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At least two people were injured and several buildings evacuated after a fire broke out in a building near London’s Elephant and Castle train station on Monday afternoon. Smoke could be seen pouring into the sky from beneath the railway arches at the south London station and up toward large …

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a joint statement Monday, officially deciding to extend the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation. The announcement came during talks between the two heads of state via video link. Hailing the upcoming 20th anniversary of the signing of the …

Unknown armed assailants killed 18 people when they attacked a two-vehicle convoy in central Burundi over the weekend, government officials and witnesses said on Monday. The attackers, who struck at about 8 pm local time on Saturday, fired into the two cars before pouring petrol and setting them alight, a …

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has announced his resignation, no additional vote will be held, Radio Sweden reported on Monday. Lovfen reportedly asked parliament speaker Andreas Norlen to try to form a new government. “A snap election is not what is best for Sweden”, Lofven said. “The speaker will now …

European Union countries on Monday gave the final seal of approval to a law to make the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding, as EU policymakers prepare a huge new package of policies to fight climate change. Negotiators from Parliament and EU member states reached a deal in April …

Turkey and Azerbaijan started joint military drills in Azerbaijan on Monday, deploying tanks, helicopters, and drones, Russia’s RIA news agency reported, citing Azerbaijan’s defense ministry. Ankara last year backed Azerbaijan’s effort to drive ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they had controlled since the 1990s in and around …

German police are carrying out a helicopter search for a man who stabbed two passers-by in the eastern city of cearly on Monday morning, police said. The two victims, aged 45 and 68, were being treated in the hospital. Police described the attacker as being in his twenties, with light …

The official death toll from the partial collapse of a high-rise condominium complex near Miami rose to nine on Sunday, with more than 150 people still missing, as rescue teams picked through the rubble for a fourth day without detecting further signs of life.

Russia has successfully test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the country’s northwest, the TASS news agency reported on Monday, citing a source in the defence industry. The launch took place in mid-June, the source said.

An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country’s semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The insurgents used car bombs in the assault on a military base in Galmudug’s Wisil town, located in central Somalia, …

Germany will attempt to ban British travellers from the European Union regardless of whether or not they have had a vaccine, The Times reported on Monday. The German chancellor wants to designate Britain as a “country of concern” because the Delta variant of the coronavirus is so widespread, the newspaper …

The explosion took place in the evening at a building in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, and rescuers reached the scene, said Faisalur Rahman, a fire control room official.

The United States claims it has conducted airstrikes against three targets allegedly belonging to Iraqi resistance groups along with Iraq and Syria’s common border.

Indian police suspect explosive-laden drones were used to attack an air force base in Jammu city.

Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country’s tightly controlled state media, after watching recent video footage of Kim.

While Ankara claims the project will ease traffic in the Bosphorus, critics warn of dire environmental effects.

A helicopter carrying President Duque was shot near the Venezuela border on Friday.

Sydney goes into a two-week lockdown as Darwin implements a two-day stay-at-home order amid a surge in cases linked to the Delta variant.

About 5,000 families flee their homes from northern Kunduz city as Taliban fighters intensify attacks across the country.

More than a dozen people have sustained injuries as clashes broke out between Lebanese security forces and protesters in the capital Beirut and two major cities against deteriorating economic and living conditions.