earlier this century, prosecutors say.

The demonstrations come just two days before the use of the health pass is extended to bars, restaurants and long-distance public transport.

Earlier this week, Italy appealed to the European Union to press other member states to take some of the thousands of asylum-seekers who have arrived in the country in recent months, a sharp uptick since 2020.

The disciplinary chamber for top judges is part of judicial reforms the PiS has introduced in recent years and which have been harshly condemned by Brussels for curbing judicial independence.

At least 1,450 Greek firefighters were deployed on Saturday morning to battle five major fires throughout the country.

It's the penultimate day of action at the Tokyo Olympics. Here's a recap of who won what on Saturday.

A Briton and a Romanian national were killed in last week's attack on the Mercer Street tanker.

The 43-year-old victim, an ex-policeman and YouTube critic of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime in Chechnya, was shot in the head on an industrial estate last year.

“If you criticise the Zan bill, you’ll be accused of being a homophobe – which just isn’t conducive to having a constructive debate.”

At least 10 passengers were stabbed with a knife by a man on a commuter train in Tokyo on Friday.

The 38-year-old brother of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty of 'incitement to breach sanitary rules' by calling for street protests.

The slaying comes amid Taliban advances and battles for more territory as American and NATO forces complete their final pullout from Afghanistan by the end of the month.

Two charities in St Petersburg have started vaccinating homeless people who are unable to get access to COVID-19 jabs because they lack official documents.

The Green Pass, which is an extension of the EU's digital COVID certificate, contains a QR code with the personal information of every citizen.

“We, as Thatcher said, were the gateway to Europe [...] there’s now no point. Unless it’s going to terminate in the UK, what’s the point in bringing it here?"

Teams at El Jellaz, Tunisia's largest cemetery, are working around the clock digging graves for the dead.

South Africa's top truffle grower and supplier, the Miros family, created a joint venture to plant truffles with other farmers.

The countries ahead on vaccinations, relatively speaking, are those outside the EU, like Serbia and the UK. Hungary is the exception, but Budapest has bought doses from Russia and China to boost its stocks.

The Israeli army says sirens in northern Israel are warning of new attacks from over the border with Lebanon on Friday.

Qatar Airways said it grounded 13 Airbus A350s over what it described as fuselages "degrading at an accelerated rate" in the long-range aircraft, further escalating a monthslong dispute with the European airplane maker over the issue.

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attended a memorial commemorating the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Several days of heatwave have turned the whole country into a powder keg," said Greece's PM.

Here's a recap of who won what at the Olympics on Friday.

President Biden signed a memorandum allowing people from Hong Kong currently residing in the United States to live and work in the country for 18 months.

It was done as an interim measure during a formal investigation “in the interest of the wellbeing of the athletes,” the International Olympic Committee said.

News websites Otkrytye and MBKh Media, as well the Pravozashchita Otkrytki aid group, announced they had "no option" but to close on Thursday due to safety concerns.

The 60-year-old, dubbed the Calabrian clan's "boss of bosses" in the 1980s and 1990s, was sentenced in absentia to another 11 years in prison for murder and criminal association aimed at drug trafficking in January.

The health pass will be extended to restaurants, cafes and some modes of transport from August 9.

Conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in as president of Iran at a ceremony on Thursday.

The British government has approved tens of thousands of applications for a new study abroad programme, launched after the UK left the EU’s Erasmus programme following Brexit.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, 24, showed Japanese police a translated plea for help on her phone after being escorted to the airport by Belarusian officials on Sunday.

The bustling LEGO metropolis includes imposing buildings, sprawling shopping complexes, cafes, and parks.

The raid is symptomatic of a wider crackdown on dissent in Belarus since the disputed reelection of Lukashenko last August had sparked huge protests.

The archaeological site of Ancient Olympia - where the first ancient Olympic Games were held - is at risk as fires continue to wreak havoc in Greece.

Israel escalated its response to rocket attacks this week by launching rare airstrikes on Lebanon, the army and Lebanese officials said.

Residents of England's coastal towns suffer lower life expectancy and more mental health problems, experts say.

Tokyo reported a record 5,042 new daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, with infections continuing to surge in the city hosting the Olympic games.

A mix of grief over lost lives and rage at the lack of justice for the blast's victims, aggravated by a severe deterioration in living conditions in Lebanon, pushed protesters onto the streets.