An alleged Turkish drone strike targeted a Yazidi militant group in Iraq’s Sinjar on Tuesday. Officials reported that three militants were killed in the attack, and one was wounded.
A new State Department report on religious freedoms finds China is one of the worst offenders worldwide. Other countries including Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan and India.
Early warning and preparedness was likely the reason thousands of lives were saved during Cyclone Mocha. The cyclone hit Bangladesh and Myanmar over the weekend.
Amnesty International says executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022 from a year earlier, with a significant rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Numbers in Saudi Arabia have tripled.
The owner and a manager of a scrap metal recycling plant have been sentenced to nine months in jail for safety lapses after a wall collapsed and killed five migrant workers in 2016.
Anti-nuclear activists protested in Tokyo Tuesday to stop Japan from releasing radioactive water from a damaged Fukushima power plant and into the sea.
Authorities and a police dog in Italy found more than three tons of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment from Ecuador. The shipment could have been worth $900 million in street sales.
A school bus and truck collision in Australia left six children seriously injured on Tuesday. Police said the bus was carrying as many as 45 children when it tipped over after being hit.
A rare and endangered seal has unexpectedly visited Israeli city Tel Aviv. The Mediterranean monk seal has caused media buzz after onlookers spotted the creature sunbathing on a beach.
An Argentinian tourist who was severely wounded in a May 12 machete attack in Mexico has died. The man died from his injuries at a hospital in Mexico City on Monday.
The CIA has launched a Telegram channel to recruit Russian spies disillusioned with the war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin. A video was posted Monday night.
Two tribes feuding over the ownership of a coal mine killed 15 people in the remote northwest region of Pakistan. The fighting erupted on Monday between the Sunny Khel and Zarghun Khel tribes.
At least 21 are dead and hundreds believed to be missing in Burma on Tuesday after Cyclone Mocha barreled into the coastline with 130 mph winds on Sunday.
Authorities in Venice are preparing to activate a mobile barrier meant to combat flooding. Residents in some Italian towns were forced to rooftops to evade the floods.
Ousmane Sonko, the main opposition leader in Senegal, had his rape trial postponed due to unrest linked to the case. Three people were killed in the unrest.
New legislation formally adopted by European Union countries will help reduce the 27 countries' ties to deforestation. The new rules ban the sale of products that fuel deforestation.
Russian media reported Robert Shonov, a former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Russia, is being held on a conspiracy charge at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow.
The Loafers Lodge in Wellington, New Zealand, had no sprinklers, and officials have not yet determined if fire alarms went off as the blaze started shortly after midnight.