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Jordan carried out strikes on southern Syria in “retaliation” for last week’s deadly church attack , with Syrian authorities saying at least seven people were killed in the country. Jordan's armed forces said they hit the hideouts of armed groups responsible for the attack on a church in Karak on Friday that killed nine Christians. "The operation was conduct

Syria closes border crossings with Jordan after air strikes kill seven people in Deraa and Suweyda, including children.

Night GTA cities have elected new mayors as the results of municipal elections are in across Ontario. Mississauga elected Alvin Tedjo, beating out incumbent Carolyn Parrish and Bonnie Crombie while the long-serving mayor was ousted in Milton. Tom Dingwall beat incumbent Adrian Foster in Clarington. Long-time Hamilton politican Andrea Horwath finished a dista

The death toll in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza climbs to 74,555, including 1,559 killed since 'ceasefire' last year.

Police are searching for a gunman after a mass shooting in Tallahassee happened near Florida A&M's campus. At least 11 people were shot, some of them children.

Church mourners die on Kenya’s Nairobi-Mombasa Highway weeks after another crash killed 17 people.

Pistons center Jalen Duren, who signed a five-year extension earlier this month, will be out at least two weeks with a right hamstring strain.

Mr. Halappa said farmers in Hosanagara, Sagar, Sorab, Shivamogga Rural and Ripponpet, among other places in the district, were facing disruptions in power supply

Authorities say at least 12 people were injured, including six children, in a shooting near a football stadium in Tallahassee on homecoming weekend for Florida A&M University

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Nigerian police say a large group carried out the attack on Binnari village in Taraba State.

Police said a number of students at five to six schools engaged with the tutor.

Seven more Irish boxers could earn medals in quarter-final bouts on Saturday in Montenegro

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The blast occurred in a house where firecrackers were being made; rescue operations under way

Jordan's King Abdullah II vowed the "harshest retaliation" after gunmen carried out a deadly attack on a church.

Survivors say two masked men began shooting as dozens attended a funeral procession.

Gunmen have opened fire inside a church in Jordan with at least seven people killed and dozens injured.

At least six people were killed when unknown gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan 's Karak governorate on Friday, a relative of one of the deceased told The National . Petra News Agency confirmed details of the shooting that took place at a funeral for a woman in Hamoud, a Christian village north of Karak. The Public Security Directorate

President Nicușor Dan said the incident was part of Russia’s “escalation” of the war in Ukraine.

<p>KHUZDAR: At least 12 passengers were killed and around two dozen injured when a minibus and a passenger coach collided head-on near Zero Point in Uthal on the Quetta-Karachi Highway in Balochistan on Friday, police said.</p> <p>According to police, the coach was travelling from Gwadar to Karachi, while the minibus was heading from Bela to Karachi.</p> <p>

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, as continued attacks underscored the fragility of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that ha...

At least 16 people have been killed and 46 injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northern Tibet.

<p>Search and rescue efforts under way after quake strikes region’s north, with at least seven aftershocks recorded</p><p>A magnitude-7 earthquake has hit Tibet, killing at least 16 people, injuring 54 and destroying hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media have said.</p><p>Search and rescue efforts continued after at least 33

A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake has struck Tibet in southwestern China, official media reported. Chinese state TV said it's the strongest quake to hit the remote Himalayan region in five years.

Number injured after magnitude 7 quake ⁠struck ⁠the southwestern region of China's Tibet has risen.

It was the biggest earthquake in the region in the last five years, China's national broadcaster CCTV said.

At least four Palestinians were killed and several others wounded Thursday in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials said, as renewed a...

Some 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave since beginning of US-brokered ceasefire one year ago

The deaths include two women found drowned in a cellar in the Bouches-du-Rhône region.

At least two people were killed and eight others wounded in a late-night attack on Saudi Arabia’s Dammam airport, the civil aviation authority said Thursday, as Houthi strikes from...

Intel has installed the first major structural truss at its delayed Ohio chip fab, but the company has yet to announce a major outside customer.

A drone strike on a fuel depot in a disputed region on the Sudan-South Sudan border has killed at least 153 people.

A drone strike by the Sudanese Armed Forces on a fuel depot in the disputed Abyei region, on the border between Sudan and South Sudan, has killed at least 153 people, official sources said on Wednesday. Three diplomatic sources, an aid worker and a conflict expert, told Reuters that the strike hit a fuel depot that had previously been used by the Rapid Suppo

South Sudan authorities say Sudan's army launched drone attack on market, as MSF says it is treating 20 wounded people.

The French armed forces say that a fighter jet has crashed in eastern France, killing at least one person

Houthi rebels killed at least 53 Yemeni government soldiers in a ballistic missile strike on a military camp Monday, one of the deadliest attacks since fighting surged this summer,...