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An attack on a military base in western Niger has left more than 70 soldiers dead and another 12 more wounded.

Police in New Zealand are finalising a plan to retrieve bodies from the volcanic White Island on Friday, despite the risk of another eruption.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in India's northeastern states to protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill.

Debris believed to be from a cargo plane that crashed this week with 38 people aboard has been found.

Voting has begun in the UK for the country's general election that will determine whether the nation stays or leaves the European Union.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected allegations that her country’s armed forces committed genocide against the Rohingya minority.

The air quality in the Indian national capital plummeted to the "severe" category after remaining in the "very poor" level for the past seven days.

At least one person has been killed and more than 60 others injured after five gunmen attacked the main US military base in the Afghan city of Bagram.

Efforts to recover the bodies of eight people who went missing following the volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island have been delayed again.

The US has imposed sanctions on five South Sudanese officials over their alleged links in the murders of two human rights activists in 2017.

A thick layer of bushfire smoke has blanketed Sydney, pushing air quality 11 times higher than considered "hazardous".

Police in Hong Kong have deactivated two homemade nail bombs that were found hidden at a local school.

New Zealand police will launch a criminal investigation into the deaths and injuries following a volcanic eruption at a popular tourist spot.

Six people have been shot dead after a man launched an attack in a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday.

A Chilean Air Force plane carrying 38 people has disappeared en route to Antarctica.

A volcano has erupted on New Zealand's White Island, leaving five people dead and more than 40 unaccounted for.

Eleven French nationals have been deported from Turkey as part of a programme to extradite "foreign terrorist fighters".

Rail links across the Italian city of Florence have been disrupted following an earthquake on Monday morning.

US President Donald Trump warned that North Korea's Kim Jong-Un could "void" their "special relationship" after reports of an "important" missile test.

Finland’s transport minister, Sanna Marin, has been selected to be the country's Prime Minister, making her the world's youngest state leaders.

Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to have two separate entrances - one for families and women and another for unaccompanied men.

At least 43 people have been killed when a fire broke out at a luggage manufacturing factory in the Indian capital city of Delhi.

Artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall that sold last week for a staggering $120,000 (around AED 440,760) has been eaten by a performance artist.

Four people have been killed and two more injured in a shooting near Mexico's National Palace.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced his determination to see through his government's planned pensions reform, despite criticism.

North Korea has carried out a "very important" test at a launch site that US officials once said Pyongyang had promised to close.

At least 14 people have been killed and dozens others injured during protests in Iraq.

The victim of a recent stabbing in London has been confirmed as an Omani student.

All four men suspected of raping and killing a woman veterinarian in the Indian city of Hyderabad have been killed in a police encounter.

A 34-year-old British hiker was revived in Spain after a six-hour cardiac arrest, in what doctors described as an "exceptional case".

An Egyptian Air Force fighter jet crashed on Thursday due to a technical malfunction during a training sortie.

Nineteen crew members of an oil tanker have been abducted by pirates off Nigeria.

A three-story building in the southern Polish ski resort of Szczyrk collapsed on Wednesday following a gas explosion, leaving five people dead.

Russia has expelled a Bulgarian diplomat in what is believed to be a retaliatory move after Sofia declined a visa to Russia's incoming defence attache.

French public transport networks ground to a near halt on Thursday as millions of workers go against President Emmanuel Macron's planned pension reforms.

At least two people have been wounded after a US Navy sailor opened fire at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii.

A migrant ship capsized off the coast of Mauritania on Wednesday, leaving at least 57 people dead.

US President Donald Trump has called Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau "two-faced" after footage emerged of world leaders mocked him.

At least six people have been killed after gunmen targetted their vehicle in eastern Afghanistan.

North Korea's Kim Jong-Un rode a horse up Mount Paektu, for the second time in less than two months, hinting at a more confrontational stance with the international community.

Australian police have found the remains of a woman believed to be that of a hiker who went missing in the outback more than two weeks ago.

California Senator Kamala Harris has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race in the US, citing a lack of funds.

South Korean pop star and actor Cha In Ha has been found dead at the age of 27.

A polar bear in Russia has been spray-painted with 'T-34' in black on its sides.

New Zealand will reduce the limit for overseas donations from AED3,581 to AED78.99.

North Korea has officially opened a new town hailed as one of the country's most important construction projects.

Debris of India's moon rover that crashed on the lunar surface in September has been found by Nasa.

Around 200,000 people have been evacuated after a typhoon struck the Philippines.

A second person who had become stranded in the Australian outback two weeks ago has been found alive.

Thousands of people are being evacuated from their homes in the Philippines as a rare December typhoon edges closer.

The 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) begins this week in Madrid.

Malta's Prime Minister has announced that he will be resigning in the new year.

At least 14 people have been killed in the city of Hantoukoura in Burkina Faso.

A plane crash in the US state of South Dakota has left nine people dead.

Maltese multi-millionaire Yorgen Fenech has been charged with complicity in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

A shootout in a Mexican town near the US border has left four police officers and 10 suspected cartel gunmen dead.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Friday's stabbing attack on a shopping street.

The man who carried out Friday's stabbing attack at London Bridge had served a jail term for terrorism offences.

Students and retirees have joined forces to keep up the momentum of the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, a day after police withdrew from a university campus.

Facebook has issued a correction note on a user's post at the request of the Singapore government after they had labelled it "fake news".

Without offering any proof, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has accused Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio of financing deliberate fires in the Amazon rainforest.

The Taliban have announced their readiness to restart peace talks with the US, a day after President Donald Trump's surprise visit to Afghanistan.

K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon have been sentenced to six and five years in prison for sexual crimes.

The French army on Friday clarified that the IS terror group was not responsible for bringing down two of its helicopters in Mali this week.

Three men have been sentenced in Australia for plotting bomb attacks on Christmas day in Melbourne’s Federation Square in 2016.

North Korea on Thursday fired two short-range missiles off its east coast, as the deadline for denuclearisation talks with the US draws to a close.

China warned the US that it was ready to take "firm countermeasures" after President Donald Trump signed a law supporting pro-democracy protesters.

At least three WHO health workers have been killed and several more injured after two Ebola response centres in eastern Congo came under attack on Thursday.

A facebook user has been handed a nine-year jail term in Vietnam for post 'anti-government' comments.

Authorities in France have started to move migrants from an illegal camp in northern Paris.

South Korea will shut down a quarter of its coal-fired power plants starting December, in a bid to limit air pollution.

Rescue workers have retrieved three more bodies after searching through the wreckage, taking the death toll from the Albania earthquake to 25.

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck northwest of the Greek island of Crete on Wednesday.

Seven members of a banned militant group have been handed death sentences in Bangladesh for their role in the 2016 cafe attack that left 22 people dead.

The first 16 remains of the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain last month have been repatriated to Vietnam.

A volunteer firefighter in Australia has been charged for alleging lighting seven blazes during the nation's bushfire crisis.

The White House was briefly put on lockdown on Tuesday following reports of an airspace violation.

At least seven people have been killed and scores more feared trapped after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Albania early Tuesday.

A facebook user has been sentenced to a six-year jail term in Vietnam for his "anti-state" posts.

At least nine security personnel of Pakistan Navy have been killed after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a ditch.

At least 12 French soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash during an operation against terrorists in Mali.

Police in Australia have found a body believed to be that of missing British tourist Aslan King on the Victorian south coast.

Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 168 people, including military personnel, with suspected links to the Fethullah Gulen's network.

Pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong have made unprecedented gains in the district council elections, early results show.

A woman in Australia has been charged with murder after her two young daughters were found dead in a hot car.

Philippine troops on Monday rescued a couple, nearly two months after they were kidnapped by members of the Abu Sayyaf group from their beach resort.

Britain has agreed to take back 42 containers of plastic waste that had been illegally shipped to Malaysia.

More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter saying they feared for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange's health, saying he "could die in jail".

Rescue operations are currently underway to save 14,600 sheep after the cargo ship they were being carried on capsized off the coast of Romania.

In a first, Singapore has directed political leader Brad Bowyer to correct a Facebook post under the country's new "fake news" law.

At least five people have been killed and dozens more wounded after security forces opened fire on protesters in southern Iraq on Sunday.

Several people are feared dead after a passenger plane crashed in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday.

More than a million have cast their votes in Hong Kong's district elections viewed as a barometer of support for the anti-government protests.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been taken to hospital after experiencing chills and fever.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's North Island early Sunday.

Bolivian lawmakers have approved a bill that annuls the contested October 20 election, and paves the way for a new vote.

The mayor of the Colombian capital Bogotá has ordered a curfew amid continuing unrest that left three police officers dead in the city.

The death toll from a measles epidemic in the Pacific island of Samoa has risen to 20 as the outbreak rages out of control.

A handful of anti-government protesters continue to remain holed up in a university campus that has been under siege for more than a week.

Tesla has revealed its first-ever electric pickup vehicle called "Cybertruck" but the launch didn’t go as planned.

If you have come across reports of Cochin International Airport in the Indian state of Kerala being closed for runway maintenance, then that’s just a rumour.

Egypt will launch its first communication satellite into orbit on Friday.

At least eight protesters who had been holding out at a university in Hong Kong have surrendered to police.

A Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight bound for Manila made an emergency landing at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) shortly after taking off.