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China quake kills more than 100, rescue efforts dire amid freezing conditions A devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck rural Gansu province in north-west China, killing at least 105 people…

US Senator Ben Cardin ‘angry’ over Senate sex tape linked to aide US Senator Ben Cardin expressed his outrage after learning that a former aide allegedly featured in a sex…

French lawmakers and senators prepared to hammer out a compromise over a beleaguered immigration bill on Monday as President Emmanual Macron’s government hoped to salvage what is seen as a flagship reform of his second term. French authorities have been seeking to push through legislation to harden France’s immigration law, but members of the right-wing and left-wing opposition last week joined forces to vote down the draft law without even debating the measures. A mixed parliamentary commission consisting of seven upper house senators and seven lower house lawmakers was expected to meet from 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) Monday in a bid to thrash out a compromise text. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris Trent reports.

Her son was found tied up with ropes.

A volcanic eruption began on Monday night in Iceland, south of the capital Reykjavik, following an earthquake swarm, Iceland’s Meteorological Office reported.

Escape the crowds and head to this lesser-known spot.

With tourist bookings for the New Year in Portugal forecasted to break records, there’s never been a better time…

‘These were clear and coordinated actions of Russian anti-aircraft gunners, for which many thanks from the entire Ukrainian people.’

Though the hotel has not been used for years, it was intended to house more than 70 asylum seekers in the coming weeks.

President Aleksandar Vucic declared victory in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, after pollsters projected his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was on track to easily win.

The Red Arrows could soon be looking for a new home because the Middle East crisis is filling UK airfields with active warplanes, sources say.

Aleksandar Vucic decided to hold a snap election

After rejecting the chuch in my teens, my first service back in over 20 years felt like coming home.

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Italian cardinal Angelo Becciu was found guilty of financial crimes.

A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.

“This is the first cardinal to be prosecuted in a Vatican criminal court”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Rome, Italy, Seema Gupta.” Cardinal Angelo Becciu is the most senior Vatican official to face such charges; “the 75-year-old cardinal was a former advisor to Pope Francis, so he was somebody who would meet with the pope and he was seen as a papal contender”. 

Children are amongst those presumed dead.

‘Inmates who take care of cats truly care about their furry companions.’

A Christian mother and daughter were shot and killed and seven others wounded at the compound.

Pentagon officials have said that the US faces one of its “greatest challenges” yet as it tries to recruit more troops from Gen Z.

He has been described as ‘an individual in hiding’.

British teen Alex Batty expected back in UK in next few days Alex Batty is due back in the UK in the next few days after being found in France,…

There was only enough space for two of us to stand freely at one time. 

Alex Batty disappeared while on a holiday in Spain with his mum and grandad in 2017.