Thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful storm triggered devastating flooding in Libya. The leader of the east Libyan government, which is not recognised internationally, said deaths "exceed 2,000". Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya specialist, told the BBC the death

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first-ever summit in 2019. Kim travelled to Vladivostok in his armoured train where the men spent two days enjoying folk dances, feasting on borscht and reindeer dumplings, and toasting the burgeoning

Hundreds of people stood in line for hours outside a blood bank in the central Moroccan city of Marrakech on Monday, some even passing out from the heat, but all of them determined do whatever they can for their country as it reels from the devastating earthquake that struck Friday

President Joe Biden has denied that the US is attempting to stem China's international influence, after signing a new historic deal with Vietnam. More than 50 years since the last American soldier left Vietnam, Mr Biden travelled to Hanoi to sign the agreement that will bring the

Rescuers in Morocco have stepped up efforts to find survivors of Friday’s devastating earthquake, aiming to reach some of the more remote areas of the Atlas Mountains, amid reports some villages have been flattened. The first foreign rescuers flew in to help after the North

At least 43 people were killed in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Sunday, according to a medical group. In a statement, Sudan's Doctors Syndicate said 55 people were also injured in the attack that targeted an open market in Mayo neighborhood in

Police deployed water cannons to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday, September 9, to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague,

Brazilian president says Russian leader will be invited to the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year. Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva (L) shakes hands with Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as they meet in Moscow May 14, 2010. Brazilian President Luiz

The Maldives appears headed for a run-off vote after the opposition candidate took a surprise lead over President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih but fell short of an outright majority in a hotly contested presidential election. The vote on Saturday is being closely watched by India and China,

At least two people have been killed in renewed clashes among Palestinian factions in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon as a ceasefire agreement agreed earlier was not honoured by the rival sides, state media reported. One person was killed in the fighting inside the Ein el-Hilweh

Defying all doomsday predictions the Group of 20 leaders managed to stitch together a consensus statement on the first of the two-day summit, even as deep divisions were on display with the watered-down stance on the war in Ukraine, experts said. In the lead-up to the G20 summit on

Rescuers searching for survivors dug through the rubble of collapsed houses in remote mountain villages of Morocco on Saturday, as armed forces were pressed into action in the wake of the country’s deadliest earthquake in more than 60 years. Authorities declared three days of

At least, 1037 people died in a powerful earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night, causing widespread damage and panic in Marrakech, a tourist Mecca, and several other cities, according to a new official report. The Moroccan Centre for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST)

At least 50 Myanmar junta forces were killed in the last four days as People’s Defense Force groups (PDFs) and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) continued to attack regime targets across the country. Incidents were reported in Sagaing, Magwe, Mandalay and Tanintharyi regions and

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing at least 632 people and injuring more than 300 in three provinces, damaging buildings and historic sites and blocking roads. Morocco's Interior Ministry said Saturday morning that many had been killed in the

The world is dangerously off course in meeting the Paris climate deal’s goals for reducing carbon pollution and boosting finance for the developing world, according to the UN’s first Global Stocktake of progress on the treaty. The 2015 Paris Agreement has successfully

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih is pulling out all the stops to win re-election. In the lead-up to Saturday’s polls, the 61-year-old has handed out deeds to plots of land that are yet to be reclaimed from shallow lagoons, promised a 40 percent wage hike for the

The African Union is to join the Group of 20 (G20) as a permanent member, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday as he inaugurated a leaders’ summit in New Delhi for the world’s wealthiest nations. In his opening speech, Modi invited the chair of the

World leaders have been gathering in India ahead of a G20 summit between nations that are divided on many issues, the biggest being the war in Ukraine following Russia's invasion. On Friday evening US President Joe Biden met his host, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the

A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck central Morocco, killing at least 296 people, the country's interior ministry says. The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5km, the US Geological Survey said. The