Guatemalan police said on Saturday (Oct 9) they had rescued 126 mostly Haitian migrants abandoned inside a shipping container as they hoped to travel to Mexico and on to the United States.

An L-410 plane crashed near a city in Tatarstan region on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring seven, the RIA news agency cited the emergency services as saying.

Iraq closed its airspace and land border crossings on Sunday as voters headed to the polls to elect a parliament that many hope will deliver much needed reforms after decades of conflict and mismanagement.

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of Covid-19 vaccines authorized by US regulators or the World Health Organization,

The United States and Mexico agreed Friday to overhaul their fight against drug trafficking to address the root causes and step up efforts to curb cross-border arms smuggling.

The International Criminal Court on Friday said it cannot rule on a prosecutor’s request to resume a war crimes investigation of Afghanistan until it can decide who represents the country in international bodies.

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Ten people, including three Bangladeshis, were wounded in a drone attack on a civilian airport in the Saudi city of Jeddah that was blamed on Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels, official media said yesterday.

The UN Human Rights Council has recognised access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to the global fight against climate change and its devastating consequences.

Facebook on Friday said users around the world again had problems accessing its services for hours due to a tweak of its system, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion.

A US delegation was scheduled to start a two-day meet with senior Taliban representatives in Doha yesterday in their first face-to-face meeting at a senior level since Washington pulled its troops from Afghanistan and the hardline group took over the country, two senior administration officials told Reuters.

A populist billionaire prime minister at odds with the European Union who featured in the Pandora Papers was tipped to win a tight two-day Czech general election wrapping up on Saturday.

Guards shot dead six migrants at an overcrowded Tripoli detention facility on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, the latest violence against migrants following mass arrests in recent days.

Latin America’s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 1.5 million Friday, according to an AFP tally drawn from official figures.

Cases of depression and anxiety surged by more than a quarter globally during the first year of the pandemic, especially among women and young adults, a major study showed on Saturday.

Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan said on Friday he expected to finalise a free trade agreement with the European Union by the end of next year, despite the EU’s anger over Canberra’s cancellation of a submarine contract with France.

Over 100 people are dead or missing after nine interlocked canoes sank this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said yesterday.

The Chilean public prosecutor’s office on Friday opened an investigation into President Sebastian Pinera over the sale of a mining company through a firm owned by his children, which appeared in the Pandora Papers leaks.

China will make the protection of nature a priority and crack down on damage to habitats, the government said in a policy paper days before it hosts talks aimed at drawing up a new global biodiversity treaty.

Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital yesterday aged 88, the official news agency IRNA said. “After a long illness,