Category: 4. World

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 have been found more than a century later on the country’s south-western coast.

The cheerful notes were penned just a few days into their voyage to join the battlefields of France…

The protest erupted after 47-year-old driver José Esqueche was shot on Monday night, dying on the way to hospital. It was the second killing of a driver in less than a week along the same route.

Angry drivers and residents demanded…

About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials…

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A seven-storey building has collapsed in the northwest Turkish city of Gebze, with five members of the same family trapped under the rubble.

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US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff’s claim that Morocco and Algeria could achieve peace within 60…

An Israeli reservist soldier was killed in an attack carried out by Palestinian terror operatives against troops stationed in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military announced Wednesday morning.

The attack took…

The hometown of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been hit in attacks by explosive-laden drones, the governor of the northwest Mexican state of Sinaloa said on Tuesday.

Authorities did not specify when the strikes on Badiraguato,…