Along the road linking Bukavu to Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the marks of war remain stark and unmistakable following a series of offensives by the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels, who recently claimed they had taken control of the strategic city of Uvira.Charred

Hundreds of police officers hunted Sunday for a gunman who killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University, plunging the eastern US campus into lockdown.

The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security agency said in a joint statement that Ra'ad Sa'ad, head of the weapons production headquarters in Hamas' military wing, was killed.

Roughly 10 percent of high school students in Japan who have abused over-the-counter medication such as cough suppressants within the past year report using them several times a week or more, Kyodo News reported.

At least two people were killed and nine others wounded Saturday afternoon at Brown University in Providence, the US state of Rhode Island, campus officials said.

Sri Lankan authorities will reopen most tourist destinations and roll out a series of recovery measures to revive its tourism industry affected by Cyclone Ditwah, as the peak tourism season approaches, officials said.Deputy Minister of Environment Anton Jayakody informed journalists that the

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said that the United States had proposed creating a "free economic zone" in parts of the eastern Donbas region, which Ukraine would withdraw from under a negotiated peace with Russia.

Two US service members and one US civilian were killed in an ambush carried out by a lone Islamic State (IS) gunman in Syria, US Central Command said on Saturday.

At the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central CoAt the invitation of Deputy Prime

Thailand's military announced on Sunday the imposition of a curfew in parts of Trat Province, citing the ongoing situation along the border areas.

Christmas market opens in St. Petersburg for upcoming festive holidays

Flights between Phnom Penh and Bangkok as well as those between Siem Reap and Thailand are operating as normal although the Cambodia-Thailand border fighting is still going on, a Cambodian civil aviation spokesperson said on Saturday.

Russia will take swift retaliatory measures against the European Union's illegal freezing of Russian assets, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned on Saturday.

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Russia has completed the flight tests of four "Ionosfera-M" satellites, which are designed to study physical processes in the Earth's ionosphere, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced on Saturday.

Greek farmers on Saturday rejected a government invitation for talks, vowing to escalate protests that have disrupted traffic across the country for a third week.