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Ten newborn babies have been killed after a fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, authorities said. The fire broke out at a hospital in Jhansi city in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Officials…

Former Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras has been expelled from the ruling New Democracy party over his persistent criticism of government policies. Mr Samaras, 73, a hard-line nationalist, has criticised Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s approach to negotiations with Turkey, which…

A woman’s body has been found in the boot of a car in east London, Northamptonshire Police have said. Detectives said a murder inquiry has been launched into the “suspicious” discovery in Ilford. Superintendent Steve Freeman said the woman, who…

Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings that demonstrators stormed to protest new measures allowing Russians to buy property in the area. Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania announced that he would…

Russian engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defences as cover for a horrific new weapon, an investigation has found. A factory at Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone recently started churning out thermobaric drones alongside the…

Residents in northern Serbia stopped traffic and stood in silence to commemorate the 14 victims of a railway roof collapse two weeks ago and demand accountability for the tragedy. Dozens of protesters on Friday held a large black banner and…

South Africa’s government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an official strategy against illegal mining.…

Police and hundreds of demonstrators have clashed in Georgia’s separatist region of Abkhazia as tensions flared over a proposed measure that would allow Russians to buy property there. The protesters gathered outside parliament in the regional capital of Sukhumi on…

At least 10 people died in a fire at a retirement home in Spain before firefighters managed to extinguish it, local authorities have reported. Authorities were alerted to the blaze early on Friday morning in Villafranca de Ebro, around 28…

A top Iranian official held talks with Lebanese leaders on the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah, which came as the US continued actively pushing both sides to agree to a new ceasefire deal. The visit of Ali Larijani, an…