More than 1.76 million people have been affected by severe flooding in China’s northern Shanxi province, according to local media. Torrential rain last week lead to houses collapsing a... Read more

Some 216,000 children have been sexually abused by members of the French Catholic clergy since 1950, an independent inquiry has found. It warned that the number could rise to 330,000 when ab... Read more

For decades the crimes of a notorious serial killer have haunted the Paris crime squad. But now a former military police officer is said to have confessed to being the murderer known as... Read more

Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives. Since March 2020, Australia has had some of the world... Read more

At least 116 people are now known to have died in a fight between rival gangs in Ecuador’s jail, officials say, making it the worst prison violence in the country’s history. At l... Read more

Fresh tensions have surfaced between Britain and France over post-Brexit fishing rights. In the latest round of applications, the UK granted just 12 licences from 47 bids for smaller vessels... Read more

Top US General Mark Milley has warned al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan could threaten the US in as little as 12 months. The Taliban had not broken ties with the group responsible for 9/11... Read more

General elections scheduled for November in Haiti have been postponed indefinitely after the country’s prime minister dismissed all members of the body which organises elections. Prime... Read more

Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats have narrowly beaten the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel in federal elections, according to preliminary results. SPD leader Olaf Schol... Read more

The US is to donate 500 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine to developing nations. President Joe Biden will make the pledge at a virtual Covid-19 summit on the sidelines of the UN Gener... Read more

The UK’s refusal to recognise the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine has triggered a firestorm of protests in India. With more than 721 million doses administered so far, C... Read more

Former US President Donald Trump is suing his niece and the New York Times over a 2018 article that alleged he was involved in “dubious tax schemes”. The lawsuit, filed in New Yo... Read more

The new Taliban mayor of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul has told female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man. Hamdullah Nomany said the Taliban... Read more