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In pictures: Halloween stampede in Seoul leaves over 150 dead  

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Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country’s biggest lake from bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency on Monday raised its toll of flood deaths by another 24. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountains have brought floods …

Israeli air raids on Friday killed at least 10 people, including a commander of the Islamic Jihad group, as fears of an all-out war on Gaza again gripped the besieged Palestinian territory. Multiple blasts could be heard and seen throughout Gaza. Israeli reconnaissance drones could be heard hovering over the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, saying it was necessary as the West was preparing to invade Russia.

In pictures: Al-Amiri receives mourners with a heavy heart for the loss of “Al-Ansari”

Pictures | The heroes of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (Al-Hashed Al-Sha’abi – PMF) from the operations of “Solid Will” in Anbar province  

Muslims are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, during which those fasting must refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk

Climbers dressed as Santa Claus abseiled down the outside of a Ljubljana children’s hospital to spread Christmas cheer. The abseiling Santas, from a local cave rescue association, waved and danced for patients and staff.

The death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has reached at least 146, and the governor of an island province especially hard-hit by Typhoon Rai said there may be even greater devastation that has yet to be reported. Gov. Arthur Yap of Bohol province in …

The death toll from a typhoon that slammed into the Philippines rose to 12 on Friday, and its president feared it could climb further as authorities assess the devastation caused by one of the strongest tropical storms to hit the country this year. President Rodrigo Duterte said he would visit …

Three people were killed and six are still missing after a gas explosion late on Saturday caused several residential buildings in the Sicilian town of Ravanusa to collapse, Italian authorities said on Sunday. Two apartment blocks in the town of 11,000 people were completely destroyed and several other buildings had …

A devastating swarm of tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states, killing more than 70 people in Kentucky and leaving a trail of destroyed homes and businesses along a path that stretched more than 200 miles, officials said on Saturday. At least four tornadoes touched down overnight in parts of Kentucky, …

Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces purify an area of 14 km² in Diyala Governorate during a security operation.

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Large crowds protesting election fraud heads to the Green Zone in Baghdad

Demonstrators protesting the results of the Iraqi parliamentary election have set up sit-in tents near the heavily fortified Green Zone, downtown the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, earlier today, Tuesday. Leading Shia parties in Iraq have announced their collective rejection of the results of the October 10 parliamentary elections, after the initial …

The Electoral Festival in Iraq Photography: Ali Al-Gharabawi