At least 48 people were killed when a truck apparently lost control and ploughed into other vehicles and pedestrians at a busy junction in western Kenya on Friday night, police said.
In Japan, a nation reputed for loyalty to companies and lifetime employment, people who job-hop are often viewed as quitters. And that's considered shameful. Enter "taishoku daiko," or "job-leaving agents".
In 2017, after a string of terrorist attacks, the government relented. Lawmakers passed a bill allowing officers to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops, even when the officers are not in immediate danger.
France said on Friday the coming hours would be decisive after three nights of riots since a police officer shot dead a teenager at a traffic stop in a working class suburb of Paris. The violence has plunged President Emmanuel Macron into the gravest crisis of his leadership since the Yellow Vest protests that started in 2018.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's political career was in tatters on Friday as Brazil's federal electoral court (TSE) barred the far-right nationalist from public office until 2030 for his conduct during last year's fraught election.
Pakistan's finance minister said late on Thursday that a staff level agreement for a crucial bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund was "very close" and expected in the next 24 hours. Islamabad is racing against time to unlock at least $1.1 billion under the lender's ninth review of a $6.5-billion Extended Fund Facility agreed in 2019. The programme expires on Friday.
Gunmen killed a member of Pakistan's minority Sikh community in an overnight attack in Peshawar. Claiming responsibility for the attack, IS said Manmohan Singh was a follower of a "polytheistic" Sikh sect.
Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the deadliest attack on the country this year, a war monitor said.
Cash-starved Pakistan has introduced a number of changes to its budget for fiscal year 2023-24 in a bid to revive the International Monetary Fund’s programme and secure a stalled $1.2 billion tranche, the country’s finance minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Saturday. Addressing the National Assembly, the minister said Pakistan and the IMF held detailed negotiations as a last effort to complete the pending ninth review.
The US Navy detected an implosion at the site where the submersible headed to the Titanic wreck site lost communication, and this information was immediately shared with the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard later confirmed that the submersible, called the Titan, suffered a "catastrophic implosion", killing all five crew members who were on board.
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif met IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in Paris on Thursday for release of halted funds ahead of the credit line’s expiry next week. The Paris pitch came amid claims back home that Shehbaz’s finance minister Ishaq Dar slapped a reporter who asked him questions on the stalled funds.
"A leak of liquefied petroleum gas... caused an explosion during the operation of a barbecue restaurant," state news agency Xinhua said of the Wednesday evening blast, citing the regional Communist Party committee.
Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic on Wednesday concentrated their efforts on a remote area of the North Atlantic where undersea noises have been detected, though officials cautioned the sounds may not have originated from the vessel.
A blast ripped through a street near Paris' historic Latin Quarter on Wednesday and rescuers were searching for two missing people feared buried under the rubble of a building that partially collapsed in the explosion. The explosion tore through Rue Saint-Jacques, which runs from the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral to the Sorbonne University, in the late afternoon, injuring at least 37 people, four of whom were fighting for their lives in hospital.
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival to the United States on an official state visit, John Kirby, NSC coordinator for strategic communications, said on Tuesday that Washington supported "India's emergence as a great power".
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing early Sunday on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding US-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge. Blinken was to begin two days of talks with senior Chinese officials in the afternoon. He is the highest-level American official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office.
An employer in the US must obtain an approved labour certification from the US Department of Labor (DOL) before they can file a green card petition for a foreign worker with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. He was allowed to leave court without conditions or travel restrictions and no cash bond was required. US magistrate judge Jonathan ruled that Trump was not allowed to communicate with potential witnesses in the case.
Despite the fact that he was the person mainly responsible for the death of more than half a million Syrians and the forcible displacement of 12 million people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month was welcomed back in the Arab League and was even given a red-carpet treatment.
A bus carrying wedding guests rolled over on a foggy night in Australia's wine country, killing 10 people and injuring 25, police said Monday. The 58-year-old driver was arrested and being held at a Cessnock police station and will be charged, police assistant commissioner Tracy Chapman said.
Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.