Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising risk
Thai court to decide suspended prime minister's fate
South Korea's kimchi makers are in serious pain - brought low as a climate change-induced shortage of cabbages sent prices rocketing this year, exacerbating damage inflicted by cheaper offerings from Chinese competitors.
A human rights defender said at least one HIV-positive individual has already been sent to a Russian collection point.
The Vatican on Thursday acknowledged that it had secretly disciplined East Timor bishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carlos Ximenes Belo two years ago, responding to allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor decades before.
A group of about 20 members of a fundamentalist Jewish sect escaped from a Mexican detention center in the southern state of Chiapas on Wednesday night, according to a Reuters reporter who filmed the incident.
Hurricane Ian brings fear to Florida, leaving destruction in its wake
Ukraine offensive defies Russia's annexation plan
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on companies it accused of involvement in Iran's petrochemical and petroleum trade, including five based in China, pressuring Tehran as it seeks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The top commander of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group, which is exploring a resumption of peace talks with the leftist government, told Reuters any process must seek profound change for all of society and not political power for a few guerrilla commanders.
Brazil presidential battle enters home stretch
Italy will spend around 13 billion euros ($12.62 billion) less this year in European post-COVID recovery funds than it previously targeted, a Treasury document showed, underscoring the country's problems in implementing investment programmes.
Queen Elizabeth II died of 'old age': death certificate
EU grapples with runaway energy prices
Crowds build for reopening of Windsor Castle
Finland closing border to Russians with EU tourist visas
Divisive nationalism has dominated campaigning for Bosnia's presidential and parliamentary elections on Oct.
Finland said on Thursday it would close its border to Russian tourists at midnight, shutting off the last remaining direct land route to the European Union for them as thousands of Russians seek to avoid conscription into the war in Ukraine.
In a dry river bed in Kenya's arid northwest, pastoralists dig ever-deeper pits in an anxious search for water, as the region suffers its worst drought in 40 years, which has wiped out livestock and crops, deepening a hunger crisis.
Iran targets celebrities, media over Mahsa Amini protests
BBC to cut hundreds of jobs at World Service
The incident took place Wednesday in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, the police said.
Cuba had restored power to some neighborhoods of the capital Havana by early on Thursday, according to Reuters witnesses and official reports, but vast swaths of the Caribbean island nation still remained in the dark following the passage of Hurricane Ian.
Vadym Boichenko, Mayor of Russian-occupied Mariupol, warned that the Russian army could mobilize about 10,000 residents and urged the city's male population to flee.
The child was admitted to the Maternal and Child Hospital in Nigeria over cough and catarrh.
Kremlin announces Ukraine annexation ceremony for Friday
"(H)eart health for everyone is a fundamental human right and a crucial element of global health justice.": World Heart Federation.
Czech police chasing a vanload of migrants fired warning shots on Thursday as they began checks on the border with Slovakia to combat a sharp rise in people, mostly Syrians, heading illegally to western Europe.
The specter of hunger hangs over Brazil's presidential race this year like few before it.
Iran arrests reporter who covered Amini funeral: lawyer
