Several thousand Iraqis gathered near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Friday for a second day of protests against a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that outraged Muslims around the world.
Kenya's president, his deputy and other state officials are set to receive pay rises despite citizens facing deep economic hardship and higher taxes, according to a government document seen by AFP Friday.
The United States rejoined UNESCO on Friday, reversing its withdrawal during the Trump administration, the UN's cultural agency said.
South Africa's corruption watchdog on Friday absolved President Cyril Ramaphosa of allegations that he breached executive ethics in a farm cash scandal that spawned into one of the biggest storms of his career.
More than 1 billion surveillance cameras were installed worldwide by the end of 2021.
Pediatric organ donation is one of the rarest kinds of organ donations in the world since child deaths are far less common than adult deaths.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Friday that the government was considering "all options" to restore order, including declaring a state of emergency, after a third night of rioting over a police officer's killing of a youth.
An Indian court on Friday fined Twitter $61,000 after dismissing its plea challenging orders to remove tweets and accounts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
Almost a dozen bags containing dead and live snakes were discovered by a customs staff in a passenger's luggage at Cairo International Airport in Egypt.
The QCPD Novaliches Station called for other people who might have been victimized by Petras to come forward.
Images and videos purportedly showing the test flight of the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter with the new WS-15 jet engines have been circulating on social media.
OceanGate, the company that owned the doomed submersible, is still advertising future expeditions to the Titanic shipwreck deep in the Atlantic Ocean.
Police urged residents in the area "to remain calm and cooperative with the authorities."
A burned district office, another pelted with stones, "lots of looting": in Lille, in the north of France, a game of cat and mouse played out into the wee hours of Friday morning between authorities and protesters.
Although police said they would keep an eye on him, the ex-inmate stabbed a woman to death less than 10 days after he returned home.
A Russian political analyst said using nuclear weapons could prevent World War III and save humanity, even though it is a difficult moral choice.
Rumors claimed Putin's top general was arrested in connection to the Wagner group's recent armed rebellion.
The UN General Assembly on Thursday created an independent body to "clarify" the fate of thousands of people who remain missing in Syria since war broke out in 2011, overriding objections from Damascus.
The US Supreme Court set a tougher standard Thursday for companies to be able to claim "undue hardship" when requiring employees to work on religious holidays.
Negotiations between Ukraine and Poland for the transfer of the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) have reached an advanced stage, according to reports.
The European Union warned Thursday that Russia has become more dangerous after a brief mutiny by its Wagner mercenaries that the bloc said exposed President Vladimir Putin as weaker than previously thought.
Far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's political future hangs in the balance as a panel of seven judges weigh barring him from public office for years over attacks on Brazil's electoral system.
At a march for the French teen killed by police during a traffic stop earlier this week, protesters described simmering anger in the community over security forces that are widely perceived as aggressive and racist.
An undercover UK policing unit that spied on hundreds of campaign groups over decades should have been shut down as its tactics were unjustified, a report concluded on Thursday.
Mykyta lay in a hospital bed with cuts from shrapnel on his face and body after a Russian missile hit the restaurant where he was having dinner in Ukraine's eastern city of Kramatorsk.
Kyiv said Thursday its forces were gaining ground in Donbas, as Moscow claimed it had killed two generals in a missile strike earlier this week -- the same day strikes on a restaurant in east Ukraine killed at least 12 people.
The Kremlin said Thursday that footage, which could not be verified, apparently showing President Vladimir Putin greeting adoring supporters proved that he has "astounding" support after quelling an armed insurrection.
The UK government said it would challenge a court ruling issued Thursday that blocks its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, a set-back to its controversial bid to cut migrant numbers.
The latest U.N. drugs report showed that the average retail prices of cocaine in the Middle East are the highest worldwide.
An animal welfare organization filed a case against the two men.
