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A truck crashed into a bus in central Germany, killing one person and injuring 13 others.

A Chinese court on Tuesday rejected a Canadian drug convict's appeal of a death sentence, in what appeared to be an effort to step up pressure on Canada to release a detained executive of tech giant Huawei.

In a video, a masked man claiming to represent Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel threatened to kill a news anchor for what he called unfair coverage.

Lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, who claims Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her when she was 17, filed the lawsuit against the royal in a Manhattan federal court.

It happened at the Clinical Emergency Hospital of Vladikavkaz, the capital city of the southwestern North Ossetia region, local news agencies reported.

In the middle of a food security crisis, North Korea is now battling floods and global warming.

Authorities have asked people to stay away from the area.

Hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi asked France to help secure Iran's “rights” in now-stalled talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

Since Monday, a health pass is required to visit bars, restaurants, health centres and to use long-distance public transport across France.

The 39th Balaton cross swimming takes place on the largest lake in central Europe.

Some believe there is no future in Europe. For others, Kais Saied’s recent power grab will persuade people to stay.

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

A letter addressed to Pope Francis that contained bullets was intercepted by postal workers in Italy.

Here are the latest COVID-19 developments from around the world.

Monday marks one year since the disputed election in Belarus, which sparked a protest movement of unprecedented size.

A man handed himself in after a priest was murdered on Monday in France's western region of Vendée. The suspect had been detained last year after admitting setting the Nantes Cathedral on fire.

More than 200 scientists worked on the IPCC's bombshell climate change report, which the UN called a "code red for humanity."

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.

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.

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.