Eight people were dead and more than two dozen missing and feared deceased on Monday after a scuba diving boat caught fire and sank off the California coast, with passengers trapped below deck by the roaring blaze.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a rebellion by his own lawmakers today over his Brexit strategy, despite warning he would respond to any defeat by calling an early election.
Haiti's long-suffering population has faced an extra burden for more than a week: closed service stations and lines of motorists hoping to buy even a few drops of petrol during a fuel shortage that's getting worse.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper urged Iran on Wednesday to enter discussions with the United States in order to ease tensions in the Gulf region.
At least seven people were killed on Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a village football pitch where a game was being played in south Morocco, local authorities said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed with his US counterpart Donald Trump to continue cooperation on Syria's Idlib to avert new humanitarian crises, Ankara said on Wednesday.
Gunmen burst into a Mexican strip club in a hail of bullets and killed at least 28 people as they trapped revelers inside and started a raging fire, officials said on Wednesday.
An appeal opens on Wednesday in the case of 24 men convicted over the beheadings of two young Scandinavian women on a hiking trip in Morocco's High Atlas mountains last December.
The Gaza Strip was in a "state of alert" on Wednesday after explosions killed two policemen in the Palestinian enclave, authorities said.
Italy's president on Monday allowed an extra day for coalition negotiations, interpreted by some as a hopeful sign that a deal may be in the works weeks after the government collapsed.
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered US health care giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million in damages for its role in fostering the state's opioid addiction crisis.
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Tuesday said a drone that crashed in its Beirut stronghold at the weekend contained an explosive device weighing more than five kilogrammes (11 pounds).
Hundreds of new fires have flared up in the Amazon in Brazil, data showed on Monday, even as military aircraft dumped water over hard-hit areas and G7 nations pledged to help combat the blazes.
Tropical Storm Dorian intensified on Monday as it approached the Caribbean on a track that will take it near Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic by midweek, possibly at hurricane strength, US forecasters said.
Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a raid.
G7 leaders close their summit on Monday with discussion of world problems including the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest, but overshadowed by President Donald Trump's trade wars and questions over the group's unity.
French rescuers saved 22 migrants who found themselves "in difficulty" on the Channel overnight in their bid to get to Britain, French maritime authorities said on Sunday.
The United States is working to secure the release of two Canadians held by China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, calling their detention "arbitrary and unacceptable" after he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Canadian officials.
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