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Vladimir Putin will be the odd one out when leaders from the BRICS economic bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in Johannesburg this week.

The incident happened in Magaluf

The two suspects police in Spain were hunting over the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old British tourist in Magaluf have been arrested in France.

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A former neonatal nurse who killed seven babies in her care and tried to kill six others at a hospital in northern England was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of release by a judge who highlighted “the cruelty and calculation” of her actions.

Greta Thunberg took part in her last school strike after graduating in June but the movement has grown well beyond her first solo protest.

The prime minister paid over EUR80 for a group of Italian dine-and-dashers who had left a restaurant in Berat, Albania, without covering the bill.

Tens of millions of people in France sweated through a late summer heatwave on Monday, with record temperatures expected in the wine-growing Rhone valley region and a forest fire also blazing in the southeast.

Top international judoka impress fans in Zagreb on the final day of the Judo Grand Prix

‘He’s suing the state because he has been in an extreme isolation for 11 years, and has no contacts with other people except his guards.’

Wildfires in Greece and the Canary Islands, caused by heatwaves across Europe, have led to the evacuation of villages as experts warn of more high temperatures

High levels of water pollution in the Seine River caused two swimming events to be cancelled over the weekend, after two others successfully went ahead on Thursday and Friday. A year ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, organisers say there is no Plan B for swimming events set to be held in the river.

Heatwave conditions have raised temperatures to dangerous levels in northern Africa and Europe.

The Luna-25 probe, Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the Moon after an incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.

Tens of thousands forced to flee as wildfires continue to rage on the Spanish island of Tenerife and in Canada’s North West Territories

Barbara Matic and Lara Cvjetko, the country’s two most decorated judo athletes, seeded 1 and 2 at the event, meeting in the final.

Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people and left more than 100 wounded on Saturday, according to authorities. Reporting from Chernihiv, FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze says the attack came just as many residents were leaving church on the Orthodox holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

The military-ruled state is known for sometimes violent religious and ethnic intolerance, as well as restrictions on freedom of press and speech.

A former French army chief in charge of restoring Paris’s emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating 2019 fire has died during a mountain hike, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday.

A new study showed that artificial intelligence (AI) can estimate a healthy individual’s age from a chest radiograph.

William Lima and Jessica Pereira both fought hard to take home gold for their country at day one of the Judo tournament in Croatia.

Hundreds of firefighters have been responding to the blaze on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife as extreme weather brings a 40-degree heatwave to Switzerland

A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific killer of children.

A theatre festival in the Estonian border city of Narva is showcasing the contemporary issue of free speech with participating countries from Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Ukraine.

Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) wants Poles to vote on four key topics, including migration, border security, the retirement age, and the privatisation of state companies.

A bloody rivalry between two drug gangs in Marseille on France’s Mediterranean coast has claimed the lives of dozens of people this year, targeted in brazen attacks sometimes carried out by teenagers, according to police.