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Ukrainian officials said Friday that Russia had launched a "massive" drone attack on its cities and infrastructure overnight, warning that Moscow could be escalating its strikes ahead of winter.

Joshua David, the national spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses of India, told International Business Times that the group has largely been able to practice their faith freely with a few isolated incidents of violence.

The blockchain firm announced that its native cryptocurrency XRP has been approved under the Dubai Financial Services Authority's virtual assets regime.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel Friday, an AFP correspondent travelling with him said, in a trip focused on measures to minimize harm to civilians in the war in Gaza.

An Australian woman appeared in court Friday accused of murdering her inlaws with a toxic mushroom lunch and attempting to kill her estranged husband four times.

With a bunch of roses in his hand, Yuriy quickly climbs aboard the train to embrace his wife.

Day 28 of Israel-Hamas tensions saw the Israeli army surrounding Gaza City as it continues to confront other enemy attacks on the Lebanon border. A Hamas official said the militant group was "now ready" for a full compromise with Israel to release more than 200 hostages.

Myanmar's junta chief said the military will strike back at ethnic armed groups waging an offensive in the north of the country, seizing towns and blocking trade routes to China, state media reported Friday.

Colombia will cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a small herd imported by deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, the country's environment minister said Thursday.

A NASA astronaut who was removed from the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission but helped bring its crew back home safely thanks to his problem-solving efforts from ground control has died at the age of 87.

An Australian woman accused of killing her parents-in-law with a toxic mushroom lunch on Friday appeared in court, where she faces three counts of murder and a string of other charges.

The once bustling streets of Jerusalem's Old City have fallen eerily quiet, with the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas keeping away tourists and their much-needed cash.

The owner of X Elon Musk on Thursday predicted the future with AI would be an "age of abundance" with a "universal high income" instead of a universal basic income but warned of "humanoid robots" that might chase humans.

US President Joe Biden is calling for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict that would involve a "temporary, localized" cessation of hostilities -- well short of a general ceasefire -- a senior White House official said Thursday.

One year after a deal to end the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, there were global calls Thursday for more to be done to protect civilians and ensure justice for victims of atrocities.

Lebanon's Hezbollah said it attacked 19 Israeli positions along the border simultaneously Thursday, prompting a "broad" retaliatory assault, on the eve of a speech by the Iran-backed group's leader on the Israel-Hamas war.

Russia on Thursday rejected comments from Ukraine's most senior military official that their nearly two-year conflict had reached a stalemate, as Kyiv said fighting around a key town had eased.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a "united, sustained, global" strategy to tackle the risks posed by artificial intelligence's rapid development, as world leaders met in the UK.

When Israeli mother Maayan Zin scrolls through her phone, she sees her worst nightmare and her only glimmer of hope as she desperately awaits news of her two young daughters, believed held hostage by Hamas.

Five people were killed by falling trees as Storm Ciaran battered Western Europe on Thursday, bringing record winds as high as 200 kilometres per hour, floods, blackouts and major travel disruptions.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was set Thursday to lay out the case for deeper economic ties with the Asia-Pacific region, ahead of an expected summit between the US and Chinese presidents.

Iranian prison authorities have blocked 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi's hospital transfer for urgently needed care over her refusal to wear the compulsory hijab, her family has said.

Australian police charged a woman with murder Thursday over a mushroom meal that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.

When he was barely a teenager, Kenyan goatherder Lisoka Lesasuyan lost both arms to an unexploded bomb while crossing a field used in joint military exercises with the British army.

From Angola to Hong Kong, North Korea is rapidly shuttering its overseas embassies, as Pyongyang's economy sputters and Kim Jong Un embraces 'new Cold War' diplomacy with Russia, experts say.

Storm Ciaran battered northern France with record winds of nearly 200 km per hour killing a lorry driver as southern England remained on high alert Thursday and rail operators in several countries warned of traffic disruptions.

Hundreds more wounded and foreign passports holders hoped to escape war-torn Gaza on Thursday as Israeli forces bombed and fought intense ground battles with Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian territory.

More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since Islamabad issued an ultimatum to 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said Thursday.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a stimulus package worth more than $100 billion on Thursday as he tries to ease the squeeze from inflation and rescue his premiership with his poll ratings at a record low.