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At least 50 people were killed and several women and children abducted after armed men attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a state lawmaker told Reuters on Friday. Hamisu A Faru, lawmaker representing Bukkuyum south, said the attackers raided Tungan Dutse village from around 5pm on Thursday until about 3:30am on Friday, burning down buildings and shooting residents ...

Eight backcountry skiers were confirmed killed and a ninth was presumed to have perished when their tour group was overtaken by a football-field-sized avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains on Tuesday, in the deadliest US avalanche in 45 years, authorities said. Six survivors were rescued after search teams on skis fought through blinding snow, darkness, treacherous terrain and gale-force winds ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday promised $10 billion for a new “Board of Peace,” an amorphous new institution focused first on Gaza that is being launched just as he threatens Iran with war. While US warplanes and aircraft carriers headed toward Iran on his orders, Trump welcomed some two dozen allies from around the world to the gleaming Washington building ...

Ukraine’s NABU anti-corruption force said Sunday it arrested the country’s former energy minister German Galushchenko — who resigned last year during a massive corruption scandal — as he tried to cross Ukraine’s border. “Today, while crossing the state border, NABU detectives have detained the former Minister of Energy as part of the ‘Midas’ case,” the NABU said in a statement, ...

Nepali candidates launch their campaigns on Monday for next month’s parliamentary elections, the first since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the previous government in 2025. “This election will draw the future of the country,” Sushila Karki, who is serving as interim prime minister until the 5 March vote, said ahead of the launch. The youth-led protests were triggered by a brief ...

Israeli authorities have planned to restrict Muslims’ access to al-Aqsa Mosque for prayers during the upcoming Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a well-known Muslim scholar and former grand mufti of Jerusalem said in an interview with Anadolu. Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, expressed regret for the Israeli administration’s ...

The death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests last month has reached at least 7,002 people killed with many more still feared dead, activists said Thursday. The slow rise in the number of dead from the demonstrations adds to the overall tensions facing Iran both inside the country and abroad as it tries to negotiate with the United ...

Federal prosecutors failed to bring charges Tuesday against six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse illegal orders, outraging President Donald Trump, who had called for jail time, US media reported. Sources told the New York Times and the Washington Post that a federal grand jury — composed of local citizens in Washington — denied the Justice Department’s attempts ...

Ten people, including a suspected shooter, are dead after a shooting in Tumbler Ridge, in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Tuesday, CBC News reported. Six people were found dead inside a high school, two more people were found dead at a residence that police believe is connected to the incident, and another person died on the way to ...

Australian leaders on Tuesday urged calm and called on protests to remain peaceful after clashes between police and demonstrators opposing Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia erupted in Sydney. Police said 27 people were arrested, including 10 for allegedly assaulting officers, after violence broke out on Monday evening when police moved in to clear thousands of protesters who had ...