Shanghai reported 39 Covid deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns, while China's capital Beijing warned of a "grim" situation with rising infections. 

Yemen's government blamed the Iran-backed Huthi rebels for the postponement, claiming they had tried to "smuggle" members of Tehran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah onto the flight, while authorities in Sanaa said it "vio...

Under the rain at a military position in the eastern town of Lyman, on the frontline, soldiers traded the usual patriotic salutation of "Glory to Ukraine!" for the ritual "Christ has risen!" "Truly risen!" came the reply. In the town's small Ortho...

While most countries rely on exit polls to declare elections winners, at the risk of jumping the gun, pollsters in France base their estimates on actual ballots counted – a system made possible by the staggered closure of polling stations across t...

Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated after the first round of voting at Saturday’s elective congress. 

Auckland produced a sub-par effort but were still good enough to secure a bonus point with a 35-18 win over the Fijian Drua to go a point clear of the Brumbies who beat the Highlanders 28-17. After two months of local derbies in their home-based c...

The world's second-largest economy has been struggling to stamp out its worst outbreak in two years with a playbook of harsh lockdowns and mass testing as it sticks to a strict zero-Covid policy, taking a heavy toll on businesses and public morale. ...

Raine were commissioned to lead the sale process by Roman Abramovich before the Russian was hit by UK government sanctions last month over his connections to Vladimir Putin. The European champions have since been operating under a special licence t...

Jose de Jesus Gonzalez's diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa is located in the southwestern state of Guerrero, where gangs fight over drug production and trafficking as well as access to Pacific ports such as Acapulco. The violence used to be even wors...

The boat capsized on Saturday night near the coast of the northern city of Tripoli, the departure point for a growing number of people attempting a potentially lethal sea escape from crisis-hit Lebanon. "The search is ongoing by the Lebanese navy w...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday said his country will not abandon its commitment to supply Spain with gas despite a diplomatic row with the European country over Western Sahara.

More than 4,600 French voters in Shanghai are unable to cast their votes due to the imposition of a lockdown in China's largest city. Shanghai is currently battling China’s  biggest-ever COVID-19 outbreak.

Ukraine's second city has been pummelled by strikes day and night since Russian forces attempted to seize it at the start of the invasion. The bitter fighting has rendered the city of 1.5 million a tangle of blown-out shops and smouldering apartmen...

French voters have began casting their ballots in the presidential run-off between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. FRANCE 24's Shirli Sitbon reports from Paris.

Polls opened earlier in France’s overseas territories, where almost three million French reside. The first vote was cast on Saturday midday Paris time by a 90-year-old man in the territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the northern coast of Can...