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Hundreds of people were rescued from floods in Greece overnight and early on Thursday, officials said, as a new storm hit the country just weeks after floods left 17 dead. The fire service said it had assisted over 250 people in the region surrounding the central city of Volos, where a curfew was declared Wednesday […]

Six bodies were discovered Wednesday in an area of Mexico where seven teenagers were kidnapped days earlier, authorities said — the latest abduction of youths in the violence-plagued country. One of the missing was found alive but injured in the municipality of Villanueva in the northern state of Zacatecas, according to officials. The six bodies […]

Seven presidential hopefuls faced off Wednesday for the second Republican primary debate — with frontrunner Donald Trump bidding to steal the headlines despite spurning the showdown. Trump, 77, announced in August he would be skipping the debates, usually a staple of presidential nomination contests, because he has no need to waste time on his distant […]

The Ukrainian military on Thursday said that Russia had launched a “massive” drone attack overnight and that it had destroyed 31 out of the 39 aircraft. Russian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted over Black Sea coastal regions and further inland, said Nataliya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian southern military command. Russia “does not stop the […]

A Thai court on Thursday dropped murder charges against four national park officials over the disappearance of an environmental activist almost a decade ago, but jailed one on a lesser offence. It was the latest twist in a long-running legal saga after ethnic Karen leader Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, better known by his nickname Billy, went missing […]

Decades after the Nazis razed it to the ground, a 17th-century palace of kings and codebreakers in the heart of Warsaw will be resurrected by the Polish government for its symbolic value. “This spot which will return to Warsaw’s map is to be a proud reminder of what happened here,” said project spokesman Slawomir Kulinski. […]

Burkina Faso’s military government said Wednesday it had foiled a coup attempt the previous day, almost a year after the country’s leader came to power in a coup himself. In a statement read out on state television, it said “a proven coup attempt was foiled on September 26, 2023 by Burkina Faso’s intelligence and security […]

The US Congress was running out of time Tuesday to avoid a partial government shutdown forced by hard-right Republicans, with White House plans to provide another $24 billion in war aid for Ukraine at risk if a deal was to be reached. With just days left before the September 30 deadline, negotiations continued to seek […]

Slovak voters are being flooded with disinformation from home and abroad ahead of Saturday’s elections set to determine whether the country will change its foreign policy in Russia’s favour. The EU and NATO member of 5.4 million people has been under a barrage of online misinformation and disinformation for years, much of it coming from […]

Indonesia has banned goods transactions on social media platforms in a new regulation, its trade minister said Wednesday, as Jakarta aims to rein in direct sales on major platforms it says are harming millions of small businesses. Calls had grown in recent months for a regulation governing social media and e-commerce, with offline sellers seeing […]