In the northeastern border region of Kharkiv, a frequent Russian target, a missile strike on the town of Zmiiv killed one person and injured eight, including two children.
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A helicopter belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco crashed on Sunday in Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast west of the Strait of Hormuz, killing 14 nationals, the state news agency reported, adding that the cause was unknown.
Iraqi security forces arrested politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials early on Sunday in what security and legal sources described as the start of a broader anti-corruption campaign ordered by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.
The black plastic bracelet, worn like a watch, includes motion sensors that can detect accidental falls.
Serbia’s populist president Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he will resign within weeks and announced early presidential and parliamentary elections.
The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved mandated reading lists for public school children that include passages from the Bible – the latest effort by leaders there to infuse the education system with conservative and religious ideals.
The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called for independent investigations into deaths of people in U.S. immigration custody, saying that 19 people have died in detention so far this year.
Billionaire investor Leon Black told a U.S. congressional panel on Friday that he had no involvement or knowledge of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “heinous conduct.”
Parisians will be banned from drinking alcohol in public from midday onwards on Friday in order to try and curb the health issues arising from the heatwave gripping France and much of Europe, the head of the Paris police said on Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was at fault for a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran on February 28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.