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Violence receded Friday in the capital of the Solomon Islands, but the government showed no signs of addressing the underlying grievances that sparked two days of riots, including concerns about the country's increasing links with China.

The bars are shut in Vienna, and the Christmas market is empty in Munich, as several European nations tighten up or even lock down to combat a spike in coronavirus infections.

A fire at a coal mine in Russia's Siberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40 others on Thursday, with dozens of others still trapped, authorities said.

Thirty-one people, including five women and a little girl, died on Wednesday after their rubber boat capsized while crossing the English Channel from France to Britain, in the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the waters separating the countries.

Ethiopia’s prime minister has thrown himself onto the front lines as violence nears the capital city of Addis Ababa, the government announced Wednesday.

Hours after being tapped as Sweden’s prime minister, Magdalena Andersson resigned Wednesday after suffering a budget defeat in parliament and coalition partner the Greens left the two-party minority government.

A Russian rocket blasted off successfully on Wednesday to deliver a new docking module to the International Space Station.

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the coronavirus, three days after he received his booster shot.

China and Russia have bolstered their defense ties in a move to counter what they claim is a growing military threat from the U.S.

Three German parties have reached a deal to form a new government that will end the era of longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Olaf Scholz, who is poised to replace her.

A Chinese official slammed Western media and organizations for "maliciously hyping" tennis star Peng Shuai's situation in a rare comment by Beijing on the matter.

Daniel Hsu, a U.S. citizen, fought for four years to escape China.

Rudy Guede, the only person convicted in the 2007 murder of Amanda Knox's roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, was freed Tuesday after serving most of his 16-year prison sentence, his lawyer said.

New media guidelines released by the Taliban this week ban television shows from featuring female actors and require women journalists to wear the Islamic hijab.

China on Tuesday protested the passage of a U.S. Navy destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, calling it a deliberate move to undermine stability in the region.

Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds while in office, died Tuesday. He was 90.

Israel will not be bound by a new nuclear deal with Iran, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday.

A whistleblower who warned her bosses at the U.N. Human Rights office that China was getting information on dissidents coming to speak at the world body has been fired.

A bus crash in western Bulgaria early Tuesday has killed at least 45 people, authorities said.

Protesters marched through the Czech capital of Prague on Monday to decry the newly enacted government’s restrictions on unvaccinated people as new infections soared in the European Union nation.